How big are effect sizes in international education studies?

Resource type
Report
Authors/contributors
Title
How big are effect sizes in international education studies?
Abstract
In recent years, a growing literature has measured the impact of education interventions in low- and middle-income countries on both access and learning outcomes. But interpretation of those effect sizes as large or small tends to rely on benchmarks developed by a psychologist in the United States in the 1960s. In this paper, we demonstrate the distribution of standardized effect sizes on learning and access from hundreds of studies from low- and middle-income countries.
Institution
Center for Global Development
Date
2020
Language
en
Accessed
18/02/2021, 10:46
Citation
Evans, D., & Yuan, F. (2020). How big are effect sizes in international education studies? Center for Global Development. https://www.cgdev.org/publication/how-big-are-effect-sizes-international-education-studies