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Trial End Date
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Before
December 31, 2020
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After
March 31, 2021
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Last Published
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Before
July 23, 2020 09:52 AM
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After
November 04, 2020 02:18 PM
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Intervention (Public)
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Before
We have two types of interventions: the training interventions, and then interventions to enhance take-up of training.
Training interventions:
Schools are randomly assigned to one of the following four treatment groups:
1) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos
2) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos
Interventions to enhance the take-up of training:
We are testing different interventions to encourage take-up and usage of the online platform. These include:
i) control group
ii) lottery reminder to students - students earn a ticket for a lottery prize for each completed module
iii) Encouragement to students to find a student peer to study together
iv) Encouragement to students for those who complete their work
v) Benchmarking SMS to students for those below the median
vi) Role model testimonials/motivational videos to teachers from teachers and students who have already completed the course
vii) Reminder about monitoring and deadline to teachers
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After
The intervention is provided in two phases according to the educational regimes in Ecuador: Highlands Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Summer 2020) and Coastal Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Winter 2020). We have two types of interventions: the training interventions, and then interventions to enhance the take-up of training.
Highlands Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Summer 2020) includes:
Training interventions.
Schools are randomly assigned to one of the following four treatment groups:
1) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos
2) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos
Interventions to enhance the take-up of training.
We are testing different interventions to encourage take-up and usage of the online platform on different levels: Students and teachers. These include on student level:
i) control group
ii) lottery reminder to students - students earn a ticket for a lottery prize for each completed module
iii) Encouragement to students to find a peer in the house to plan and study together
iv) Encouragement to students for those who complete their work
These include on teachers level:
I)control
ii) Role model testimonials/motivational videos to teachers from teachers and students who have already completed the course
iii) Reminder about monitoring and deadline to teachers
Coastal Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Winter 2020) that includes:
Training interventions.
Schools are randomly assigned to one of the following 6 treatment groups:
1) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos
2) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + English + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + English + Placebo videos
Interventions to enhance the take-up of training.
We are testing different interventions to encourage take-up and usage of the online platform on the school level:
i) Control
ii)Monitoring (information)
iii)Monitoring (information) + lottery reminder to students - students earn a ticket for a lottery prize for each completed module and performance on platform.
iv)Monitoring (information) + Encouragement to team-up with peers remotely.
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Intervention End Date
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Before
June 30, 2020
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After
December 31, 2020
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Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Course type is randomized at the school level to one of the following:
1) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos
2) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos
Take-up interventions are randomized at the individual level or class/teacher level, depending on the intervention.
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After
Course type is randomized at the school level to one of the following in the Highlands Educational Regime:
1) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos
2) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos
Take-up interventions are randomized at the individual level or class/teacher level, depending on the intervention.
Course type is randomized at the school level to one of the following in the Coastal Educational Regime:
1) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos
2) Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos
3) Spanish + English + Role Model videos
4) Spanish + English + Placebo videos
Take-up interventions are cross-randomized on the school level.
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Planned Number of Clusters
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Before
416 schools
532 classes
Approximately 24,000 potential students
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After
Highlands Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Summer 2020) includes:
416 schools
532 classes
Approximately 24,000 potential students
Coastal Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Winter 2020) that includes:
598 schools
795 classes
Approximately 28,000 potential students
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Planned Number of Observations
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Before
We will only observe outcomes for students who log in once to the platform - which we anticipate to be over 10,000 students.
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After
We will only observe outcomes for students who log in once to the platform - which we anticipate to be over 10,000 students in Highlands Educational Regime and over 11, 000 in Coastal Educational Regime
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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Before
104 schools in each treatment group
127 to 136 classes in each treatment group
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After
Highlands Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Summer 2020) includes:
104 schools in each treatment group
127 to 136 classes in each treatment group
Coastal Educational Regime (Students Finish the program in Winter 2020) that includes:
1) 149 schools Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Role Model videos (~200 classes)
2) 149 schools Personal initiative + Negotiations training + Placebo videos (~200 classes)
3) 75 schools: Spanish + Statistics + Role Model videos (~100 classes)
4) 75 schools: Spanish + Statistics + Placebo videos (~100 classes)
3) 75 schools: Spanish + English + Role Model videos (~100 classes)
4) 75 schools: Spanish + English + Placebo videos (~100 classes)
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