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TY - JOUR
TI - Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning
AU - Angrist, Noam
AU - Bergman, Peter
AU - Evans, David K.
AU - Hares, Susannah
AU - Jukes, Matthew C. H.
AU - Letsomo, Thato
T2 - BMJ Global Health
AB - School closures affecting more than 1.5 billion children are designed to prevent the spread of current public health risks from the COVID-19 pandemic, but they simultaneously introduce education risks as well as new, longer run health risks, via lost education. While some studies measure student involvement in educational activities during the crisis through phone-based surveys, the literature on assessing learning by phone is almost nonexistent, despite the fact that learning loss has major implications for school dropout and rising inequality. In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary principles to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments. We provide guidance to help teams (1) ensure that children are not put at risk, (2) test the reliability and validity of phone-based measures, (3) use simple instructions and practice items to ensure the assessment is focused on the target skill, not general language and test-taking skills, (4) adapt the items from oral assessments that will be most effective in phone-based assessments, (5) keep assessments brief while still gathering meaningful learning data, (6) learn from the speed and confidence of responses, (7) use effective strategies to encourage respondents to pick up the phone, and (8) build rapport with adult caregivers and youth respondents.
DA - 2020/07//
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003030
DP - Zotero
VL - 5
IS - 7
SP - 16
J2 - BMJ Glob Health
LA - en
SN - 2059-7908
UR - https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/practical-lessons-phone-based-assessments-learning-revised-jul2020.pdf
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TY - JOUR
TI - Practical lessons for phone-based assessments of learning
AU - Angrist, Noam
AU - Bergman, Peter
AU - Evans, David K
AU - Hares, Susannah
AU - Jukes, Matthew C H
AU - Letsomo, Thato
T2 - BMJ Global Health
AB - School closures affecting more than 1.5 billion children are designed to prevent the spread of current public health risks from the COVID-19 pandemic, but they simultaneously introduce new short-term and long-term health risks through lost education. Measuring these effects in real time is critical to inform effective public health responses, and remote phone-based approaches are one of the only viable options with extreme social distancing in place. However, both the health and education literature are sparse on guidance for phone-based assessments. In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary practical lessons to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments. We provide preliminary evidence that phone-based assessments can accurately capture basic numeracy skills. We provide guidance to help teams (1) ensure that children are not put at risk, (2) test the reliability and validity of phone-based measures, (3) use simple instructions and practice items to ensure the assessment is focused on the target skill, not general language and test-taking skills, (4) adapt the items from oral assessments that will be most effective in phone-based assessments, (5) keep assessments brief while still gathering meaningful learning data, (6) use effective strategies to encourage respondents to pick up the phone, (7) build rapport with adult caregivers and youth respondents, (8) choose the most cost-effective medium and (9) account for potential bias in samples.
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PY - 2020
DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003030
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VL - 5
IS - 7
SP - e003030
J2 - BMJ Glob Health
LA - en
SN - 2059-7908
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TY - JOUR
TI - Practical lessons for phone-based assessments of learning
AU - Angrist, Noam
AU - Bergman, Peter
AU - Evans, David K
AU - Hares, Susannah
AU - Jukes, Matthew C H
AU - Letsomo, Thato
T2 - BMJ Global Health
AB - School closures affecting more than 1.5 billion children are designed to prevent the spread of current public health risks from the COVID-19 pandemic, but they simultaneously introduce new short-term and long-term health risks through lost education. Measuring these effects in real time is critical to inform effective public health responses, and remote phone-based approaches are one of the only viable options with extreme social distancing in place. However, both the health and education literature are sparse on guidance for phone-based assessments. In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary practical lessons to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments. We provide preliminary evidence that phone-based assessments can accurately capture basic numeracy skills. We provide guidance to help teams (1) ensure that children are not put at risk, (2) test the reliability and validity of phone-based measures, (3) use simple instructions and practice items to ensure the assessment is focused on the target skill, not general language and test-taking skills, (4) adapt the items from oral assessments that will be most effective in phone-based assessments, (5) keep assessments brief while still gathering meaningful learning data, (6) use effective strategies to encourage respondents to pick up the phone, (7) build rapport with adult caregivers and youth respondents, (8) choose the most cost-effective medium and (9) account for potential bias in samples.
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DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003030
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TY - JOUR
TI - Practical lessons for phone-based assessments of learning
AU - Angrist, Noam
AU - Bergman, Peter
AU - Evans, David
AU - Hares, Susannah
AU - Jukes, Matthew
AU - Letsomo, Thato
T2 - BMJ Global Health
AB - In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary practical lessons to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments. We provide preliminary evidence that phone-based assessments can accurately capture basic numeracy skills.
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003030
VL - 5
IS - 7
LA - en
UR - https://www.cgdev.org/publication/principles-phone-based-assessments-learning
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