Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19

This note discusses early results from a distance education program on foundational numeracy for primary school students in Nepal during Coronavirus (COVID-19) evaluated in a randomized trial. The trial included 3,700 households with children in pu...

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Main Authors:	Radhakrishnan, Karthika, Sabarwal, Shwetlena, Sharma, Uttam, Cullen, Claire, Crossley, Colin, Letsomo, Thato, Angrist, Noam
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	REMOTE LEARNING CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT SCHOOL CLOSURE NUMERACY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/906101626938488506/Policy-Brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36031

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spelling	okr-10986-360312021-09-09T22:20:26Z Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19 Radhakrishnan, Karthika Sabarwal, Shwetlena Sharma, Uttam Cullen, Claire Crossley, Colin Letsomo, Thato Angrist, Noam REMOTE LEARNING CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT SCHOOL CLOSURE NUMERACY This note discusses early results from a distance education program on foundational numeracy for primary school students in Nepal during Coronavirus (COVID-19) evaluated in a randomized trial. The trial included 3,700 households with children in public school (grades 3-5). It provided support for foundational numeracy through mobile phone-based tutoring. The trial tested delivery through public school teachers and also through NGO facilitators. It led to a 30 percent increase in foundational numeracy, with teachers being slightly more effective at producing learning gains than NGO facilitators. These results suggest that instructional support through mobile phones can be a high-access and low-cost approach to providing instruction at scale 2021-07-28T17:29:14Z 2021-07-28T17:29:14Z 2021-07 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/906101626938488506/Policy-Brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36031 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief South Asia Nepal
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spellingShingle	REMOTE LEARNING CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT SCHOOL CLOSURE NUMERACY Radhakrishnan, Karthika Sabarwal, Shwetlena Sharma, Uttam Cullen, Claire Crossley, Colin Letsomo, Thato Angrist, Noam Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19
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description	This note discusses early results from a distance education program on foundational numeracy for primary school students in Nepal during Coronavirus (COVID-19) evaluated in a randomized trial. The trial included 3,700 households with children in public school (grades 3-5). It provided support for foundational numeracy through mobile phone-based tutoring. The trial tested delivery through public school teachers and also through NGO facilitators. It led to a 30 percent increase in foundational numeracy, with teachers being slightly more effective at producing learning gains than NGO facilitators. These results suggest that instructional support through mobile phones can be a high-access and low-cost approach to providing instruction at scale
format	Brief
author	Radhakrishnan, Karthika Sabarwal, Shwetlena Sharma, Uttam Cullen, Claire Crossley, Colin Letsomo, Thato Angrist, Noam
author_facet	Radhakrishnan, Karthika Sabarwal, Shwetlena Sharma, Uttam Cullen, Claire Crossley, Colin Letsomo, Thato Angrist, Noam
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title	Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19
title_short	Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19
title_full	Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19
title_fullStr	Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed	Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19
title_sort	remote learning : evidence from nepal during covid-19
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/906101626938488506/Policy-Brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36031
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Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19

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