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Last Published
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Before
January 18, 2019 09:56 AM
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After
January 18, 2019 10:05 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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Before
Weekly calls to the primary school teacher, the primary school principal, the village chief and two parents in the school and village. The calls will simply ask each stakeholder if class (taught by that teacher) was held that week, the number of classes/days held, the number of hours taught (per day) and the number of students attending.
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After
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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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Teacher attendance (ie, intensive and extensive margin of attendance); timeliness of teacher attendance (ie, hours arrived and leaving); teaching quality (via a Stallings classroom observation method); students' attendance (number of students and number of days); students' test scores (as measured by the end of year exam); parental, principal and village chief knowledge about school activities.
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After
Teacher attendance (ie, intensive and extensive margin of attendance, as measured by logs taken by the school principal); timeliness of teacher attendance (ie, hours arrived and leaving); teaching quality (via a Stallings classroom observation method); teacher firing or movement; teacher motivation (as measured by an intrinsic motivation index and behavioral measures; students' attendance (number of students and number of days, according to teacher student attendance logs); students' test scores (as measured by the end of year exam); parental, principal and village chief knowledge about school activities.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
78 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 two interventions:
1. Mobile calls. Weekly calls to targeted teachers, principal, village chief and two parents to ask questions about teacher attendance
2. Pure control. No weekly calls.
All monitoring visits conducted by the Ministry will occur normally.
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After
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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Planned Number of Clusters
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The total number of schools is 78.
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The total number of schools in the experimental design is 84. However, we will also collect teacher attendance and student outcome data data from 20 schools in a nearby commune as a means of measuring trends in teacher and student attendance and performance. These additional schools will be non-experimental assigned, but serve as an additional control group.
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Planned Number of Observations
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The units will be approximately 3900 students, 78 principals, 150 teachers, 1500 households.
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After
The units will be approximately 4200 students, 84 principals, 168 teachers, 1500 households.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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There will be 39 schools in the control and 39 schools in the treatment.
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After
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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