Teacher Training and Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Curriculum Reform in Rwanda

Last registered on July 20, 2018

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Trial Information

General Information

Title

Teacher Training and Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Curriculum Reform in Rwanda

RCT ID

AEARCTR-0001030

Initial registration date

February 11, 2016

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published

February 11, 2016, 5:30 PM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated

July 20, 2018, 6:48 PM EDT

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Country

Rwanda

Region

North, West, East provinces

Primary Investigator

Name

Todd Pugatch

Affiliation

University at Buffalo

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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name

Moussa Blimpo

PI Affiliation

World Bank

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Additional Trial Information

Status

In development

Start date

2016-04-01

End date

2018-12-31

Keywords

Education, Labor

Additional Keywords

entrepreneurship, business creation, teacher training, pedagogy, secondary schools, youth employment

JEL code(s)

I25, I28, J24, L26, O15

Secondary IDs

Abstract

At least ten countries across Africa, including Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Namibia, are currently undergoing secondary curriculum reforms to teach youth the skills they need to succeed after school. Yet many of these reforms are not effective due to implementation challenges, particularly the prevalence of traditional rote-memorization pedagogy. This study will examine pedagogy-targeted curriculum reform and teacher training in the delivery of Rwanda’s revised secondary school entrepreneurship curriculum, to be introduced in 2016. A subset of schools will be randomly selected to receive two years of ongoing teacher training on the curriculum. A control group will receive the curriculum only. The study will measure impact on student academic and life outcomes over a period of three years. The results will inform government efforts to implement competency-based curriculum reforms in secondary schools across Africa.

External Link(s)

J-PAL Post-Primary Education Initiative Project Description

Registration Citation

Citation

Blimpo, Moussa and Todd Pugatch. 2018. "Teacher Training and Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Curriculum Reform in Rwanda." AEA RCT Registry. July 20. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.1030-3.0

Former Citation

Blimpo, Moussa and Todd Pugatch. 2018. "Teacher Training and Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Curriculum Reform in Rwanda." AEA RCT Registry. July 20. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/1030/history/31988

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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

Intensive in-service teacher training on the secondary school entrepreneurship curriculum over two years. The training includes 10 days of teacher workshops spread throughout each year of the two year intervention, and a one-day administration workshop each year for two years. The training intensity is intended to go beyond standard one-time initial teacher trainings.

Intervention (Hidden)

The teacher training will center on the revised secondary school entrepreneurship curriculum. This curriculum, originally introduced in 2007, will promote student-centered pedagogy in its revised version in three distinct ways: 1) active, hands-on Scripted Learning Activities, which correspond to learning objectives, 2) Skills Lab Pedagogy that directs teachers to structure class time in a laboratory format, and 3) Student Business Clubs where students work in teams to start and run school-based businesses.

Intervention Start Date

2016-05-01

Intervention End Date

2017-12-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

student outcomes:
income
employment
business creation
cognitive skills
non-cognitive skills

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Cognitive skills: standardized test scores, grades, endline tests of entrepreneurship knowledge
Non-cognitive skills: self-efficacy, creativity

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Treatment: schools will be randomly selected to receive intensive in-service teacher training on the entrepreneurship curriculum over two years. The training includes 10 days of teacher workshops spread throughout each year of the two year intervention, and a one-day administration workshop each year for two years.

Control: A second set of schools will participate in the new entrepreneurship curriculum without intensive training in the entrepreneurship curriculum. Most teachers in control schools will not receive any in-service training. A subset (about 15%) of teachers in control schools will participate in a 5-day general orientation on changes in the broader curriculum.

Experimental Design Details

Randomization Method

Randomization of schools in office by computer random number generator

Randomization Unit

school

Was the treatment clustered?

Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

200 schools

Sample size: planned number of observations

3,000 students

Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms

treatment: 100 schools
control: 100 schools

Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)

MDE for outcomes measured in standard deviations (test size 5%, power 80%, intra-cluster correlation=0.2): 0.2 s.d. MDE for outcomes measured in proportions (test size 5%, power 80%, intra-cluster correlation=0.2): 0.1 (10 percentage points)

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