National Education Policy - Malawi Ministry of Education (2016)

National Education Policy - Malawi Ministry of Education (2016)

National Education Policy - Malawi Ministry of Education (2016)

QALY-based cost-effectiveness analysis - Pinto-Prades,, J. L; Herrero, C; Abellán, J. M (The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, 2016)

Does technology improve reading outcomes? Comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ICT interventions for early grade reading in Kenya - Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Kwayumba, Dunston; Strigel, Carmen (International Journal of Educational Development, 2016)
Education policymakers are investing in information and communications technology (ICT) without a research base on how ICT improves outcomes. There is limited research on the effects of different types of ICT investments on outcomes. The Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) study implemented a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects and cost of three interventions – e-readers for students, tablets for teachers, and the base PRIMR program with tablets for instructional supervisors. The results show that the ICT investments do not improve literacy outcomes significantly more than the base non-ICT instructional program. Our findings show that cost considerations should be paramount in selecting ICT investments in the education sector.
Keywords: Education policy; International education; Kenya; Literacy; Reading; Technology; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2457283; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

Are Our Children Learning? - Uwezo (Twaweza East Africa, 2016)

Assessing the Construct Validity of Save the Children's International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) - Wolf, Sharon; Halpin, Peter; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Pisani, Lauren; Dowd, Amy Jo; Borisova, Ivelina (Global TIES for Children, New York University, Save the Children, 2016)

ICT in Education Policy - Ghana - Ministry of Education, Ghana (Ministry of Education Ghana, 2015)

Automating data extraction in systematic reviews: a systematic review - Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha R.; Goyal, Pawan; Huffman, Mark D. (Systematic Reviews, 2015)
Automation of the parts of systematic review process, specifically the data extraction step, may be an important strategy to reduce the time necessary to complete a systematic review. However, the state of the science of automatically extracting data elements from full texts has not been well described. This paper performs a systematic review of published and unpublished methods to automate data extraction for systematic reviews.
Keywords: Conditional Random Field; Data Element; PubMed Abstract; Support Vector Machine; Systematic Review Process; _Added-ailr-2024

Using text mining for study identification in systematic reviews: a systematic review of current approaches - O’Mara-Eves, Alison; Thomas, James; McNaught, John; Miwa, Makoto; Ananiadou, Sophia (Systematic Reviews, 2015)
The large and growing number of published studies, and their increasing rate of publication, makes the task of identifying relevant studies in an unbiased way for inclusion in systematic reviews both complex and time consuming. Text mining has been offered as a potential solution: through automating some of the screening process, reviewer time can be saved. The evidence base around the use of text mining for screening has not yet been pulled together systematically; this systematic review fills that research gap. Focusing mainly on non-technical issues, the review aims to increase awareness of the potential of these technologies and promote further collaborative research between the computer science and systematic review communities.
Keywords: Automation; Review efficiency; Screening; Study selection; Text mining

Standing on the shoulders of giants: challenges and recommendations of literature search in information systems research - Brocke, J; Simons, A; Riemer, K (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2015)
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Managing School Internal Mechanisms for Performance Improvement in Secondary Education: Case of Six Secondary Schools in Eastern Zone in Tanzania - Chua, C. L.; Mosha, H. J. (SAGE Open, 2015)

RobotReviewer: evaluation of a system for automatically assessing bias in clinical trials - Marshall, I.J.; Kuiper, J; Wallace, B.C. (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2015)
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Improving learning in primary schools of developing countries: A meta-analysis of randomized experiments - McEwan, Patrick J (Review of Educational Research, 2015)
I gathered 77 randomized experiments (with 111 treatment arms) that evaluated the effects of school-based interventions on learning in developing-country primar...
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Development of early mathematical skills with a tablet intervention: a randomized control trial in Malawi - Pitchford, Nicola J. (Frontiers in Psychology, 2015)
Evaluation of educational interventions is necessary prior to wide-scale rollout. Yet very few rigorous studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of tablet-based interventions, especially in the early years and in developing countries. This study reports a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a tablet intervention for supporting the development of early mathematical skills in primary school children in Malawi. A total sample of 318 children, spanning Standards 1–3, attending a medium-sized urban primary school, were randomized to one of three groups: maths tablet intervention, non-maths tablet control, and standard face-to-face practice. Children were pre-tested using tablets at the start of the school year on two tests of mathematical knowledge and a range of basic skills related to scholastic progression. Class teachers then delivered the intervention over an 8-weeks period, for the equivalent of 30-min per day. Technical support was provided from the local Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Children were then post-tested on the same assessments as given at pre-test. A final sample of 283 children, from Standards 1–3, present at both pre- and post-test, was analyzed to investigate the effectiveness of the maths tablet intervention. Significant effects of the maths tablet intervention over and above standard face-to-face practice or using tablets without the maths software were found in Standards 2 and 3. In Standard 3 the greater learning gains shown by the maths tablet intervention group compared to both of the control groups on the tablet-based assessments transferred to paper and pencil format, illustrating generalization of knowledge gained. Thus, tablet technology can effectively support early years mathematical skills in developing countries if the software is carefully designed to engage the child in the learning process and the content is grounded in a solid well-constructed curriculum appropriate for the child’s developmental stage.
Keywords: Evaluation; Mathematics; Tablets; Technology; ___working_potential_duplicate; intervention; primary school; randomized control trial

Uwezo data - Household data - Twaweza (2015)

Sector learning and adaptive management - van Soest, A; Carriger, S; Casella, D; Wells, C; Silva, D (IRC, 2015)
Sector learning refers to the processes and mechanisms in place at sector level to ensure that actors are capable of jointly reflecting on current service delivery and identifying problems, developing solutions, and spreading successes. Sector learning goes hand in hand with adaptive management, a structured process of translating learning into action.

