Student feedback, parent-teacher communication, and academic performance : experimental evidence from rural China
W Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei, Ho Lun Wong, Xiang Zhou
This study reports a randomized controlled trial to improve teacher-student-parent feedback, conducted in a rural county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old) over two school terms. We find that bi-weekly student feedbacks using our special scorecard of schoolwork and behavior improve mathematics results by 0.16 to 0.20 standard deviations, with 0.09 for language. Communicating these assessments also to parents produces further large mathematics benefits for young left-behind children, about 0.30 standard deviations. A low-cost investment in better feedback thus brings significant achievement gains especially for disadvantaged children.
Year of publication: |
February 2018
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Authors: | Siebert, William S. ; Wei, Xiangdong ; Wong, Ho Lun ; Zhou, Xiang |
Publisher: |
Bonn, Germany : IZA |
Subject: | student assessment | parent-teacher communication | academic performance | randomized controlled trial | rural China | China | Studierende | Students | Ländlicher Raum | Rural area | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement | Kommunikation | Communication | Experiment | Bildungsverhalten | Educational behaviour |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 47 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 11347 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/177151 [Handle] |
Classification: | C93 - Field Experiments ; I21 - Analysis of Education ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798258