Documents et rapports

Gulf Economic Update - Unlocking Prosperity: Transforming Education for Economic Breakthrough in the GCC (anglais)

The Gulf Economic Update (GEU) is the product of the Middle East and North Africa unit in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment (MTI) Global Practice at the World Bank Group. It provides an update...

Gender, Growth Mindset, and Covid-19 : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh (anglais)

School closures during the covid-19 pandemic disrupted learning among students globally, with concerns for long-term impacts on adolescent well-being and likely differential effects for boys versus girls...

Bangladesh - Can Results-Based Financing Improve the Effectiveness of Online Teacher Training? (anglais)

A recent review suggests that teacher-support interventions are more effective when linked to career incentives such as promotion or salary enhancements, but this approach can be difficult to implement...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation - P160943 - Sequence No : 08 (anglais)

Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation - P160943 (anglais)

Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs : A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness (anglais)

This paper uses machine learning methods to identify key predictors of teacher effectiveness, proxied by student learning gains linked to a teacher over an academic year. Conditional inference forests...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation - P160943 - Sequence No : 07 (anglais)

Remote Learning : Evidence from Nepal during COVID-19 : Policy Brief (anglais)

This note discusses early results from a distance education program on foundational numeracy for primary school students in Nepal during Coronavirus (COVID-19) evaluated in a randomized trial. The trial...

Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation - P160943 (anglais)

Learning in the Time of COVID-19 : Insights from Nepal (anglais)

This note discusses the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and related school closures on primary students’ access to learning in Nepal. The primary source of data is a phone-survey with households that...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation - P160943 - Sequence No : 06 (anglais)

Adolescence in the Time of COVID-19 : Evidence from Bangladesh (anglais)

This note examines the effects of COVID-19 and subsequent economic and educational disruptions on adolescent well-being in Bangladesh. The analysis is based on data from 2,095 in-school adolescents aged...

How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently ? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric (anglais)

Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments...

When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short (anglais)

This paper reports the results of an at-scale randomized controlled trial among 18,000 secondary students in Zanzibar (Tanzania) to examine the effects of personal best goal-setting on student outcomes...

Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality (anglais)

This study evaluates the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results from a two-phase randomized trial show that incentives for teachers led to modest average...

Educator Knowledge of Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Eastern Nepal (anglais)

Early childhood is a crucial period for the cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and language development of children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide...

Low-Cost Private Schools in Tanzania : A Descriptive Analysis (anglais)

This paper discusses the potential role of low-cost private secondary schools in Tanzania. The share of private enrollment has been negatively correlated with the availability of public schools. With the...

TV-Based Learning in Bangladesh : Is it Reaching Students? (anglais)

Is TV-based learning during COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh reaching students? Most students (86 percent) within our sample of more than 2,000 Grade 9 stipend recipients are aware of government...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation - P160943 - Sequence No : 05 (anglais)

The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (anglais)

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children and youth of primary- and secondary-school age were out of school. And low schooling...