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dc.titleRemote Tutoring with Low-tech Means to Accelerate Learning: Evidence for El Salvador
dc.contributor.authorZoido, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorFlores, Iván
dc.contributor.authorHevia, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorSzékely, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Eleno
dc.contributor.orgunitEducation Division
dc.coverageEl Salvador
dc.date.available2023-06-01T00:06:00
dc.date.issue2022-12-09T00:12:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text messages and 20-minute phone calls over an eight-week period. Remote tutoring is estimated to have had a positive and significant effect of 0.23 standard deviations, which is equivalent to a 33.2 percent acceleration in learning math, compared to the changes observed in the control group. Evidence shows that the rate of learning increases considerably as the number of tutoring sessions taken increases. When compared with other related studies, we conclude that the intervention is cost-effective. The main innovative elements are: (i) the generation of evidence through instruments applied in person, which ensures high quality and accuracy in learning level measurements; (ii) to our knowledge, this is the first experimental evaluation program of its kind in Latin America implemented during the pandemic, with schools partially open, which allows us to verify whether the intervention is as effective as similar such interventions in other contexts and regions of the world; (iii) the use of two types of learning level tests to validate the robustness of the results.
dc.format.extent43
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004690
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/RemoteTutoring-with-lLow-tech-Means-to-Accelerate-Learning--Evidence-for-El-Salvador.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Tutorias-remotas-con-medios-de-baja-tecnologia-para-acelerar-los-aprendizajes--evidencia-para-El-Salvador.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectChildren
dc.subjectLearning
dc.subjectAdaptive Learning
dc.subjectTeaching of Mathematics
dc.subjectStandard Deviation
dc.subjectDigital Technology
dc.subjectEducational Institution
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectPopulation Aging
dc.subjectPandemics
dc.subjectLoan Operation
dc.subjectScience and Technology
dc.subject.jelcodeI20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
dc.subject.jelcodeI24 - Education and Inequality
dc.subject.jelcodeI25 - Education and Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeI28 - Government Policy
dc.subject.keywordseducation research;Inequality;Economic Development;government policy
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01427
idb.operationRG-E1743
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