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Trial Status in_development on_going
Trial End Date January 31, 2026 March 31, 2026
Last Published September 19, 2025 10:20 AM January 27, 2026 05:10 AM
Experimental Design (Public) This study employs a cluster randomized controlled trial with classrooms as the unit of randomization. Randomization is stratified by school, grade level (JSS1 vs JSS2), and mathematics teacher using computer-generated random assignment with a pre-specified seed. This stratification approach ensures balanced allocation across key prognostic factors and prevents potential confounding between teacher effects and treatment effects. Classrooms are randomly assigned to either: (1) Treatment arm receiving access to an AI-powered mathematics tutoring platform in addition to standard instruction, or (2) Control arm receiving standard mathematics instruction only. This study employs a cluster randomized controlled trial with classrooms as the unit of randomization. Randomization is stratified by school and grade level (JSS1 vs JSS2) using computer-generated random assignment with a pre-specified seed. This stratification approach ensures balanced allocation across key prognostic factors and prevents potential confounding between teacher effects and treatment effects. Classrooms are randomly assigned to either: (1) Treatment arm receiving access to an AI-powered mathematics tutoring platform in addition to standard instruction, or (2) Control arm receiving standard mathematics instruction only.
Planned Number of Clusters 81 sections (44 JSS1, 37 JSS2) across 12 schools 48 sections (16 JSS1, 32 JSS2) across 12 schools
Planned Number of Observations Approximately 4,000 students Approximately 2,000 students
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms 40 control and 41 treated 24 control and 24 treated
Power calculation: Minimum Detectable Effect Size for Main Outcomes Using a two-level classroom-cluster design with α=0.05 (two-tailed), power=0.80, ICC=0.15, 81 clusters, average cluster size=30, 50/50 allocation, and covariates explaining 50% of within-cluster variance (baseline maths and English) and 40% of between-cluster variance, the MDES is 0.203 SD on the student-level standardised mathematics score Using a two-level classroom-cluster design with α=0.05 (two-tailed), power=0.80, 48 clusters, average cluster size=30, 50/50 allocation, and a conditional ICC of 0.07, the MDES is 0.257 SD on the student-level standardised mathematics score
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