Average vs. distributional effects: Evidence from an experiment in Rwanda
| Autor: | Minahil Asim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Kinyarwanda
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences Psychological intervention 050301 education Academic achievement Development language.human_language Literacy Education Developmental psychology Fluency Intervention (counseling) Reading (process) 0502 economics and business ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION language 050207 economics Set (psychology) Psychology 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Educational Development. 79:102274 |
| ISSN: | 0738-0593 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102274 |
| Popis: | Programs and policies in education overwhelmingly focus on improving the average academic achievement for students. However, educational interventions focused on literacy improvement can impact readers at different levels of the reading score distribution differently, and the distributional differences may be more pronounced by sex. In this paper, I explore data from a field experiment in a district in Rwanda that was intended to make classroom reading pedagogy more effective and engage students, families, and communities in reading activities outside of school to improve students’ reading outcomes. I study the distributional effects of the intervention on students on two higher-order reading outcomes – Kinyarwanda fluency and Kinyarwanda text comprehension, measured for students who met a basic literacy threshold. I find that a) the set of interventions had a positive and significant, albeit modest effect on students at or above the 25th percentile of the reading distributions b) the program had positive and significant effects on reading outcomes for girls only, and these effects differed along the reading achievement distribution. This work underscores the importance of tailoring programs and policies to the needs of different types of learners. |
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