Can teaching be taught? Improving teachers' pedagogical skills at scale in rural Peru

Quantitative Economics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1), P. 185 - 233

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

We evaluate the impact of a large‐scale teacher coaching program in Peru, context with high turnover, on teachers' pedagogical skills and student learning. Previous studies find that small‐scale programs can improve teaching reading science developing countries. However, scaling up reduce programs' effectiveness, turnover erode compliance cause spillovers onto non‐program schools. develop framework defines different treatment effects when is present, explains which be estimated. this program, exploiting random assignment program's expansion to 3797 rural schools 2016. After two years, teachers assigned increased their aggregate by 0.20 standard deviations. The also learning; after 1 year, Grade 2 students' mathematics scores 0.106 0.075 deviations (of distributions those test scores), respectively. three cumulative effect increases slightly, 0.114 0.100, One reason why these impacts are low some uncoached moved into treated years 3. Following our framework, we estimate students having “fully” coached for all 0.18 0.16 comprehension,

Language: Английский

Can Hybrid Teacher Coaching Improve Student Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from Secondary Schools in Mexico

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский