Pakistan Social & Living Standards Measurement Survey (2018-19) - Government of Pakistan (Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, 2020)

Pakistan Social & Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) 2018-19 National /Provincial (Social Report) - Government of Pakistan (Government of Pakistan, 2020)

Report on First Biannual Monitoring on the Implementation of National Finance Commission Award - Government of Pakistan (2020)

Education Sector COVID-19 Contingency Plan - Government of Nigeria (2020)

Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme Strategic Plan 2022 - 2027 - Government of Malawi; UNICEF (2022)

The Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) - Government of Malawi; UNICEF (2020)

Building Educational Foundations through Innovation & Technology (BEFIT): Malawi Scale-Up Program Overview - Government of Malawi (2023)

Education Sector Budget Proposal Report 2023/24 - Government of Kenya (Government of Kenya, 2023)

Report of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform: ​​Transforming education, training and research for sustainable development in Kenya - Government of Kenya (2023)

The Promise of Inclusive Digital Learning in Kenya - Government of Kenya (2022)

DIKSHA - Government of India (DIKSHA - Government of India, 2021)
National Digital Infrastructure for Our Teachers, Our Heroes.

Compendium of Social Protection Research in Bangladesh - Government of Bangladesh (The General Economics Division (GED), Bangladesh Planning Commission, 2020)

COVID-19 Response and Recovery Plan - Government of Bangladesh (2020)

2021-2022 Budget Document Archives - Government of Balochistan (2021)

Balochistan Education Sector Plan: 2020-2025 - Government of Balochistan (2020)

Education Management Information System (EMIS) - Government of Balochistan (2022)

EdTech and Covid-19: the story so far - Gould, Briony (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _r:AddedByZotZen

Overview of emerging country-level response to providing educational continuity under COVID-19: Best practice in pedagogy for remote teaching - Gould, Briony (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Overview of emerging country-level response to providing educational continuity under COVID-19: Best practice in pedagogy for remote teaching Full Report PDF Download Scope of Report This report provides a rapid evidence summary of what is known about best practice in teaching when school students are educated by distance learning. It considers both theoretical concepts and empirical evidence relating to the…
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

What are countries doing that already use remote learning extensively? What can we learn from them? - Gould, Briony (EdTech Hub, 2020)
What are countries doing that already use remote learning extensively? What can we learn from them? Full Report PDF Download Summary of report What’s on this page Summary of report Scope of study Key themes Scope of study This report provides a rapid evidence summary of the history, evolution, coverage, impact (successes and challenges) of remote learning in four countries…
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

What can be learnt from China’s recent experiences with Covid-19 and school closures that can inform other countries’ education technology-enabled responses? - Gould, Briony (EdTech Hub, 2020)
What can be learnt from China’s recent experiences with Covid-19 and school closures that can inform other countries’ education technology-enabled responses? Full Report PDF Download Summary of report What’s on this page Summary of report Scope of study Summary of findings China’s response to Covid-19 built on the distinctive foundations of its existing education political economy, in particular China appears…
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

An international review of plans for school reopening - Gorgen, Kristine; McAleavy, Tony (Education Development Trust, 2020)
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An international review of plans for school reopening - Gorgen, Kristine; McAleavy, Tony (Education Development Trust, 2020)

An international review of plans for school reopening - Gorgen, Kristine; McAleavy, Tony (Education Development Trust, 2020)

Future Press Release - Google (Design Sprints with Google, 2020)

Will COVID-19 help to clarify ICT integration into education in Malawi? - Gondwe, Foster (The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET), 2020)
This blog was written by Foster Gondwe, Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Malawi, and currently a PhD student at Hiroshima University, Japan.  Preamble To join global efforts in curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) in Malawi closed all schools, colleges and universities from Monday, 23rd […]

A COVID-19 intervention: Using digital escape rooms to provide professional development to alternative certification educators - Gómez, Miguel (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020)
Teachers, support staff, schools, and school districts have faced a multitude of challenges in adapting their known and familiar practices to the new realities and restrictions that have been put in place due to the outbreak of COVID-19. These challenges are daunting and difficult for many in our education system. Fortunately, a numerous amount of our educators are resilient, creative, and determined to overcome these new challenges. Using their prior experiences and wis- dom, these educators can adapt and change to our new edu- cational environment. However, one group of educators have faced these challenges without the benefit of educational ex- periences. Alternative certification teachers, in just their first year of teaching, with no prior educational experience, have been thrust into this new post COVID-19 landscape. Using a digital escape room as a model, the author provided these inexperienced educators with professional development in problem-based learning designed to help these teachers navi- gate this new educational landscape.
Keywords: Alternative Teacher Certification; Beginning Teachers; Communicable Diseases; Disease Control; Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary Education; Faculty Development; Problem Based Learning; Problem Solving; Puzzles; Technology Uses in Education; ⛔ No DOI found

A Design Approach to Mathematics Teacher Educator Development in East Africa - Golding, Jennie; Batiibwe, Marjorie Sarah K. (Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2021)
Mathematical functioning in sub-Saharan Africa remains persistently weak in global terms. This limits the flourishing of young people and communities in the region. Moreover, affordable, effective ways to address the issue are not well established. This paper analyses outcomes from a blended learning 'Mathematical Thinking and IT' course, iteratively adapted for East African primary mathematics teacher educators. The course adopted theoretical approaches derived from the mathematics, teacher and technology education literatures. It aimed to address the problem of low mathematical functioning by equipping participants for their own work, and also for supporting local collaborative teacher development workshops. The reported study asked, 'What are the affordances and constraints of the adapted course and the available technology for mathematics teacher educator development in this context?' A variety of qualitative tools were used to track the course's impact on the ten mathematics teacher educator participants over six months, as they attempted to transfer course learning to their home professional context. The analysis adopted an ethnographic lens. Outcomes suggested participants with a broad mathematical and pedagogical capacity for change, including critical levels of reflection, made significant progress in their technological, mathematical and mathematics pedagogical expertise. However, teacher educators without such a threshold capacity appeared not able to re-envision practice. Free subject-specific software was appreciated by all participants, but not yet reliably accessible in these teacher educators' institutional contexts. The reported study evidences the potential for affordable, sustainable, development of many mathematics teacher educators in this context, but further research is needed. Similar courses should take account of local technological and education constraints.
Keywords: Blended Learning; Distance Education; Elementary School Mathematics; Foreign Countries; Mathematics Teachers; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Professional Development; Program Effectiveness; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher Educators; Technological Literacy; Technology Integration

A Cascade Teacher Training Model in Disaster Education: A Case of Turkey - Gökmenoğlu, Tuba; Sönmez, Elif Daşçı; Yavuz, İbrahim (2021)
Individuals' reluctance to take precautions before the disasters happen is one of the most critical concerns of the disaster management area. The disaster education given through schools is a critical process in addressing this problem. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the teacher training program model and the implementation practices of Turkey's School-Based Disaster Education Project. In Turkey, there are few studies regarding the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation stages of Disaster Risk Reduction education for teachers. The project has been carried out within the framework of the Ministry of National Education and Japan International Cooperation Agency. An at-scale cascade teacher professional development model was implemented. The model reached 135,375 teachers in 67 provinces by the 567 trainer teachers in a relatively short time with the cascade training system. This project has brought a significant nationwide disaster risk reduction training experience for Turkey with its economic and sustainable structure.

Learning and working in the digital age: Advancing opportunities and identifying the risks - Goger, Annelies; Parco, Allyson; Vegas, Emiliana (Brookings, 2022)
Annelies Goger, Allyson Parco, and Emiliana Vegas provide a high-level map of the landscape of education and labor market innovations in formal and informal education.

A review of Empirical Research on School Leadership in the Global South - Global School Leaders (2020)
Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries

Application and program document for COVID-19 accelerated funding for Kenya - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Cover Note for COVID-19 Accelerated Funding Request - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Cover note for COVID-19 accelerated funding request - Global Partnership for Education (Global Partnership for Education, 2020)

Education in Madagascar - Global Partnership for Education (2020)
See education data for Madagascar and learn about GPE programs, grants, results and progress.

Education in Pakistan - Global Partnership for Education (Global Partnership for Education, 2021)
See education data for Pakistan and learn about GPE programs, grants, results and progress.

Education in Tanzania - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Education in Tanzania - Global Partnership for Education (Global Partnership for Education website, 2021)
See education data for Tanzania and learn about GPE programs, grants, results and progress.

Education in Yemen - Global Partnership for Education (2020)
See education data for Yemen and learn about GPE programs, grants, results and progress.

