Africa and Asia Successful Global Tutoring Experiences: ConnectEd
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
August 2023
Subject
Learning;
Children;
Foundational Skills;
Educational Institution;
Standard Deviation;
Development Effectiveness;
Education;
Educational Research;
Coronavirus;
Mobile Phone System;
Teacher
JEL code
I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General;
I24 - Education and Inequality;
O15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration
Category
Catalogs and Brochures
This brief describes the evidence of phone-based tutoring interventions in randomized trials in Botswana, and replicated and tested in Kenya, Nepal, India, the Philippines and Uganda. The intervention tested, aimed at strengthening children's foundational numeracy skills and called ConnectEd, improved learning by an average of 0.30-0.35 standard deviations across all testing sites, showing that the effectiveness of phone-based tutorial can scale across contexts. The document describes the key features of phone-based tutoring programs that lead to effectiveness and also outlines a future research and scaling agenda.
