Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …

One cannot fully understand the nature of learning to teach through a cognitive approach. Teacher educators should … used in teacher education research to explain social aspects of learning to teach. The participants are fifteen senior pre …

. Then, we conduct a field experiment with nearly 150 3-5 year old children and their parents, measuring (1) whether child …

We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small …-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with traditional "lecturing" within standardized … lesson-plans. After six months, active learning has a positive effect on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to …

We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small …-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …