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We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores …
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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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Mastery learning - the process by which students must demonstrate proficiency with a single topic before moving on - is … implement it into a classroom setting. This study evaluates a program to encourage greater mastery learning through technology … coaching in how to use Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) for helping students follow a customized roadmap of incremental …
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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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To help first- or second-year graduate students in economics apply their theoretical training, this paper shows how to solve a simple and intuitive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model using a calculator. Because this simplified Harberger model uses Cobb Douglas functional forms for...
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-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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Uttar Pradesh, Pratham volunteers implemented high-intensity, short-burst "learning …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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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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High-dosage tutoring is an effective way to improve student learning (Nickow et al., 2024; Guryan et al., 2023 … and staffing. One possible solution is to reduce costs by substituting some tutor time with computer-assisted learning …
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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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