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Nature reports a pooled 0.321-standard-deviation gain across five COVID-disrupted-country trials involving primary-school children. DATASET_RESULT

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Source: Mobile education builds resilience during shocks in five countries · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:54c8bc39a10e3b7faeaadb95bf867745f5f1d528ab6947542ddef38a71f25c48

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We report results from large-scale randomized controlled trials across five countries: India, Kenya, Nepal, the Philippines and Uganda. In all settings, schooling was disrupted owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. We also show pooled average effects across all five countries. Column 1 in Extended Data Table 2 shows that for the combined phone and SMS group, there was a 0.321 s.d. (P < 0.001) increase in the average numerical operation across all 5 countries.

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