On the effect of relative-performance feedback

Last registered on September 27, 2019
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
On the effect of relative-performance feedback
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004791
Initial registration date
September 26, 2019

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First published
September 27, 2019, 11:09 AM EDT

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Locations

Country
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Gwen-Jiro Clochard
Affiliation
CREST - Ecole polytechnique
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Mahmoud Farrokhi-Kashani
PI Affiliation
Université Paris I
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PI Name
Guillaume Hollard
PI Affiliation
CREST - CNRS
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2011-03-01
End date
2011-06-30
Keywords
Education
Additional Keywords
Relative performance feedback
JEL code(s)
D83, D84, D91
Secondary IDs
Abstract
We use Relative Performance Feedback to students in Iranian schools to check theoretical predictions of two models.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Clochard, Gwen-Jiro, Mahmoud Farrokhi-Kashani and Guillaume Hollard. 2019. "On the effect of relative-performance feedback." AEA RCT Registry. September 27. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4791-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Providing rankings in addition to individual grades to the treatment group, only individual grades in the control group.
Intervention Start Date
2011-04-01
Intervention End Date
2011-06-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Test scores
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Two schools, selected to be comparable after a pilot study.
Randomization at the school level.
Students did not know whether the test was part of an experiment.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Coin flip between the two schools.
Randomization Unit
School level
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
2 schools, 3 classes by school
Sample size: planned number of observations
174 pupils, 91 in the control group, 83 in the treatment
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
1 control school, 1 treatment school.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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