School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa …

learning were concentrated among initially better-performing schools and students. At the same time, learning outcomes may have … withdrawn, student performance did not fall below pre-baseline levels). Rather, impacts on learning were sustained beyond the … intervention period. However, these incentives may have exacerbated learning inequality within and across schools. Increases in …

School closures due to COVID-19 have left more than a billion students out of school. This paper presents the results … education could drop out due to the income shock of the pandemic alone. Students from the current cohort could, on average, face … adversely affected by the school closures. Globally, a school shutdown of 5 months could generate learning losses that have a …

This paper studies the impact of a computer-assisted learning program on learning outcomes among high school students …, including a written test, to build a credible counterfactual of comparable groups of control students. It used these data to … conduct a pre-analysis plan prior to students taking the high-stakes certification exam. The study later used the …

students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three …

In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education … method. In other words, over the course of a business-as-usual school year, students learn between 0.15 and 0.21 standard … difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the …

attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect of teacher subject content knowledge on student learning when panel … data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … worldwide, learning has stagnated; (b) girls outperform boys on learning-a positive gender gap-in contrast to a negative gender …