Evidence item

A randomized Sierra Leone trial found no learning-score effect from calls by either private or government teachers. MEASUREMENT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 15149

Source: Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:09ccb839319738752ccd76ab9234c97264f90dc29f6fd279f125e0208c39b655

We find no effect of calls by either private or government teachers on mathematics or language test scores. This is robust to controls for student characteristics and school fixed effects, and differences in survey mode (in-person or phone).