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Trial End Date
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October 31, 2021
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October 31, 2022
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Last Published
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October 18, 2021 04:44 AM
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October 18, 2021 04:50 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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Based upon previous work, there are two primary interventions. The first intervention is a simple monitoring call, whereby bi-weekly calls will be made the primary school teacher(s), the primary school principal, the village chief and the head of the PTA for the school. The calls will ask each stakeholder if class (taught by that teacher for that particular level) was held that week, the number of days held.
The second intervention is a motivational intervention, which will be implemented in a subset of mobile monitoring villages. In this case, randomly selected teachers in monitoring villages will receive a "motivational" message at the end of the monitoring call, thanking them for their work and encouraging them.
The monitoring call will begin approximately 2 months after the start of the school year (January 2019, whereby the school year starts in October), and will occur every two weeks.
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Based upon previous work, there are two primary interventions. The first intervention is a simple monitoring call, whereby bi-weekly calls will be made the primary school teacher(s), the primary school principal, the village chief and the head of the PTA for the school. The calls will ask each stakeholder if class (taught by that teacher for that particular level) was held that week, the number of days held.
The second intervention is a motivational intervention, which will be implemented in a subset of mobile monitoring villages. In this case, randomly selected teachers in monitoring villages will receive a "motivational" message at the end of the monitoring call, thanking them for their work and encouraging them.
The third intervention is a series of pedagogical support calls, whereby teachers in select schools are provided with bi-weekly calls that provide pedagogical support to them in the area of math and reading.
The monitoring call will begin approximately 2 months after the start of the school year (January 2019, whereby the school year starts in October), and will occur every two weeks. The monitoring interventions will take place in 2019 and 2020, with pedagogical interventions in 2021/2022.
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Intervention End Date
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June 30, 2020
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June 30, 2021
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Experimental Design (Public)
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84 primary schools within the Tchadoua commune of the Maradi region in Niger will be stratified by rural and urban status and randomly assigned to one of three interventions:
1. Mobile calls. Weekly calls to targeted teachers, principal, village chief and the PTA president to ask questions about teacher attendance
2. Motivational message. In a subset of monitoring villages, teachers will receive a "motivational" message at the end of the bi-weekly monitoring call
3. Pure control. No weekly calls.
All monitoring visits conducted by the Ministry will occur normally.
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84 primary schools within the Tchadoua commune of the Maradi region in Niger will be stratified by rural and urban status and randomly assigned to one of three interventions:
1. Mobile calls. Weekly calls to targeted teachers, principal, village chief and the PTA president to ask questions about teacher attendance
2. Pedagogical calls
3. Pure control. No weekly calls.
A final, cross-cutting intervention (the motivational message) will be cross-cutting, whereby teachers will be randomly assigned to motivational messages within monitoring villages. Thus, a subset of teachers in monitoring schools will be chosen for this.
All monitoring visits conducted by the Ministry will occur normally.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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There will be 42 schools in the pure control (no calls) and 42 schools in the mobile monitoring treatment. Among the 42 schools, there will be 21 schools that receive additional encouragement messages at the end of the calls.
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There will be 42 schools in the pure control (no calls) and 42 schools in the mobile monitoring treatment. Among the 42 schools, there will be 42 schools that are assigned to the pedagogical calls (half in monitoring, half in control). These pedagogical calls will occur after the first year of the monitoring intervention.
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