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The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback to Teachers on Student Learning: Experimental Evidence from India

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: We present experimental evidence on the impact of a programme that provided low‐stakes diagnostic tests and feedback to teachers, and low‐stakes monitoring of classroom processes across a representative set of schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We find teachers in treatment schools exerting more effort when observed in the classroom but students in these schools do no better on independently‐administered tests than students in schools that did not receive the programme. This suggests that though teachers in the programme schools worked harder while being observed, there was no impact of the feedback and monitoring on student learning outcomes.

Source: The Economic Journal

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02373.x

Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman

Institutions: University of California San Diego, World Bank

Language: English

Topic: School Choice and Performance

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: World Bank Group, Department for International Development