A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea
Early grade literacy skills are crucial for children's future education and ultimately their contribution to human capital formation and economic development. A significant challenge in development is identifying low-cost interventions to impr...
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okr-10986-298332021-06-08T14:42:46Z A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea Macdonald, Kevin Vu, Binh Thanh HUMAN CAPITAL RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL LITERACY PRIMARY EDUCATION COST EFFECTIVENESS TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS TEACHER TRAINING READING SKILLS Early grade literacy skills are crucial for children's future education and ultimately their contribution to human capital formation and economic development. A significant challenge in development is identifying low-cost interventions to improve early literacy skills in contexts characterized by varying teacher ability and severe budget constraints. This paper evaluates the impact of Papua New Guinea's randomized Reading Booster Programme, which was conducted in Madang and Western Highlands Province in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The program provided teachers with training on a highly structured teaching method that they could apply one hour per day within the teaching time allocated to reading. Using the randomized assignment of schools into the program, the paper shows that it had a substantial impact on the reading skills targeted by the program for third grade students, ranging from 0.6 to 0.7 standard deviation. Large effects on other reading skills were found for girls but not boys. The program's cost per student was approximately US$60. 2018-05-15T20:22:27Z 2018-05-15T20:22:27Z 2018-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/247501525353958692/A-randomized-evaluation-of-a-low-cost-and-highly-scripted-teaching-method-to-improve-basic-early-grade-reading-skills-in-Papua-New-Guinea http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29833 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8427 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Papua New Guinea |
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Early grade literacy skills are crucial
for children's future education and ultimately their
contribution to human capital formation and economic
development. A significant challenge in development is
identifying low-cost interventions to improve early literacy
skills in contexts characterized by varying teacher ability
and severe budget constraints. This paper evaluates the
impact of Papua New Guinea's randomized Reading Booster
Programme, which was conducted in Madang and Western
Highlands Province in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The
program provided teachers with training on a highly
structured teaching method that they could apply one hour
per day within the teaching time allocated to reading. Using
the randomized assignment of schools into the program, the
paper shows that it had a substantial impact on the reading
skills targeted by the program for third grade students,
ranging from 0.6 to 0.7 standard deviation. Large effects on
other reading skills were found for girls but not boys. The
program's cost per student was approximately US$60. |
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Macdonald, Kevin Vu, Binh Thanh |
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Macdonald, Kevin Vu, Binh Thanh |
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Macdonald, Kevin |
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A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea |
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A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full |
A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea |
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A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea |
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A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea |
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randomized evaluation of a low-cost and highly scripted teaching method to improve basic early grade reading skills in papua new guinea |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2018 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/247501525353958692/A-randomized-evaluation-of-a-low-cost-and-highly-scripted-teaching-method-to-improve-basic-early-grade-reading-skills-in-Papua-New-Guinea http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29833 |
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