Implementation Completion and Results Report for a Project to Improve Education Quality in Malawi - World Bank (2015)

HLM behind the curtain: Unveiling decisions behind the use and interpretation of HLM in higher education research - Niehaus, Elizabeth; Campbell, Corbin M.; Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi (Research in Higher Education, 2014)
Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) has become increasingly popular in the higher education literature, but there is significant variability in the current approaches to the conducting and reporting of HLM. The field currently lacks a general consensus around important issues such as the number of levels of analysis that are important to include and how much variance should be accounted for at each level in order for the HLM analysis to have practical significance (Dedrick et al., Rev Educ Res 79:69–102, 2009). The purpose of this research is to explore the use of a 3-level HLM model, appropriate contextualizing of results of HLM, and the interpretation of HLM results that resonates with practice. We used an example of a 3-level model from the National Study of Living Learning Programs to highlight the practical issues that arise in the interpretation of HLM within a higher education context.
Keywords: Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM); Higher education research; Statistical methods

What Matters Most for Education Management Information Systems: A Framework Paper - Abdul-Hamid, Husein (SABER Working Paper Series, 2014)
Keywords: Academic Assessments; Access to Data; Access to Education; Access to Information; Adult Education; Annual School Census; Application Programming; Assessment Framework; Average Teacher Salaries; Basic Education; Basic Education Statistics; Best Practice; Business Intelligence; Care Providers; Class Sizes; Classroom; Classroom Learning; Classrooms; Client Countries; Communication Technology; Communications Technologies; Communications Technology; Completion Rates; Continuing Education; Curriculum; Data Analysis; Data Collection; Data Coverage; Data Gathering; Data Providers; Data Sharing; Data Sources; Data Systems; Data Warehouse; Decision Makers; Decision Making; Decision-Making; Demand for Education; Domain; Domains; Early Childhood; Early Childhood Development; Early Childhood Education; Educated Population; Education Budget; Education Data; Education Development; Education Institutions; Education Management; Education Management Systems; Education Outcomes; Education Planning; Education Policies; Education Policy; Education Providers; Education Services; Education Statistics; Education Strategy; Education System; Education Systems; Education Targets; Education Teachers; Education for All; Educational Development; Educational Expenditures; Educational Inputs; Educational Outcomes; Educational Planning; Educational Processes; Educational Quality; Educational Sciences; Educators; Enabling Environment; Enrollment Data; Enrollment Levels; Enrollment Rates; Enrollment Statistics; Equitable Education; Expert Opinion; Female Teachers; Financial Performance; Formal Education; Functionalities; Functionality; Gender Equality; Gender Equity; Gender Parity; Gender Parity Index; Girls; Global Education; Gross Enrollment; Gross Enrollment Ratio; High Quality Education; Human Resources; Improvement of Education; Information Gaps; Information System; Information Systems; Information Technology; Innovation

What Matters Most for Education Management Information Systems: A Framework Paper - Abdul-Hamid, Husein (SABER Working Paper Series, 2014)
Keywords: Academic Assessments; Access to Data; Access to Education; Access to Information; Adult Education; Annual School Census; Application Programming; Assessment Framework; Average Teacher Salaries; Basic Education; Basic Education Statistics; Best Practice; Business Intelligence; Care Providers; Class Sizes; Classroom; Classroom Learning; Classrooms; Client Countries; Communication Technology; Communications Technologies; Communications Technology; Completion Rates; Continuing Education; Curriculum; Data Analysis; Data Collection; Data Coverage; Data Gathering; Data Providers; Data Sharing; Data Sources; Data Systems; Data Warehouse; Decision Makers; Decision Making; Decision-Making; Demand for Education; Domain; Domains; Early Childhood; Early Childhood Development; Early Childhood Education; Educated Population; Education Budget; Education Data; Education Development; Education Institutions; Education Management; Education Management Systems; Education Outcomes; Education Planning; Education Policies; Education Policy; Education Providers; Education Services; Education Statistics; Education Strategy; Education System; Education Systems; Education Targets; Education Teachers; Education for All; Educational Development; Educational Expenditures; Educational Inputs; Educational Outcomes; Educational Planning; Educational Processes; Educational Quality; Educational Sciences; Educators; Enabling Environment; Enrollment Data; Enrollment Levels; Enrollment Rates; Enrollment Statistics; Equitable Education; Expert Opinion; Female Teachers; Financial Performance; Formal Education; Functionalities; Functionality; Gender Equality; Gender Equity; Gender Parity; Gender Parity Index; Girls; Global Education; Gross Enrollment; Gross Enrollment Ratio; High Quality Education; Human Resources; Improvement of Education; Information Gaps; Information System; Information Systems; Information Technology; Innovation

Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development: Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts - Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna (Policy Research Working Papers, 2014)

Ceiling Effect - Garin, Olatz (Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2014)

National ICT Master Plan - Government of Malawi (2014)

Education Sector Implementation Plan II (2013/14 - 2017/18) - Government of the Republic of Malawi; UNICEF Malawi (2014)

Information and communication technology in early childhood education: challenges for effective implementation and integration - Hammed, N. M. A. (2014)

Teachers’ perspectives on their use of ICT in teaching and learning: A case study - Kafyulilo, Ayoub; Keengwe, Jared (Education and information technologies, 2014)
This article presents the perspectives of science and mathematics teachers on their use of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching and learning in Tanzania. The findings show that few teachers used computers for teaching and learning purposes while majority of them used computers for administrative purposes. Additionally, teachers were found to have limited confidence in using technology to facilitate specific concepts or skills, to support creativity, and to support students to learn complex concepts. Therefore, it is suggested that schools explore strategies ICT integration strategies that focus more on making a shift from teaching technology or using technology for administrative purpose to appropriate pedagogical uses that could enhance student learning.
Keywords: Case studies; Communication; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Science; Computers and Education; Education; Educational Technology; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information technology; Learning; Learning strategies; Mathematics; Pedagogy; Science; Student Learning; Study and teaching; Teacher attitudes; Teachers; Teaching; Technology Integration; Technology application; Training; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trials in Education Research: A Guide to Design and Analysis - Lohr, Sharon; Schochet, Peter Z; Sanders, Elizabeth (National Center for Education Research (NCER), 2014)

Systematic review automation technologies - Tsafnat, G.; Glasziou, P.; Choong, M.K. (Systematic Reviews, 2014)
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Education sector analysis methodological guidelines - UNESCO-IIEP; World Bank; UNICEF; Global Partnership for Education (2014)
The Methodological Guidelines provide methods for carrying out a comprehensive analysis of the education sector in developing countries. Volume 1 of the guidelines discusses the context for the development of the education sector, enrollment, internal efficiency, out-of-school children, cost and financing, quality, system capacity and management, external efficiency and equity.

Negotiating problems of practice in research–practice design partnerships - Penuel, William R.; Coburn, Cynthia E.; Gallagher, Daniel J. (Teachers College Record, 2013)
This chapter focuses on how researchers and practitioners negotiate the focus of their joint work within design-based implementation research (DBIR). Studying and facilitating successful negotiation of the problems that become the focus of work and the search for solutions is important for developing DBIR, because of its commitment to focusing on persistent problems of practice from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. Case studies of two different research–practice partnerships provide a context for exploring two different perspectives on negotiation. In one case study, the notion of partnerships as forms of cultural exchange across institutional boundaries that differ with respect to goals, norms, and practices is used to analyze a design partnership focused on repurposing curriculum units in elementary science. In the second case study, the concept of framing as developed in social movement theory is used to illuminate issues of status and authority within a partnership between a district and researchers. The chapter concludes by describing the contributions of each perspective to an understanding of how teams jointly negotiate the focus of their work and by providing some recommendations for how teams can do so successfully.

