Distance Education for Teacher Training: Modes, Models, and Methods.

M Burns - Education Development Center, Inc., 2023 - ERIC
This publication is the new edition of EDC's popular 2011 guide by the same name,
completely revised to include lessons learned over the last decade, including the massive …

Nurturing childhood curiosity to enhance learning: Evidence from a randomized pedagogical intervention

S Alan, I Mumcu - American Economic Review, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We evaluate a pedagogical intervention aimed at improving learning in elementary school
children by fostering their curiosity. We test the effectiveness of the pedagogy using …

Teacher autonomy: Good for pupils? Good for teachers?

J Jerrim, A Morgan, S Sims - British Educational Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Should teachers have complete autonomy over teaching methods and practices, or should
some aspects of their practice be determined by school or government policy? We address …

[PDF][PDF] How can develo** countries address heterogeneity in students' preparation for school? A review of the challenge and potential solutions

AJ Ganimian, S Djaker - … , New York University. New York, NY, 2022 - jacobsfoundation.org
Over the past two decades, in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) have rapidly
expanded access to schooling by building new schools and making education more …

[HTML][HTML] Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya

P Jakiela, O Ozier, LCH Fernald, HA Knauer - Journal of Development …, 2024 - Elsevier
We provide evidence on the link between enrollment in public preschool and child
vocabulary, a critical precursor to early literacy. We measure early childhood development …

Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field

C Kirchgasler - Comparative Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article historicises the global education policy (GEP) field's developmentalism and the
psychological and political inequalities that it naturalises. Building upon de-and postcolonial …

The impact of combining performance-management tools and training with diagnostic feedback in public schools: Experimental evidence from Argentina

R de Hoyos, S Djaker, AJ Ganimian… - Economics of Education …, 2024 - Elsevier
Providing principals with low-stakes information on their students' test scores has been
shown to improve school management, instruction, and achievement in upper-middle …

Managing to learn

SA Beg, AE Fitzpatrick, A Lucas - 2023 - nber.org
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to
enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school …

Digital Interventions in the Health Sector–Country Cases and Policy Discussions

LX Wang, C Bloch - Available at SSRN 4576598, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This note discusses, through selected country case studies, how digital health records and
telemedicine can improve delivery quality, access to underserved populations, and resource …

Impact of technology-aided activity-based learning approaches on learning outcomes: Experimental evidence from community schools in rural Zambia

T de Hoop, H Ring, G Siwach, P Dias… - Journal of Research …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a multi-faceted program that integrates
technology-aided instruction, teacher training and coaching, community ownership, and free …