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.39 and 0.23 standard deviations, respectively, after four years. We also identify important gender learning gaps with boys …
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Pratham's approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach …Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over …-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO …
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We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0.13 standard deviations. The effect is still present three...
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We investigate learning at the workplace. To do so, we use German administrative data that contain information on the … methodology builds on the observation that a competitive labor market prices coworker learning. Our quantitative approach imposes … and flexible coworker learning functions. In line with our reduced form results, learning from coworkers is significant …
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Pratham's “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …-organizing instruction based on children's actual learning levels, rather than on a prescribed syllabus, and has previously been shown to be … of this process, two versions of the programs were developed that successfully raised children's learning levels using …
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Education officials often use one assessment system both to create measures of student achievement and to create performance metrics for educators. However, modern standardized testing systems are not designed to produce performance metrics for teachers or principals. They are designed to...
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women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …
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multitask model of teaching. The intervention is more scalable and cost effective than most policies aimed at improving teacher …
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We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...
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complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …
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