A different approach to scaling up educational technology initiatives - Trucano, Michael (World Bank Blogs, 2013)
the way most projects 'scale up' just might yield inequitable results Much is made of the necessity to 'scale up' in international development circles. Here at the World Bank, a quick search on our web site reveals publications and conferences with titles like Scaling Up Knowledge Sharing for Development, Global ...

Systematic reviews: Work that needs to be done and not to be done - Adams, Clive E; Polzmacher, Stefanie; Wolff, Annabelle (Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2013)
Systematic reviews are researches requiring great attention to detail. They may well necessitate considerable investment of effort to ensure relevant data are identified, extracted, synthesized, written up and disseminated. These tasks have already been greatly refined and, in some cases, simplified, by machines. The last two decades have seen remarkable progress in machine-assisted production of reviews – the next two should see much more.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024; medical Informatics; systematic reviews; unified medical language system

Design-Based Implementation Research: An Emerging Model for Transforming the Relationship of Research and Practice - Fishman, Barry J; Penuel, William R; Allen, Anna-Ruth; Cheng, Britte Haugan; Sabelli, Nora (Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2013)
This chapter presents an introduction to design-based implementation research (DBIR). We describe the need for DBIR as a research approach that challenges educational researchers and practitioners to transcend traditional research/practice barriers to facilitate the design of educational interventions that are effective, sustainable, and scalable. We examine antecedents to DBIR, including evaluation research, community-based participatory research, design-based research, and implementation research. The four core principles of DBIR are explained: (1) a focus on persistent problems of practice from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives; (2) a commitment to iterative, collaborative design; (3) a concern with developing theory and knowledge related to both classroom learning and implementation through systematic inquiry; and (4) a concern with developing capacity for sustaining change in systems. We close with an overview of the chapters contained in this NSSE Yearbook on DBIR and explain how each chapter contributes to the overall development of the DBIR approach.
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Education Act: No.21 of 2013 - Government of Malawi (2013)

The effect of free primary education policy on late school entry in urban primary schools in Kenya - Ngware, Moses W.; Oketch, Moses; Ezeh, Alex C.; Mutisya, Maurice (International Review of Education, 2013)

Malawi National ICT Policy 2013 - Republic of Malawi (MACRA, 2013)

Inclusion Matters : The Foundation for Shared Prosperity - World Bank (World Bank, 2013)
Today, the world is at a conjuncture where issues of exclusion and inclusion are assuming new significance for both developed and developing countries. The imperative for social inclusion has blurred the distinction between these two stylized poles of development. Countries that used to be referred to as developed are grappling with issues of exclusion and inclusion perhaps more intensely today than they did a decade ago. And countries previously called developing are grappling with both old issues and new forms of exclusion thrown up by growth. Nonlinear demographic transitions, global economic volatility, shifts in the international balance of power, and local political movements have had a large part to play in these shifting sands. These changes make social inclusion more urgent than it was even a decade ago. This report tries to put boundaries around the abstraction that is "social inclusion." Placing the discussion of social inclusion within such global transitions and transformations, the report argues that social inclusion is an evolving agenda. It offers two easy-to-use definitions and a framework to assist practitioners in asking, outlining, and developing some of the right questions that can help advance the agenda of inclusion in different contexts. This report builds on previous analytical work, especially by the World Bank, on themes that touch upon social inclusion, including multidimensional poverty, inequality, equity, social cohesion, and empowerment. There are seven main messages in this report: (1) excluded groups exist in all countries; (2) excluded groups are consistently denied opportunities; (3) intense global transitions are leading to social transformations that create new opportunities for inclusion as well as exacerbating existing forms of exclusion; (4) people take part in society through markets, services, and spaces; (5) social and economic transformations affect the attitudes and perceptions of people. As people act on the basis of how they feel, it is important to pay attention to their attitudes and perceptions; (6) exclusion is not immutable. Abundant evidence demonstrates that social inclusion can be planned and achieved; and (7) moving ahead will require a broader and deeper knowledge of exclusion and its impacts as well as taking concerted action. The report is divided into three parts. Part one is framing the issues. Part two focuses on transitions, transformations, and perceptions. Part three is change is possible.

Goal attainment scaling as an outcome measure in randomized controlled trials of psychosocial interventions in autism. - Ruble, Lisa; McGrew, John H.; Toland, Michael D. (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012)
Goal attainment scaling (GAS) holds promise as an idiographic approach for measuring outcomes of psychosocial interventions in community settings. GAS has been criticized for untested assumptions of scaling level (i.e., interval or ordinal), inter-individual equivalence and comparability, and reliability of coding across different behavioral observation methods. We tested assumptions of equality between GAS descriptions for outcome measurement in a randomized trial (i.e., measurability, equidistance, level of difficulty, comparability of behavior samples collected from teachers vs. researchers and live vs. videotape). Results suggest GAS descriptions can be evaluated for equivalency, that teacher collected behavior samples are representative, and that varied sources of behavior samples can be reliably coded. GAS is a promising measurement approach. Recommendations are provided to ensure methodological quality.
Keywords: Autism; Goal attainment scaling; Outcome measurement; Psychosocial intervention; Randomized controlled trials; Reliability

The Need for Randomised Controlled Trials in Educational Research - Torgerson, Carole J.; Torgerson, David J. (The Need for Randomised Controlled Trials in Educational Research, 2012)
The first use of RCTs in education is uncertain. In the last century the use of the design pre-dated its use in medicine by at least a decade (although medical trials may have been undertaken in the 19th century). Forsetlund and colleagues (2007) identified two education trials conducted by Walters in 1931 and 1932, which predated the 1944 and 1948 medical trials run by the UK's Medical Research Council by more than a decade. The early interest in RCTs among some educational researchers was not sustained. Other, less robust, designs to demonstrate educational effectiveness were pursued. For example, quasi-experimental studies were often preferred, being relatively inexpensive, rapid to conduct and often able to generate politically attractive conclusions. However, their results are inherently less reliable than the results from RCTs as their internal validity is always potentially confounded by variables offering alternative explanations.

What influences teachers to change their practice - Webster, Alison; McNeish, Di; Scott, Sara; Maynard, Linda; Haywood (National Centre for Social Research for Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change, 2012)

New modes of teacher pre-service training and professional support - Anamuah-Mensah, Jophus; Banks, Frank; Moon, Bob; Wolfenden, Freda (Teacher education and the challenge of development: a global analysis, 2012)
Keywords: Economic development -- Effect of education on -- Developing countries.; Teachers -- Training of -- Developing countries.; Teaching -- Developing countries.