Ghana COVID-19 Accelerated Funding Application Form - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Global Partnership for Education - Global Partnership for Education (2021)

Global Partnership for Education provides $68 million in grants for education response to COVID-19 (coronavirus) - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Grant request to finance Rwanda COVID-19 education response from COVID-19 accelerated funding window under the GPE fund - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

KENYA GPE COVID 19 Learning Continuity in Basic Education Project - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Kenya Partnership Compact. 2021 | Documents | Global Partnership for Education - Global Partnership for Education (2021)

Programa de Educação em Emergência 2020-2021 financiado pela Parceria Global da Educação - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Proposal for GPE Accelerated Funding for COVID-19 Response (Malawi) - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Zambia COVID-19 Accelerated Funding Application Form - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Accelerated recovery: Improving outcomes with blended learning - Global Online Learning Alliance (2020)

School re-openings and policies for resilient education, post covid-19 - Global Online Learning Alliance (2020)

Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (RCIP) Malawi - Global Infrastructure Hub (2021)
Only one in ten people in Malawi have access to information and communications technology (as of 2016). This is due to the high cost and complexity of developing the infrastructure and end-user service offering. However, the government plans to improve access to, and the affordability of, broadband connections. It is initiating projects to reach out to the most disadvantaged groups in society.

Teaching at the right level: from concern with exclusion to challenges of implementation - Global Education Monitoring Report Team; Pratham Resource Centre (India) (2020)

Act now: reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG 4 - UNESCO Digital Library - Global Education Monitoring Report Team (2020)

Education finance watch 2022 - Global Education Monitoring Report Team (UNESCO, 2022)

Global education monitoring report, 2020: Inclusion and education: all means all - UNESCO Digital Library - Global Education Monitoring Report (UNESCO, 2020)

#HerEducationOurFuture: keeping girls in the picture during and after the COVID-19 crisis;the latest facts on gender equality in education - Global Education Monitoring Report (2020)

Cost Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning: What Does Recent Evidence Tell Us Are Smart Buys for Improving Learning in Low-and-Middle Income Countries - Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank; FCDO; Building Evidence in Education, 2020)

Cost Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning What Does Recent Evidence Tell Us Are Smart Buys for Improving Learning in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries - Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank; FCDO; Building Evidence in Education, 2020)

Prioritizing Learning During Covid-19: The Most Effective Ways to Keep Children Learning During and Post-Pandemic - Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank, FCDO, and UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022)
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Prioritizing learning during COVID-19: The most effective ways to keep children learning during and postpandemic. - Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank, FCDO, and UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022)

EdTech supporting sex education for students in Malawi Global EdTech - Global EdTech (2022)

Launching sign languages on the Global Digital Library - Global Digital Library (Global Digital Library, 2020)

Launching sign languages on the Global Digital Library – Global Digital Library - Global Digital Library (2020)

Education Under Attack 2020 - Global Coalition to Prevent Education from Attack (GCPEA, 2020)

Strategies for supporting inclusive innovation: insights from South-East Asia - Glennie, Alex; Stanley, Isaac; Ollard, Juliet; Klingler-Vidra, Robyn (2020)
This report looks at how policymakers can support inclusive forms of innovation, drawing on insights from strategies and practices in South-East Asia.

State releases rules on learner capitation grants, school funds - Githinji, Irene (People Daily, 2021)
One of the policy goals is to enhance access and disbursement of learner capitation grants and other school funds to all public schools.

Designing and monitoring distance teaching and learning interventions: A guide for projects and implementers - Girls' Education Challenge; Fund Manager; EdTech Hub (2021)

Country Briefing: Nepal - Girls' Education Challenge (2021)

Quality Teaching Framework: A focus on marginalised girls - Girls' Education Challenge (2020)

Digital Learning Solutions | Digital Learning For Every Child - Giraldo, Juan Pablo; Tungatarova, Auken; Cooper, Rachel (EdTech Hub, 2021)
UNICEF and EdTech Hub are partnering together to improve learning outcomes through effective uses of EdTech and digital learning. Read this guest post from UNICEF team members which focuses on the first pillar of UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative, world-class digital learning solutions.

Back to school in Democratic Republic of Congo after COVID-19 state of emergency ends - Ging, John Paul (Africanews, 2020)

Using Transparency To Create Accountability When School Buildings Are Closed and Tests Are Canceled - Gill, Brian P. (Education Next, 2020)
The districts and schools most likely to succeed in remote education will be those that provide a substantial amount of synchronous instruction and live student–teacher interaction.

