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School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students …' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …
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matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school ….25 (and 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …
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This study evaluates the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results from a two-phase randomized trial show that incentives for teachers led to modest average improvements in student achievement across different subjects. Further, withdrawing...
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attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …
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is to investigate the effects of the increase in the share of public upper secondary school teachers with higher …
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The time teachers spend teaching is low in several developing countries. However, improving teacher effort has proven difficult. Why is it so difficult to increase teacher effort? One possibility is that teachers are resistant to increasing effort because they do not believe their effort is...
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Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school … management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also … explain any observed relationship between school management and student learning. This paper introduces a new approach to …
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Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students …
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School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …
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