Systematic literature studies: database searches vs. backward snowballing - Jalali, S; Wohlin, C (2012)

Research methods dictionary - Mugenda, Olive M; Mugenda, Abel G (Kenya Arts Press, 2012)

From design experiments to formative interventions - Engeström, Yrjö (Theory & Psychology, 2011)
So-called ?design experiments? have been presented as a radical alternative to traditional experimental designs in behavioral sciences. A closer scrutiny of design experiments shows that they share the basic linear methodology of traditional randomized controlled trials, and thus ignore resistance and agency of learners as a source of surprise and novelty. Formative interventions based on Vygotsky?s principle of double stimulation offer an alternative that builds on and purposefully fosters learners? agency. Formative interventions may be characterized with the help of an argumentative grammar which proposes (a) the collective activity system as a unit of analysis, (b) contradictions as a source of change and development, (c) agency as a crucial layer of causality, and (d) transformation of practice as a form of expansive concept formation. These four epistemic tenets are concretized with the help of analysis of data from a Change Laboratory formative experiment conducted in a Finnish hospital. The analysis shows that double stimulation is a multi-layered and longitudinal process in which both the initial problem situation (first stimulus) and the mediating conceptual tool (second stimulus) are reformulated and enriched in successive steps. Such a process of double stimulation generates a thirdness, a new concept for the activity under transformation.

Organizing research and development at the intersection of learning, implementation, and design - Penuel, W. R.; Fishman, B. J.; Haugan Cheng, B.; Sabelli, N. (Educational Researcher, 2011)

Getting off the “Gold Standard”: Randomized controlled trials and education research - Sullivan, Gail M (Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2011)

Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support Program: Baseline Report - USAID (2011)

Tanzania: ICT in education: situational analysis - Swarts, Patti; Wachira, Esther Mwiyeria (Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative, 2010)

The (Perceived) Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling - Jensen, Robert (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010)
Economists emphasize the link between market returns to education and investments in schooling. Though many studies estimate these returns with earnings data, it is the perceived returns that affect schooling decisions, and these perceptions may be inaccurate. Using survey data for eighth-grade boys in the Dominican Republic, we find that the perceived returns to secondary school are extremely low, despite high measured returns. Students at randomly selected schools given information on the higher measured returns completed on average 0.20–0.35 more years of school over the next four years than those who were not.

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India - Banerjee, Abhijit V; Banerji, Rukmini; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Khemani, Stuti (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010)
Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their quality. We conducted a randomized evaluation of three interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation to India: providing information on existing institutions, training community members in a testing tool for children, and training volunteers to hold remedial reading camps. These interventions had no impact on community involvement, teacher effort, or learning outcomes inside the school. However, in the third intervention, youth volunteered to teach camps, and children who attended substantially improved their reading skills. This suggests that citizens face constraints in influencing public services. (JEL H52, I21, I28, O15)
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Literature searching for social science systematic reviews: consideration of a range of search techniques - Papaioannou, Diana; Sutton, Anthea; Carroll, Christopher; Booth, Andrew; Wong, Ruth (Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2010)
Background: Literature for a systematic review on the student experience of e-learning is located across a range of subject areas including health, education, social science, library and information science. Objectives: To assess the merits and shortcomings of using different search techniques in retrieval of evidence in the social science literature. Methods: A conventional subject search was undertaken as the principal method of identifying the literature for the review. Four supplementary search methods were used including citation searching, reference list checking, contact with experts and pearl growing. Results: The conventional subject search identified 30 of 41 included references; retrieved from 10 different databases. References were missed by this method and a further 11 references were identified via citation searching, reference list checking and contact with experts. Pearl growing was suspended as the nominated pearls were dispersed across numerous databases, with no single database indexing more than four pearls. Conclusions: Searching within the social sciences literature requires careful consideration. Conventional subject searching identified the majority of references, but additional search techniques were essential and located further high quality references.
Keywords: _TBC for use ailr-2024

A practical guide to multilevel modeling - Peugh, James L. (Journal of School Psychology, 2010)
Collecting data from students within classrooms or schools, and collecting data from students on multiple occasions over time, are two common sampling methods used in educational research that often require multilevel modeling (MLM) data analysis techniques to avoid Type-1 errors. The purpose of this article is to clarify the seven major steps involved in a multilevel analysis: (1) clarifying the research question, (2) choosing the appropriate parameter estimator, (3) assessing the need for MLM, (4) building the level-1 model, (5) building the level-2 model, (6) multilevel effect size reporting, and (7) likelihood ratio model testing. The seven steps are illustrated with both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal MLM example from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) dataset. The goal of this article is to assist applied researchers in conducting and interpreting multilevel analyses and to offer recommendations to guide the reporting of MLM analysis results. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Classrooms; Data Collection; Schools; Simulation

The Education System in Malawi - World Bank (2010)

How to select, calculate, and interpret effect sizes - Durlak, Joseph A. (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2009)
The objective of this article is to offer guidelines regarding the selection, calculation, and interpretation of effect sizes (ESs). To accomplish this goal, ESs are first defined and their important contribution to research is emphasized. Then different types of ESs commonly used in group and correlational studies are discussed. Several useful resources are provided for distinguishing among different types of effects and what modifications might be required in their calculation depending on a study's purpose and methods. This article should assist producers and consumers of research in understanding the role, importance, and meaning of ESs in research reports.

Multilevel modeling: A review of methodological issues and applications - Dedrick, Robert F.; Ferron, John M.; Hess, Melinda R.; Hogarty, Kristine Y.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D.; Lang, Thomas R.; Niles, John D.; Lee, Reginald S. (Review of Educational Research, 2009)
This study analyzed the reporting of multilevel modeling applications of a sample of 99 articles from 13 peer-reviewed journals in education and the social sciences. A checklist, derived from the methodological literature on multilevel modeling and focusing on the issues of model development and specification, data considerations, estimation, and inference, was used to analyze the articles. The most common applications were two-level models where individuals were nested within contexts. Most studies were non-experimental and used nonprobability samples. The amount of data at each level varied widely across studies, as did the number of models examined. Analyses of reporting practices indicated some clear problems, with many articles not reporting enough information for a reader to critique the reported analyses. For example, in many articles, one could not determine how many models were estimated, what covariance structure was assumed, what type of centering if any was used, whether the data were consistent with assumptions, whether outliers were present, or how the models were estimated. Guidelines for researchers reporting multilevel analyses are provided.

Tuned in to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of IRI - Education Development Center, Inc. (2009)
This study reviews student assessment data collected from 15 EDC projects to determine the impact of interactive radio instruction (IRI) on student achievement in hard-to-reach areas.