Reopening schools: When, where and how? - Giannini, Stefania; Jenkins, Robert; Saavedra, Jaime (World Bank Blogs, 2020)
Reopening schools: When, where and how?

Covid-19 school closures around the world will hit girls hardest - Giannini, Stefania; Albrectsen, Anne-Birgitte (UNESCO, 2020)
As COVID-19 forces school closures in 185 countries, Plan International and UNESCO warn of the potential for increased drop-out rates which will disproportionately affect adolescent girls, further entrench gender gaps in education and lead to increased risk of sexual exploitation, early pregnancy and early and forced marriage.

Build back better: Education must change after COVID-19 to meet the climate crisis - Giannini, Stefania (UNESCO, 2020)

Distance Learning Denied - Giannini, Stefania (World Education Blog, 2020)
Over 500 million of the world’s children and youth not accessing distance learning alternatives By Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Most countries around the world…

Minister for Education, US Ambassador launch Ghana Learning Radio Reading Program - Ghana Ministry of Education (Ghana Ministry of Education, 2020)
The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, together with the   U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan has launched the Ghana Learning Radio reading program. The radio program, which was developed in response to the closure of basic schools across the country due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, aims to engage parents, guardians/ caregivers, […]

COVID-19 Coordinated Education Response Plan for Ghana - Ghana Education Services (2020)

Ghana Learning TV May Timetable from KG to SHS - Ghana Education Service (2020)

Teachers’ virtual communities of practice: A strong response in times of crisis or just another Fad? - Ghamrawi, Norma (Education and Information Technologies, 2022)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived effectiveness of a virtual community of practice (vCoP) designed to support knowledge and expertise sharing between K-12 teachers during Covid-19 pandemic. Besides, it aimed at exploring the potential of such vCoPs in delivering effective professional development, in general, and during crisis in particular. The vCoP was developed by the researcher herself as part of a consultancy to the UNESCO. The sample included 696 participants who were members of the vCoP. The research methodology adopted was mixed methods. Quantitative data was collected through surveying; and qualitative data was collected through 8 focus group interviews each involving 6 participants. Statistical analysis was used to analyze survey data, while interviews data was analyzed using theme-based analysis. Findings showed that participants viewed vCoPs as effective tools for e-professional development in general and during crisis in particular. Facilitators and blockers confronting vCoP nourishment are presented and discussed. Discussions and conclusions are offered at the end of the study.
Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic; Crisis education; Professional development; Remote education; Social networking; Virtual communities of practice

Learning Losses in Pakistan Due to COVID-19 School Closures - Geven, Koen; Hasan, Amer (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020)

Lessons from Girls’ Education South Sudan (GESS) - GESS (2020)

e-modul: Gerbang Kurikulum - Gerbang Kurikulum (2021)

Making Vision 2041 a Reality: Perspective Plan of Bangladesh 2021-2041 - General Economics Division, Bangladesh Planning Commission, Ministry of Planning, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (2020)

Global education monitoring report 2020: gender report, A new generation: 25 years of efforts for gender equality in education - GEM (UNESCO Digital Library, 2020)

Enem 2021: Geekie Teste cobre 100% dos assuntos de Matemática e 93% de Ciências da Natureza - Geekie (Geekie, 2021)
Veja como continuar suas aulas com o apoio do Geekie One Nós somos a Geekie! Apoiamos escolas de todo o Brasil...

Retrospectiva Geekie 2021: (re)encontros de pessoas, caminhos e possibilidades - Geekie (Geekie, 2021)
Veja como continuar suas aulas com o apoio do Geekie One Nós somos a Geekie! Apoiamos escolas de todo o Brasil...

Case study: Sisters for Sisters' Education - GEC (VSO, 2021)

GEARR-ing Up for Success After School - GEC (2021)

Report on Sisters for Sisters’ Education Evaluation II Project Endline Evaluation by Foundation for Development Management - GEC (Foundation for Development Management, 2021)

Sisters for Sisters’ Education - GEC (2021)

Sisters for Sisters' Education project Final reflections: Achievements and lessons learned - GEC (2021)

The problem of issuance of fake degrees and its implications - Garg, Rachit (2021)

