Quality Education for all Children: What works in Education in Developing Countries
This working paper by the
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) offers a systematic investigation into schooling outcomes, and analyses evidence from 75 studies across a range of school interventions. It looks at the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers on school enrolment and attendance, and finds that health interventions had a positive effect on attendance, while provision of new materials, such as computer-aided learning tools, significantly improved mathematics, reading and writing test scores. Other findings highlighted in the report are:
- Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) increase school enrolment and attendance, but have no overall impact on children’s test scores;
- school fees subsidies improve enrolment and progress in school, while merit-based scholarships improve learning; and investing in additional teachers, new schools, early childhood development programmes, community-based school management and school-feeding programmes boost schooling outcomes.
http://www.3ieimpact.org/media/filer/2013/09/10/wp_20.pdf
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