Risk of bias versus quality assessment of randomised controlled trials: cross sectional study - Hartling, L.; Ospina, M.; Liang, Y. (British Medical Journal, 2009)
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The automation of science - King, R.D.; Rowland, J.; Oliver, S.G. (Science, 2009)
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - Higgins, JPT; Green, S (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008)

Remedying education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India - Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Cole, Shawn; Duflo, Esther; Linden, Leigh (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007)
Abstract. This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to
Keywords: Quality: H; Relevance: M; ___working_potential_duplicate

Transformative Paradigm: Mixed Methods and Social Justice - Mertens, Donna (Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2007)
The intersection of mixed methods and social justice has implications for the role of the researcher and choices of specific paradigmatic perspectives. The transformative paradigm with its associated philosophical assumptions provides a framework for addressing inequality and injustice in society using culturally competent, mixed methods strategies. The recognition that realities are constructed and shaped by social, political, cultural, economic, and racial/ethnic values indicates that power and privilege are important determinants of which reality will be privileged in a research context. Methodological inferences based on the underlying assumptions of the transformative paradigm reveal the potential strength of combining qualitative and quantitative methods. A qualitative dimension is needed to gather community perspectives at each stage of the research process, while a quantitative dimension provides the opportunity to demonstrate outcomes that have credibility for community members and scholars. Transformative mixed methodologies provide a mechanism for addressing the complexities of research in culturally complex settings that can provide a basis for social change. … Read more

Teacher Turnover in Malawi's Ministry of Education: Realities and Challenges - Kayuni, Happy; Tambulasi, Richard (International Education Journal, 2007)
The teaching profession is no longer a concern of academicians but the public in general who yearn for positive results. Internationally, the profession is continuously beset by several serious problems. One of the most serious problems in the teaching profession is teacher turnover. Governments are finding it difficult to retain teachers in schools. In Malawi, this problem is profound and overwhelming, even by Sub-Saharan standards. The paper heavily relies on secondary data derived from general trends and observations of several research findings as well as government publications, newspapers and several academic papers. The paper argues that main cause of this problem in Malawi can be attributed to general poor working conditions. The paper further argues that retention measures derived by the Malawi government may take time to bear fruits and it is unlikely that they can seriously affect teachers positively because they do not address the basic immediate needs of the teachers. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Keywords: Developing Nations; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Faculty Mobility; Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Persistence; Teaching (Occupation); Teaching Conditions; ⛔ No DOI found

Intraclass correlation values for planning group-randomized trials in education - Hedges, Larry V.; Hedberg, E. C. (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007)
Experiments that assign intact groups to treatment conditions are increasingly common in social research. In educational research, the groups assigned are often schools. The design of group-randomized experiments requires knowledge of the intraclass correlation structure to compute statistical power and sample sizes required to achieve adequate power. This article provides a compilation of intraclass correlation values of academic achievement and related covariate effects that could be used for planning group-randomized experiments in education. It also provides variance component information that is useful in planning experiments involving covariates. The use of these values to compute the statistical power of group-randomized experiments is illustrated.

A systematic comparison of software dedicated to meta-analysis of causal studies - Bax, L.; Yu, L.-M.; Ikeda, N. (BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2007)

Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering - Kitchenham, BA; Charters, S (EBSE Technical Report, 2007)

Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons and challenges - Cassidy, T (Inter-American Development Bank, 2006)
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Malawi National ICT for Development (ICT4D) Policy - Government of Malawi (2006)
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Monitoring and evaluation of ICT in education projects. A handbook for developing countries - Wagner, Daniel A.; Day, Bob; James, Tina; Kozma, Robert B.; Miller, Jonathan; Unwin, Tim (Washington DC: infoDev. Retrieved July, 2005)
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Design-based research and technology-enhanced learning environments - Wang, Feng; Hannafin, Michael J. (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2005)

Can free primary education meet the needs of the poor?: evidence from Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme; Rose, Pauline (International Journal of Educational Development, 2003)
Following elections in 1994, the Government of Malawi embarked on an ambitious programme of free primary education (FPE), resulting in a dramatic increase in enrolment. The paper argues that the policy did not sufficiently consider the ways in which direct and indirect costs of schooling continue to be prohibitive for some households, or the effects that the expansion would have on quality. The relevance of education for the majority of children who receive only a few years of primary schooling is also questioned. The paper suggests that FPE might not be contributing to the achievement of poverty alleviation goals, as intended.
Keywords: Development; Educational policy; Gender; International education; Malawi; Poverty

Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence - Singer, Judith D.; Willett, John B. (Oxford University Press, USA, 2003)
Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise after a coaching course, drug abusers may remain abstinent after residential treatment. By charting changes over time and investigating whether and when events occur, researchers reveal the temporal rhythms of our lives. Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis is a much-needed professional book for empirical researchers and graduate students in the behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. It offers the first accessible in-depth presentation of two of today's most popular statistical methods: multilevel models for individual change and hazard/survival models for event occurrence (in both discrete- and continuous-time). Using clear, concise prose and real data sets from published studies, the authors take you step by step through complete analyses, from simple exploratory displays that reveal underlying patterns through sophisticated specifications of complex statistical models.Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis offers readers a private consultation session with internationally recognized experts and represents a unique contribution to the literature on quantitative empirical methods.Visit http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/alda.htm for:DT Downloadable data setsDT Library of computer programs in SAS, SPSS, Stata, HLM, MLwiN, and moreDT Additional material for data analysis
Keywords: Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General; Medical / Epidemiology; Psychology / Statistics

Designing a research project: randomised controlled trials and their principles - Kendall, J. M. (Emergency Medicine Journal, 2003)
The sixth paper in this series discusses the design and principles of randomised controlled trials.
Keywords: randomised controlled trials; research

The impact of parental involvement, parental support and family education on pupil achievements and adjustment: a literature review - Desforges, Charles; Abouchaar, Alberto (DfES, 2003)

Core Keywording Strategy - EPPI Centre (2003)

Policies and Guidelines | - National Commission for Science and Technology (2002)

Hierarchical linear models: applications and data analysis methods - Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Bryk, Anthony S. (Advanced quantitative techniques in the social sciences, 2002)
Keywords: Linear models (Statistics); Social sciences; Statistical methods

Rapid Assessment Process: An Introduction - Beebe, James (Rowman Altamira, 2001)
A newer edition of this book is available at the following address: https: //rowman.com/ISBN/9780759123212 Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) has gone under many names but invariably uses the techniques of fieldwork and ethnography in a telescoped manner to provide solid, field-based research findings for use by policymakers and program planners. It uses an emic perspective, a team of researchers, triangulation of research findings, and iterative process to produce high-quality research in a fraction of the time taken by traditional ethnography. Long used for third world projects, RAP is now being used to inform policy in many different settings. This volume is the first introduction to this group of methods, explaining to researchers and to students how to do RAP research well. The author, an international development professional who has been doing RAP studies for over two decades, clearly outlines the process, promise and pitfalls of RAP in this brief volume. Included are many examples of successful RAP studies and clear guidance to readers on how to embark on their own RAP research
Keywords: Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Research

Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the first last - Chambers, Robert (Practical Action Publishing, 1999)
In this sequel to Rural Development: Putting the last first Robert Chambers argues that central issues in development have been overlooked, and that many past errors have flowed from domination by those with power. Through analysing experience - of past mistakes and myths, and of the continuing methodological revolution of PRA (participatory rural appraisal) - the author points towards solutions. In many countries, urban and rural people alike have shown an astonishing ability to express and analyse their local, complex and diverse realities which are often at odds with the top-down realities imposed by professionals. The author argues that personal, professional and institutional change is essential if the realities of the poor are to receive greater recognition. Whose Reality Counts? presents a radical challenge to all concerned with development, whether practitioners, researchers or policy-makers, in all organizations and disciplines, and at all levels from fieldworkers to the heads of agencies.This is a thought-provoking book and it would interest all those concerned with the realities of the poor in the developing world.

An interactive system for finding complementary literatures: a stimulus to scientific discovery - Swanson, DR; Smalheiser, NR (Artificial Intelligence, 1997)
An unintended consequence of specialization in science is poor communication across specialties. Information developed in one area of research may be of value in another without anyone becoming aware of the fact. We describe and evaluate interactive software and database search strategies that facilitate the discovery of previously unknown cross specialty information of scientific interest. The user begins by searching MEDLINE for article titles that identify a problem or topic of interest. From downloaded titles the software constructs input for additional database searches and produces a series of heuristic aids that help the user select a second set of articles complementary to the first set and from a different area of research. The two sets are complementary if together they can reveal new useful information that cannot be inferred from either set alone. The software output further helps the user identify the new information and derive from it a novel testable hypothesis. We report several successful tests and applications of the system.
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Basic Concepts and Techniques of Rapid Appraisal - Beebe, James (Human Organization, 1995)

Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods - Bryk, Anthony S.; Raudenbush, Stephen W. (Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods, 1992)
Much social and behavioral research involves hierarchical data structures. . . . Recent developments in the statistical theory of hierarchical linear models now afford an integrated set of methods for such applications. This introductory text explicates the theory and use of hierarchical linear models (HLM) through rich, illustrative examples and lucid explanations. The presentation remains reasonably nontechnical by focusing on three general research purposes—improved estimation of effects within an individual unit, estimating and testing hypotheses about cross-level effects, and partitioning of variance and covariance components among levels. This innovative volume describes use of both two and three level models in organizational research, studies of individual development and meta-analysis applications, and concludes with a formal derivation of the statistical methods used in the book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Mathematical Modeling; Statistical Analysis

Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology - Davis, Fred D. (MIS Quarterly, 1989)
Valid measurement scales for predicting user acceptance of computers are in short supply. Most subjective measures used in practice are unvalidated, and their relationship to system usage is unknown. The present research develops and validates new scales for two specific variables, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, which are hypothesized to be fundamental determinants of user acceptance. Definitions for these two variables were used to develop scale items that were pretested for content validity and then tested for reliability and construct validity in two studies involving a total of 152 users and four application programs. The measures were refined and stream-lined, resulting in two six-item scales with reliabilities of.98 for usefulness and.94 for ease of use. The scales exhibited high convergent, discriminant, and factorial validity. Perceived usefulness was significantly correlated with both self-reported current usage (r=.63, Study 1) and self-predicted future usage (r=.85, Study 2). Perceived ease of use was also significantly correlated with current usage (r=.45, Study 1) and future usage (r=.59, Study 2). In both studies, usefulness had a significantly greater correlation with usage behavior than did ease of use. Regression analyses suggest that perceived ease of use may actually be a causal antecedent to perceived usefulness, as opposed to a parallel, direct determinant of system usage. Implications are drawn for future research on user acceptance.

A spiral model of software development and enhancement - Boehm, B. W. (Computer, 1988)
A short description is given of software process models and the issues they address. An outline is given of the process steps involved in the spiral model, an evolving risk-driven approach that provides a framework for guiding the software process, and its application to a software project is shown. A summary is given of the primary advantages and implications involved in using the spiral model and the primary difficulties in using it at its current incomplete level of elaboration.<>
Keywords: Application software; Military computing; Navigation; Productivity; Programming; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Spirals; Testing

A spiral model of software development and enhancement - Boehm, B. W. (Computer, 1988)
A short description is given of software process models and the issues they address. An outline is given of the process steps involved in the spiral model, an evolving risk-driven approach that provides a framework for guiding the software process, and its application to a software project is shown. A summary is given of the primary advantages and implications involved in using the spiral model and the primary difficulties in using it at its current incomplete level of elaboration.<>
Keywords: Application software; Military computing; Navigation; Productivity; Programming; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Spirals; Testing

ASReview - Active learning for Systematic Reviews (ASReview)
Our software ASReview is designed to accelerate the step of screening abstracts and titles with a minimum of papers to be read.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

ATLAS.ti | The #1 Software for Qualitative Data Analysis (ATLAS.ti)
ATLAS.ti helps you uncover actionable insights with intuitive research tools and best-in-class technology. Try it for free today!

Automation tools in EPPI-Reviewer
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colandr
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Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers
A unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research (Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research)
ChatGPT for Research. Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that finds and summarizes scientific research papers. Just ask a question!
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Consensus & GPTs for Academic Research Like Consensus (2024)

Covidence - Better systematic review management

Creating Localizable Learning Apps

Discover Scholarcy Features - Try it now! (Scholarcy | The long-form article summariser)
Discover the innovative features of our cutting-edge tool designed to revolutionize the way students researcher study and summarize articles.

DistillerSR | Systematic Review Software | Literature Review Software (DistillerSR)
DistillerSR is the leading systematic review software that automates every stage of your review to produce evidence-based research faster and more accurately.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

dmetar - Companion R Package for the Guide Doing Meta-Analysis in R
Serves as the companion R package for the open-source guide Doing Meta Analysis in R. Aimed at beginners, the package contains complementary functions to facilitate performing meta-analysis using the meta, metafor, netmeta and gemtc packages.
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Elicit: Find scientific research papers
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EPPI-Reviewer: systematic review software
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Future Tools - Find The Exact AI Tool For Your Needs
FutureTools Collects & Organizes All The Best AI Tools So YOU Too Can Become Superhuman!

