The Democratic Republic of Congo : Can Incentives to Take Home Textbooks Increase Learning?
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded an evaluation that measured the effectiveness of both financial and non-financial incentives at the student, classroom, and school levels in the Democratic Republ...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/470391550764820499/The-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo-Can-Incentives-to-Take-Home-Textbooks-Increase-Learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33537 |
| Summary: | The Results in Education for All
Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded an
evaluation that measured the effectiveness of both financial
and non-financial incentives at the student, classroom, and
school levels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A
new classroom routine was designed to encourage all grades 5
and 6 students to take home a classroom textbook and use it
to study for a weekly quiz. Students and schools were
incentivized to adopt the routine through a combination of
both financial incentives at the group level and
non-financial incentives at the individual level. These
incentives were implemented by Cordaid (Caritas
Netherlands), a Dutch NGO that has operated an RBF project
in the South Kivu region of the DRC since 2008. The
evaluation found that the incentives given to encourage
students to take home textbooks raised their French language
test scores by 0.27 to 0.30 standard deviations (SD) but had
no significant impact on math test scores. |
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