Experimental evidence on learning using low-tech when school is out

N Angrist, P Bergman, M Matsheng - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
School closures occurred extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, and occur in other
settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. The cost of school closures has …

Stemming learning loss during the pandemic: A rapid randomized trial of a low-tech intervention in Botswana

N Angrist, P Bergman, C Brewster… - Available at SSRN …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools for over 1.6 billion children, with potentially
long-term consequences. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on …

School's out: Experimental evidence on limiting learning loss using “low-tech” in a pandemic

N Angrist, P Bergman, M Matsheng - 2020 - nber.org
Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such
as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental …

Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?

E Bettinger, N Cunha, G Lichand… - University of Zurich …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a
variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right …

[图书][B] The scale-up effect in early childhood and public policy

JA List, D Suskind, LH Supplee - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology, public health,
philanthropy, and more, chapters and commentaries shine light on how to effectively use …

[PDF][PDF] The inequity of opt-in educational resources and an intervention to increase equitable access

CD Robinson, B Bisht, S Loeb - Annenberg Institute at Brown …, 2022 - edworkingpapers.org
Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in, educational resources to accelerate students'
learning. Although advertised to support struggling, marginalized students, there is no …

Neglecting students' socio-emotional skills magnified learning losses during the pandemic

G Lichand, J Christen, EV Egeraat - npj Science of Learning, 2024 - nature.com
Did the dramatic learning losses from remote learning in the context of COVID-19 stem at
least partly from schools having overlooked students' socio-emotional skills—such as their …

Nudging parents and teachers to improve learning and reduce child labor in Cote d'Ivoire

S Wolf, G Lichand - npj Science of Learning, 2023 - nature.com
Whether SMS-based nudge interventions can increase parent engagement and improve
child learning outcomes across diverse contexts such as rural West Africa is unknown. We …

Understanding Heterogeneous Patterns of Family Engagement With Educational Technology to Inform School-Family Communication in Linguistically Diverse …

CA Asher, E Scherer, JS Kim… - Educational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We leverage log data from an educational app and two-way text message records from over
3,500 students during the summers of 2019 and 2020 and in-depth interviews in Spanish …

Using nudges to prevent student dropouts in the pandemic

G Lichand, J Christen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04767, 2020 - arxiv.org
The impacts of COVID-19 reach far beyond the hundreds of lives lost to the disease; in
particular, the pre-existing learning crisis is expected to be magnified during school …