Grantable
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How broadband, digitization and ICT regulation impact the global economy Global econometric modelling

How to Use ChatGPT for Academic Purposes (Academic Insight Lab)
Exploring the ethical concerns and legitimate uses of ChatGPT in academic settings, including knowledge curation, data analysis, and generating new data points. Best practices for using ChatGPT are also discussed. Join today for free and begin using our AI tools, which are built using the most advan

Iris.ai - Your Researcher Workspace – Leading AI for your research challenge (Iris.ai - Your Researcher Workspace)
AI for scientific text understanding - literature reviews, research data extraction, post-market surveillance, and other tedious tasks.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Lateral.io: Enhancing Literature Review Speed
Lateral.io is a tool that helps researchers save time and improve efficiency by organizing and analyzing research papers, allowing for faster information retrieval and collaboration.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

litbaskets
LITBASKETS — Supporting literature searches for Information Systems researchers.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

LitSonar
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Malawi GDP - Gross Domestic Product 2021 | countryeconomy.com

Mapping research and innovation in the Republic of Malawi - UNESCO Digital Library

Meeting the Data Challenge in Education

NVivo (Lumivero)
NVivo qualitative data analysis software helps to discover richer insights from your qualitative & mixed methods research. Organize, store, and analyze data today!

OpenAI API Pricing 2024: Understanding GPT-3 Pricing In-Depth
Discover what determines the GPT-3 pricing and how to calculate the approximate cost for your project.

Parsifal - Perform Systematic Literature Reviews (Parsifal)
Parsifal is a tool to support researchers to perform systematic literature reviews. Performing a systematic literature review is a labor-intensive task that requires a huge amount of work from the researcher. Parsifal will help you planning, conducting and reporting the review.

Perplexity

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Keywords: _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:analysis:nopdf

Research Rabbit
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Research Solutions Announces Acquisition of scite
Research Solutions announces their acquisition of scite, a search and discovery platform leveraging AI to increase the discoverability and evaluation of research.

RevMan
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RobotReviewer (RobotReviewer)
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Scanlitt
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Scholarcy Summarizer Review: Pricing, Features, & More
Ultimate Scholarcy summarizer review. 1. Working process 2. Pricing and plan 3. Technical details 4. Features and functionalities 5. Security and customer support 6. Pros and cons.

SciPub+ | Revolutionize Your Academic Writing
Empowering Researchers with AI-Driven Writing Tools

Scite.ai (AI for Research) (scite.ai)
Ask a question, get an answer backed by real research. Scite is trusted by leading universities, publishers, and corporations across the world.

Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
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SESRA

srdb.pro
SRDB.PRO is the first enterprise level literature review and data analysis platform designed specifically for the Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare consultancies. A truly comprehensive literature review solution, supports all aspects of the review process, from searches through to report generation. And all from a single software platform. SRDB.PRO enhances productivity, increases accuracy and drives greater profitability by reducing the amount of time needed to manage and produce accurate reviews and secondary evidence. Visit us at www.srdb.pro

SWIFT-Active Screener (Sciome)
SWIFT-Active Screener is a web-based, collaborative systematic review software application. Active Screener was designed to be easy-to-use, incorporating a simple, but powerful, graphical user interface with rich project status updates. What makes Active Screener special, however, is its behind-the-scenes application of state-of-the-art statistical models designed to save screeners time and effort by automatically prioritizing articles […]

Typeset (AI Chat for scientific PDFs | SciSpace)
Chat with PDF and conduct your literature review faster using SciSpace. Discover 200M+ papers or upload your own PDF, highlight text or ask questions, and extract explanations and summaries.
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Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

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Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v2; _zenodoETH

WebPlotDigitizer - Extract data from plots, images, and maps

What is the AppMap - Google Docs

Aliim – Smartphone Schools Program - Aliim.org

EduApp4Syria Prize - All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development - All Children Reading

ATLAS.ti AI Lab | Accelerating Innovation for Data Analysis - ATLAS.ti (ATLAS.ti)
Powered by OpenAI, ATLAS.ti revolutionizes qualitative data analysis — bringing you light-speed insights.

Siyakha Girls Economic Empowerment Initiative - Bantwana World Education Initiative
Bantwana’s Siyakha Girls model is designed to strengthen the economic resilience of vulnerable adolescent girls and young women (AGYW).

Siyakha Girls Pilot - Bantwana - Bantwana World Education Initiative

The centrality of peer interaction in technology-supported personalized learning - Bapna, Akanksha

Acceptable Usage Policy - Bishops Diosecan College (Bishops Diosecan College)

Safeguarding Girls and Boys: When Chatbots answer their private questions - Brown, Isabelle Amazon; Binder, Gerda (UNICEF)

Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-Income Countries - Castillo, Nathan; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn
Keywords: _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:analysis:nopdf; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Designing Teacher Learning Circles for Improved Foundational Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from the National Numeracy Programme in Malawi - Correa de Oliveira, André; Kanyoza, Charity; Boilo, Violet; Chidothi, Emmanuel; Kadzamira, Esme; Mpoola, Dorothy; McBurnie, Chris; Phiri, Magret; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _forthcoming; _r:AddedByZotZen

Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in the Context of the National Numeracy Programme in Malawi: Findings from a Rapid In-depth Qualitative Study - Correa de Oliveira, André; Kanyoza, Charity; Lurvink, Anne-Fleur; Boilo, Violet; Kadzamira, Esme; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub)
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Crisis response can and should include education — Curious Learning - Curious Learning

Curious Learning - Curious Learning

Curious Learning, Global Digital Library and Chimple Apps - Languages with IDs - Spec Sheet - Google Sheets - Curious Learning

Literacy League — Curious Learning - Curious Learning

Timeline - Curious Learning

Tools for your toolbox: Collecting data for cost-effectiveness with the Brookings Childhood Cost Calculator - D'Rozario, Jonny; Mitchell, Joel

Integrating digital personalised learning into pre-primary classroom practice: a teacher-researcher multiple-case study partnership in Kenya - Daltry, Rebecca; Major, Louis; Otieno, Mary; Otieno, Kevin; Jordan, Katy; Moustafa, Nariman
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Educate! | Preparing youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. - Educate! (Educate! | Preparing youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy.)
Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to start businesses, get jobs, and drive development

Impact Evaluation Results - Educate!

Impact Evaluation Results - Educate!

Monitoring & Evaluation Approach — Educate! | Preparing youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. - Educate!

Out-of-School Youth Solutions — Educate! | Preparing youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. - Educate!

Acceptable Use Policies for the Internet - Education World

Launch of Scopus AI to Help Researchers Navigate the World of Research - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)
Developed and tested with the research community, Scopus AI combines the world’s largest database of curated scientific literature with responsible AI

Scopus AI: Trusted content. Powered by responsible AI. - Elsevier Products (www.elsevier.com)
Scopus AI combines generative artificial intelligence with Scopus’ trusted content and data to help researchers accelerate their research.

