Learning While You Teach – Phase II
Project Duration: 2017 to 2017This program was designed, piloted and evaluated by Society for the Advancement of Education (SAHE) and Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) with the generous financial support of the Sub National Governance (SNG) Programme.
The purpose of this program was to build upon and improve the DSD’s existing CPD framework by piloting a technology-enabled process for delivering in-service teacher training that would ensure access to high-quality standardized, but context relevant, videos on mathematics loaded on tablets for teachers to watch. This program sought to improve the content knowledge of teachers specifically and videos focused on addressing content knowledge deficits of teachers.
The program included baseline and endline surveys and tests for teachers as well as a test for students at the endline only. In the full treatment sample, we found a small, positive effect of the program on teacher content knowledge that was not statistically significant. Importantly, however, our study found positive impacts on content knowledge of teachers who had lower baseline scores and of teachers with less formal education within the treatment group.