April 2022

Can Camp Get You Into a Better Secondary School? A Field Experiment of Targeted Instruction in Kenya

Access to quality secondary schooling can be life changing for students in developing contexts. In Kenya, entrance to such schools was historically determined by performance on a high-stakes exam. Understandably then, preparation for this exam is a priority for families and educators.

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Facilitating at-home practice using a common messaging platform: Can WhatsApp be used to strengthen at-home learning among early-childhood learners?

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Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: University of Utrecht Date: 2021-2022 Status: Analysis in progress Click below […]

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Spaced retrieval: Does distributed practice in lower-grade mathematics lead to better performance on summative assessments?

Posted in Analysis in progress

Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: University of Chicago; University of Utrecht Date: 2021-2022 Status: Analysis in […]

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Practice makes perfect? An analysis of the effects of repeated readings on oral reading fluency

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Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: University of Utrecht Date: 2021-2022 Status: Analysis in progress Click below […]

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Is phone-based teacher tutoring an effective and affordable low-tech pathway to improving foundational numeracy skills?

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Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: Noam Angrist (Young1ove; The World Bank); Peter Bergman (Columbia University) Date: […]

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Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls for Home Reading in Kenya

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Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: Anja Sautmann (The World Bank); Bruno Esposito (The World Bank) Date: […]

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A Case Study of Teacher Feedback and Responses to Mistakes in Bridge Kenya

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Grade 1 Classrooms Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: Maleka Donaldson (Smith College) Date: 2019 Status: Write-up […]

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Certificates and badges: Do low-cost classroom incentives motivate pupils to work harder and achieve better results?

Posted in Studies Underway

Context: Bridge Kenya Collaborators: Ronak Jain (Harvard University); Brandon Tan (Harvard University) Start Date: 2021 […]

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Can motivational behavioural nudges encourage teachers to improve lesson delivery in the classroom?

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Context: Bridge Kenya Date: 2019 Collaborators: Alex Eble (Columbia University) Status: Analysis and write-up in-progress […]

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Can a goal-setting curriculum be used to strengthen future-planning and high-stakes test performance?

Posted in Analysis in progress

Context: Bridge Uganda; Bridge Kenya Date: 2019; 2021-2022 Collaborators: University of Utrecht Status: Study complete […]

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