Enuma - Enuma
The Best Learning Solution for Children Around the World

Feynman AI - Feynman AI
Feynman - An AI assistant to make reading, writing and understanding academic literature easier.

Home - Global Digital Library - - Global Digital Library

Global education monitoring report, 2023: technology in education: a tool on whose terms? - Global Education Monitoring Report Team
UNESCO Digital Library

Agile delivery - Service Manual - GOV.UK - GOV.UK (GOV.UK)
How to work in an agile way: principles, tools and governance.

National Numeracy Programme | Malawi - Government of Malawi

Developing collaborations and technology for evidence synthesis - Haddaway, Martin Westgate & Neal (Evidence Synthesis Hackathon)
An event series to develop open software for evidence synthesis
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

RobotAnalyst (National Centre for Text Mining — NaCTEM) - Heatley, Louise M.
META-NET Project.

Responsible Use Policy: A Guide for Schools - HiddenApp

Every Adolescent Girl Empowered and Resilient (EAGER) - International Rescue Committee (IRC)
A project designed to create accessible and empowering learning opportunities for out-of-school adolescent girls in Sierra Leone, strengthening their knowledge, skills, and agency to shape their lives.

Exercise B: How to do random assignment using MS Excel - J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab)

JABSOM Library: Colandr for Systematic Reviews: Introducing Colandr - Kahili-Heede, Melissa
Using the systematic review tool for title and abstract screening, full-text article screening, and data extraction

Scholarcy (Online Summarizing Tool | Flashcard Generator & Summarizer) - kssNvYB7y66y (Scholarcy | The long-form article summariser)
Scholarcy™ is an online summarizing tool that generates and converts long articles into summary flashcards. Sign up free & start summarizing

Malawi - LNGB Consortium

Can Nudge Messaging Positively Influence School Attendance? - Longley, Sophie (EdTech Hub)
In Northern Ghana, Wunni Sabo's decision to prioritise his daughter's education, inspired by nudge messaging, is helping to spark a movement for learning. Click to read this story of change.

A dialogic design-based research partnership approach: developing close-to-practice educational technology theory in Kenya (Forthcomming) - Major, Louis; Daltry, Rebecca; Rahman, Asad; Plaut, Daniel; Otieno, Mary; Otieno, Kevin (Global Perspectives on Teaching with Technology: Theories, Case Studies and Integration Strategies)
Design-based research (DBR) has promise for investigating educational technology in low- and middle-income contexts. However, DBR is implemented infrequently in such settings, highlighting a need for guidance on implementation. This chapter critically reflects on innovative DBR involving Kenyan teachers and research partners over two years. This focused on the iterative evaluation of a ‘digital personalised learning’ tool to improve its integration into classroom practice. This DBR promoted teacher-researcher engagement through adopting a dialogue-informed 'intermediate theory building' framework, bridging the theory-practice gap. Additionally, it enhanced inclusivity by broadening the concept of partnership through an ‘integrated’ approach. Lessons learned and practical implications are highlighted. Outcomes establish a novel foundation for applying DBR to enhance educational technology for marginalised learners.

Learning continuity in response to Pakistan’s 2022 floods: Policy brief - Mazari, Haani; Baloch, Imdad; Thinley, Sangay; Radford, Kate; Perry, Freya; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Let’s Chat: Chatbot Nudging for Improved Course Performance - Meyer, Katharine; Page, Lindsay C.; Smith, Eric; Walsh, B. Tyler; Fifield, C. Lindsey; Evans, Michael
Despite documented benefits to college completion, more than a third of students who initially enroll in college do not ultimately earn a credential. Completing college requires students to navigate both institutional administrative tasks (e.g., registering for classes) and academic tasks within courses (e.g., completing homework). In postsecondary education, several promising interventions have shown that text-based outreach and communication can be a low-cost, easy to implement, and effective strategy for supporting administrative task navigation. In this paper, we report on two randomized controlled trials testing the effect of a text-based chatbot with artificial intelligence (AI) capability on students' academic task navigation in introductory courses (political science and economics). We find the academic chatbot significantly shifted students’ final grades, increasing the likelihood students received a course grade of B or higher by 5-6 percentage points and reduced the likelihood students dropped the course.

Education in Emergencies: A Rapid Evidence Review - Mitchell, Joel; Ashlee, Amy; Clericetti, Giulia; Gladwell, Jessica; Torrance, Rebecca (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v3; _zenodoETH

Cost-Effective EdTech Paper 3 - Mitchell, Joel; D'Rozario, Jonny (EdTech Hub)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByZotZen

Great buy or just low cost? Lessons on cost-effectiveness from messaging interventions in West Africa - Mitchell, Joel; Mukankusi, Aimée; D'Rozario, Jonny (EdTech Hub)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/
Keywords: Coming soon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

nawiripro | Karibu - Nawiripro

Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (CSEE) Results - NECTA

OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system - OpenAlex
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Innovative Research Methodologies: Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PEER). - Oyinloye, Bukola
This podcast is the third in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Empowering emerging tech leaders - Re:Coded

Technology Acceptable Use Agreement - Ridgewood Public Schools (Ridgewood Public Schools)

Rising Academies - Rising Academies

Sierra Leone TCPD Sandbox Report - Tanweer, Rabia; Plaut, Daniel; McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Toolkits Platform - Ubongo

JP Malawi Girls' Education | MPTF Office - UNDP

Education Budget Brief 2020 - UNICEF; Government of Tanzania (2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

DREAMS: Partnership To Reduce Hiv/Aids In Adolescent Girls And Young Women | Global Health | U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID

Technology for Data Collection Processing and Communication for EiE - USAID

Using technology to deliver high quality education | VSO - VSO

War Child Care System - Can't Wait to Learn | War Child - War Child Holland

We believe no child should be part of war. Ever. | War Child - War Child Holland

Development Projects : Skills for A Vibrant Economy Project - P172627 - World Bank (World Bank)
Development Projects : Skills for A Vibrant Economy Project - P172627

Procurement Details - World Bank (World Bank)

World Bank Open Data: Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) - Malawi - World Bank (World Bank Open Data)
Free and open access to global development data

Research Guides: AI-Based Literature Review Tools: Home - Xiao, Daniel
Research Guides: AI-Based Literature Review Tools: Home
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Nudge Messaging and School Attendance in Ghana: Determining the Impact of Tailored Message Characteristics - Zhao, Annette; D'Rozario, Jonny; Kably, Nathan; Jayasinghe, Neema; Mukankusi, Aimée
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/
Keywords: Coming soon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence