A5063919411- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- School Choice and Performance
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Educational Assessment and Pedagogy
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Education and Technology Integration
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Student Assessment and Feedback
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Diverse Scientific Research Studies
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Human Rights and Development
- International Development and Aid
Pratham
2008-2024
Macquarie University
2023
London School of Economics and Political Science
2020
Effective Intervention
2020
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2020
ASTER
2017-2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008-2016
Wadsworth Public Library
2016
National Bureau of Economic Research
2016
IIT@MIT
2016
Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their quality. We conducted randomized evaluation three interventions encourage beneficiaries' participation India: providing information on existing institutions, training community members testing tool for children, and volunteers hold remedial reading camps. These had no impact involvement, teacher effort, or learning outcomes inside school. However, third intervention, youth...
The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation a specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts—to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out potential constraint this agenda results from small “proof-of-concept” studies run by nongovernment organizations may not apply to policies can be implemented governments on large scale. After discussing issues, paper describes...
Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant gains.In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts scale up the NGO Pratham's approach teaching children according their actual level, in four Indian States.While was previously be extremely effective when implemented with community volunteers outside school, objective these new scale-up evaluations develop model could...
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a national citizen-led rapid assessment children's ability to read simple text and do basic arithmetic. ASER designed facilitated by the Indian nongovernment organisation Pratham, has been conducted every year since 2005 partner organisations in rural district India, reaching more than 600,000 children annually. differs from most other international large-scale assessments several key respects, such as use household rather school-based sampling...
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation a specific program helps us — possibly after several rounds fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out potential constraint this agenda results from small, NGO-run “proof-of-concept” studies may not apply policies can be implemented by governments on large scale. After discussing issues, paper describes journey original...
The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation a specific program helps us-possibly after several rounds fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts-to inform policy.However, critics have pointed out potential constraint this agenda results from small "proof-of-concept" studies run by nongovernment organizations may not apply to policies can be implemented governments on large scale.After discussing issues, paper describes journey...
Using a randomized field experiment in India, we evaluate the effectiveness of adult literacy and parental involvement interventions improving children's learning. Households were assigned to receive either (language math) classes for mothers, training mothers on how enhance their learning at home, or combination two programs. All three had significant but modest impacts childrens math scores. The also increased mothers' test scores both language math, as well range other outcomes reflecting...
Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children’s current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts scale up the NGO Pratham’s approach teaching children according their actual level, in four Indian States. While was previously be extremely effective when implemented with community volunteers outside school, objective these new scale-up evaluations develop model...
Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their efficiency. In India, current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents children enrolled schools into committees gives these groups power over resource allocation, management school performance. However, baseline survey we found that people were not aware existence potential for education. This paper evaluates...
India's programme for universalisation of elementary education, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), is regarded as largest such in world. Over last five years, impressive strides have been made improving infrastructure, ensuring access, bringing out-of-school children into mainstream education system and appointing teachers. In next phase SSA, until 2012, focus needs to shift retention quality, which are interlinked. Children's learning achievements can be improved significantly through...