Zanzibar : Can Goal-setting and Incentives Improve Student Performance?
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded an evaluation that measured how two different incentive approaches affected the academic performance of grade 9 students in Zanzibar (Tanzania). The first approac...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/762451552558715438/Zanzibar-Can-Goal-setting-and-Incentives-Improve-Student-Performance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33701 |
| Summary: | The Results in Education for All
Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded an
evaluation that measured how two different incentive
approaches affected the academic performance of grade 9
students in Zanzibar (Tanzania). The first approach allowed
students to set personal goals at the beginning of the
school year regarding their performance by the end of the
year. The second approach combined this goal-setting
exercise with non-financial rewards such as certificates or
in-kind prizes for students who met their goals. These
approaches were designed to answer the following questions:
(i) whether students setting goals for themselves has any
effect on their performance in school and (ii) whether this
effect is strengthened when combined with non-financial incentives. |
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