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This paper studies the impact of a computer-assisted learning program on learning outcomes among high school students …
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.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …
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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 …
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, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was … the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school …-based management intervention plus a monetary grant was not enough to improve learning outcomes. First, the schools in the evaluation …
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International Reading Literacy Study. The paper then moves on to untangle how disruptive learning environments can have negative … impacts on student learning outcomes. Thus, the objective of the paper is to analyze the determinants associated with … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …
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This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children … led to an increase in child labor, which is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers, however, induced a … impacts of child labor on learning …
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In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education … effectiveness of learning interventions, one in "equivalent years of schooling" and another in the net present value of potential … intervention increases learning by the equivalent of between 0.6 and 0.9 year of business-as-usual schooling. The results further …
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new design is based on the concept of the learning environment as a third teacher. The smaller footprint of the new …
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corroborative evidence of selective attention as an inhibitor to learning …
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finds that the global level of schooling and learning will fall. COVID-19 could result in a loss of between 0.3 and 0 … adversely affected by the school closures. Globally, a school shutdown of 5 months could generate learning losses that have a … the goal of halving the percentage of learning poor and be unable to meet the goal by 2030 unless drastic remedial action …
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