A Randomized Trial on Educational Inputs in Kenya

肯尼亚教育投入的随机试验

• 批准号: 9511347
• 负责人: Michael Kremer
• 金额: $ 16.36万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-11-01 至 1998-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9511347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Randomized; Trial; Educational; Inputs; Kenya

9511347 Kremer There have been many retrospective statistical studies of the effect of educational inputs on school performance. However, these retrospective studies will be biased if schools with different educational inputs systematically differ in other, unmeasured ways which are correlated with school performance. For example, schools with better physical facilities may also typically have parents who are more advantaged or more committed to education, and this parental input, rather than the physical facilities themselves, may be responsible for the correlation between test scores and physical facilities. This project conducts a randomized trial which can overcome many of the statistical problems of past studies. The project carries out one of the first randomized trials on educational inputs and school performance. The trial is based on the work of International Christian Humanitarian Services, (ITS), a Kenyan GO. ITS provides selected rural primary schools with textbooks, exercise books, uniforms, classroom construction, desks, and medical services. The investigator will randomly assign a group of candidate schools to either a control group or treatment group. Schools in the treatment group will receive both educational and medical services from ITS. Schools in the control group will receive medical services in return for participating in the program and cooperating with their monitoring and evaluation efforts. The project compares the change in text scores and dropout rates between the two groups. Since different components of the assistance package will be provided in different years, and will affect different classes of students, the investigator should be able to separately assess the impact of the different inputs. The project also examines whether the impact of the additional resources differs with students gender or socio-economic status, or with teachers training and pedagogic techniques.

小行星9511347 关于教育投入对学校成绩的影响，有许多回顾性的统计研究。 然而，如果不同教育投入的学校在与学校表现相关的其他不可测量的方面存在系统性差异，这些回顾性研究就会有偏见。 例如，学校有较好的物理设施，也可能有典型的家长谁是更积极或更承诺 父母的投入，而不是物质设施本身，可能是考试成绩和物质设施之间相关性的原因。 该项目进行了一项随机试验，可以克服过去研究中的许多统计问题。 该项目进行了关于教育投入和学校表现的首批随机试验之一。 该审判是基于国际基督教人道主义服务组织（ITS）的工作，这是一个肯尼亚的GO。 ITS为选定的农村小学提供教科书、练习本、校服、教室结构、课桌和医疗服务。 调查人员将随机分配一组候选学校到对照组或 治疗组。 治疗组的学校将获得ITS的教育和医疗服务。 对照组的学校将获得医疗服务，以换取参与该计划并配合其监测和评估工作。 该项目比较了两组学生的文本分数和辍学率的变化。 由于一揽子援助计划的不同组成部分将在不同年份提供，并将影响不同班级的学生，调查员应能够分别评估不同投入的影响。 该项目还审查了额外资源的影响是否因学生性别或社会经济地位或教师而异 培训和教学技术。