Transforming public schools: Impact of the CRI program on child learning in Pakistan

This paper evaluates the impact of teaching innovations, introduced in public primary schools under the Children Resources International (CRI) Program, on student outcomes. We estimate students’ learning based on their scores on standardized tests. We match schools and children within the treatment...

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Published inEconomics of education review Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 669 - 683
Main Authors Naseer, Muhammad Farooq, Patnam, Manasa, Raza, Reehana R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 01.08.2010
Elsevier
SeriesEconomics of Education Review
Subjects
Academic Achievement
Computation
Elementary Schools
Foreign Countries
Instructional Innovation
Learning
Outcomes of Education
Pakistan
Program Effectiveness
Public Schools
Scores
Standardized Tests
Student learning outcomes
Teaching innovations
Teaching innovations Student learning outcomes Pakistan
Pakistan
Teaching innovations
Student learning outcomes
Pakistan
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Summary:This paper evaluates the impact of teaching innovations, introduced in public primary schools under the Children Resources International (CRI) Program, on student outcomes. We estimate students’ learning based on their scores on standardized tests. We match schools and children within the treatment and comparison group and find that the CRI Program has been effective in raising learning achievement. Moreover, the results are robust to unobserved selection bias. The average gain for a CRI student represents an improvement of 0.40 standard deviations. The results stay unchanged when we use alternative estimators for the treatment effect including the bias-corrected estimator proposed by Abadie and Imbens (2006).
ISSN:0272-7757
1873-7382
DOI:10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.12.001