When Promising Interventions Fail

• Tác giả: Pedro Carneiro
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 517.9 [Unassigned]
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299106
• Chủ đề: 1. EDUCATION QUALITY; 2. PRIMARY EDUCATION; 3. TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; 4. TEACHER TRAINING

Tóm tắt

Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. The authors designed a coaching program that focused on one aspect of teacher quality-teacher-child interactions-that researchers in education and psychology have argued is critical for child development and learning. The coaching program was implemented in Ecuador, with 100 1st grade teachers randomly assigned to treatment and 100 to control. Coaching improved the quality of teacher-child interactions but reduced child achievement. These results underline the importance of evaluating new forms of professional development for teachers, even those that follow best practice, before these interventions are taken to scale.