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The effects of increased learning time on student academic and nonacademic outcomes : Findings from a meta‑analytic review
(Institute of Education Sciences, 2014-07)This report summarizes a review of rigorous research studies on increased learning time. Findings across studies have been combined using meta-analysis techniques. The key finding are: increased learning time programs ... -
The effects of question-generation training on metacognitive knowledge, self regulation and learning approaches in Science
(Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo, Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 2014)Antecedentes: aunque muchas investigaciones han examinado el impacto de la generación de preguntas en la comprensión lectora de los estudiantes, pocas de ellas han analizado su influencia en cómo los estudiantes aprenden ... -
The Effects of School-Based Decision Making on Educational Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Contexts: A Systematic Review
(The Campbell Collaboration, 2014)This review aims to answer the following overarching review question: What is the evidence around how decentralising decision-making to the school level affects educational outcomes in low and middle income contexts (LMICs)? ... -
The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students' Digital Skills in Peru
(BID, 2014-01)This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable ... -
The Effects of Situated Learning Through a Community Partnership in a Teacher Preparation Program
(SAGE, 2013)This article examines the value of using an alternative approach to college course instruction in an off-campus location, an agency for individuals with developmental disabilities. The situated learning model is an alternative ... -
The Effects of Weather Shocks on Early Childhood Development
(BID, 2017-10)This study analyzes the effects of exposure to tropical storms and hurricanes during pregnancy on children’s anthropometric measurements taken within the first five years of life. It combines destruction indexes at the ... -
The Evidence Base on Early Childhood Care and Education in Global Contexts
(UNESCO, 2015)Over the past 15 years, research on early childhood care and education (ECCE) has both expanded and deepened our understanding of this critical period in life and learning. Substantial advances have been made in research ... -
The Expansion of Higher Education in Colombia : Bad Students or Bad Programs?
(BID, 2016-05)Rapid expansion in the demand for post-secondary education triggered an unprecedented boom of higher education programs in Colombia, possibly deteriorating quality. This paper uses rich administrative data matching school ... -
The Experience of New Teachers : results from TALIS 2008
(OECD, 2008)This report uses data from the TALIS 2008 survey, in which eight percent of the respondents were teachers with two years or less of teaching experience. Teachers and their principals reported on the teaching and learning ... -
The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood
(Harvard University, 2015)A vital and productive society with a prosperous and sustainable future is built on a foundation of healthy child development. Health in the earliest years—actually beginning with the future mother’s health before she ... -
The Future of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean : possibilities for United States Invesment and Engagement
(Diálogo Interamericano, 2018)The objective of this report is to provide an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental analysis of issues and trends in education throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with a particular focus on identifying ... -
The Futures of Learning 2 : What Kind of Learning for the 21st Century?
(UNESCO, 2015-11)The past two decades have seen the emergence of a global movement that calls for a new model of learning for the twenty-first century. There is now a significant body of literature focusing mainly on three topics – motivations ... -
The Futures of Learning 3 : what kind of pedagogies for the 21st century?
(UNESCO, 2015-12)Since the emergence of a global movement that calls for a new model of learning for the twenty-first century, it has been argued that formal education must be transformed to enable new forms of learning that are needed to ... -
The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico
(World Bank, 2015-09)A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, ... -
The Human and Educational Significance of Honesty as an Epistemic and Moral Virtue
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)While honesty is clearly a virtue of some educational as well as moral significance, its virtue-ethical status is far from clear. In this essay, following some discussion of latter-day virtue ethics and virtue epistemology, ... -
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Learning, Teaching, and Education
(European Union, 2018)This report describes the current state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact for learning, teaching, and education. It provides conceptual foundations for well-informed policy-oriented work, ... -
The Impact of Cash Transfers on Food Security
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016)Vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan African countries often face high levels of food insecurity which disproportionately affect households living in poverty and children are particularly at risk. This review of eight ... -
The impact of education programmes on learning and school participation in low- and middle-income countries
(International Initiative for Impact Education, 2016-09)It includes studies assessing the impact of 216 programmes implemented across 52 low- and middle-income countries. And it moves beyond examining whether a programme works or doesn’t work. By examining the multiple factors ... -
The Impact of Examinee Performance Information on Judges’ Cut Scores in Modified Angoff Standard-Setting Exercises
(National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014)This research evaluated the impact of a common modification to Angoff standard-setting exercises: the provision of examinee performance data. Data from 18 independent standard-setting panels across three different medical ... -
The Impact of Financial Education on Conditional Cash Transfer Beneficiaries in Peru
(The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015)The research did not find conclusive evidence on changes in expenditures on health and education due to the SPP (Savings Promotion Pilot). Since we cannot claim a non-negative impact on these variables, we think it is ...