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Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not / Sabrin A. Beg, Adrienne M. Lucas, Waqas Halim, Umar Saif.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beg, Sabrin A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25704.
- NBER working paper series no. w25704
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- Using two RCTs in middle schools in Pakistan, we show brief, expert-led, curriculum based videos integrated into the classroom experience improved teaching effectiveness-student test scores in math and science increased by 0.3 standard deviations, 60% more than the control group, after 4 months of exposure. Students and teachers increased their attendance, and students were more likely to pass the government high-stakes exams. In contrast, similar content when provided to students on personal tablets decreased student scores by 0.4SD. The contrast between the two effects shows the importance of engaging existing teachers and the potential for technology to do so.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2019.
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