[vsw id="thkzwHCKLrs" source="youtube" width="425" height="344" autoplay="no"] In my previous blog, I shared some thoughts on the challenges of evaluating and measuring teaching methods innovations. More specifically, on the challenges of measuring the impact of an intensive instruction program using the Rassias teaching method on English as a second language teaching. The … [Read more...] about Notes from the field: help me improve
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Notes from the field: help me improve
In my previous blog, I shared some thoughts on the challenges of evaluating and measuring teaching methods innovations. More specifically, on the challenges of measuring the impact of an intensive instruction program using the Rassias teaching method on English as a second language teaching. The program is targeted at teachers with an intermediate to low level of English. In … [Read more...] about Notes from the field: help me improve
Four Impact Evaluations from Latin America: comparing apples with apples
We finished the first week of the International Workshop on Surveys and Impact Evaluation on Friday 20th January with the presentation of four examples of impact evaluations of programs in the region. 1) Productive Sector Rodolfo Stucchi from the IDB presented the results of an impact evaluation of the Chilean Supplier Development Program, aimed at improving and … [Read more...] about Four Impact Evaluations from Latin America: comparing apples with apples
Cost Effectiveness: a new Guide for Health and Education
We have just published a new Guide, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Education and Health Interventions in Developing Countries written by Patrick McEwan, who teaches at Wellesley College. Cost effectiveness analysis is a straight-forward but hugely under-utilized tool. This paper reviews the framework and methods of cost-effectiveness analysis, emphasizing education and … [Read more...] about Cost Effectiveness: a new Guide for Health and Education
Inequality of opportunity: an emerging body of literature
By: Lucas Figal Garone Academia, general public and governments seem to understand inequality differently. While many in academia and in the public sector focus on the measurement of the distribution of certain outcomes – e.g. income or total consumption –, in the real world, people seem to care about opportunity: that all individuals have the same opportunities to … [Read more...] about Inequality of opportunity: an emerging body of literature