COVID-19 and remote learning : Experiences of parents with children during the pandemic - Garbe, Amber; Ogurlu, Uzeyir; Logan, Nikki; Cook, Perry (American Journal of Qualitative Research, 2020)
In the spring of 2020, schools across the globe closed their doors to decrease the spread of the viral outbreak during the COVID -19 pandemic. This physical closure led to a rapid shift to remote learning which placed more responsibility for learning on parents and guardians. As one of the major stakeholders in the education process, experiences of parents with their children during remote learning are worth examining to inform future policy decision making. This study aimed to investigate parents’ experiences and struggles during school closure using an online survey. Thematic coding was conducted to analyze parental responses regarding their greatest educational struggle experienced during the COVID school closure. The results indicate parents agreed with the school closure policy and were generally satisfied with the level of support provided by school districts whilst describing some areas of struggle. Parents described having difficulties with balancing responsibilities, learner motivation, accessibility, and learning outcomes. The results of the study suggest some important implications and recommendations for educators and policymakers.
Keywords: covid-19; pandemic; parents; remote learning; ⛔ No DOI found

Realizing the Promise: How can education technology improve learning for all? - Ganimian, Alejandro; Vegas, Emiliana; Hess, Frederick (Brookings Institute, 2020)

Rapid Assessment of Teleschool Initiative - Gallup Pakistan (2020)

How Secure Is the Bitcoin Blockchain, and Is Your Cryptocurrency Safe? - Gadgets 360 Newsdesk (2021)

Time for a safe back to school in Latin America and the Caribbean - Gabriela Alvarado, Maria (Save the Children International, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the dreams of more than 159 million children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean [1] on a long pause, all of whom have been affected by excessive periods without classes. In this region an average of 168 school days have been lost since schools closed...

Time for a safe back to school in Latin America and the Caribbean - Gabriela Alvarado, Maria (Save the Children International, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the dreams of more than 159 million children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean [1] on a long pause, all of whom have been affected by excessive periods without classes. In this region an average of 168 school days have been lost since schools closed...

ICT for All: Digital Inclusion Portal development - G3ict (Buys ICT 4 All, 2020)

Empowering parents and caregivers to support learning and a safe return to school - Fuller, Sarah; Brown, Jessica Katherine (UNICEF Europe and Central Asia, 2021)
Ongoing pandemic response, recovery and long-term resilience must consider parents and caregivers if we are to reach every child.

Transforming online teaching and learning: Towards learning design informed by information science and learning sciences - Fujita, Nobuko (Information and Learning Science, 2020)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the practical work of learning designers with the aim of helping members of the information science (IS) and learning sciences (LS) communities understand how evidence-informed learning design of online teaching and online learning in higher education is relevant to their research agendas and how they can contribute to this growing field. Design/methodology/approach: Illustrating how current online education instructional designs largely ignore evidence from research, this paper argues that evidence from IS and LS can encourage more effective and nuanced learning designs for e-learning and online education delivery and suggest how interdisciplinary collaboration can advance shared understanding. Findings: Recent reviews of the learning design show that tools and techniques from the LS can support students in self-directed and self-regulated learning. IS studies complement these approaches by highlighting the role that information systems and computer–human interaction. In this paper, the expertise from IS and LS are considered as important evidence to improve learning design, particularly vis-à-vis digital divide concerns that students face during the COVID-19 pandemic. Originality/value: This paper outlines important ties between the learning design, LS and IS communities. The combined expertise is key to advancing the nuanced design of online education, which considers issues of social justice and equity, and critical digital pedagogy.
Keywords: Higher education; Information science; Instructional design; Learning design; Learning sciences; Online learning; Online teaching; e-Learning

Conditional Cash Transfer, Loss Framing, and SMS Nudges: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh - Fujii, Tomoki; Ho, Christine; Ray, Rohan; Shonchoy, Abu (2021)
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become one of the most common policy interventions to increase school attendance, but the cost-eﬀectiveness of such interventions has not attracted the attention it deserves. Hence, in addition to a standard CCT implementation, we experimentally study two potential ways to improve the cost-eﬀectiveness of school attendance interventions: (i) SMS information nudges and (ii) loss framing in CCTs. The former provides school attendance information to parents and the latter exploits the endowment eﬀect. Consistent with the existing literature, CCT intervention signiﬁcantly increases school attendance. We also ﬁnd that the loss framing marginally increases attendance over and above the ∗We would like to thank Joseph Altonji, James Berry, Barbara Biasi, Gaurav Dutt, Maulik Jagnani, Costas Meghir, Rohini Pande, Rebecca Thornton, and seminar attendees at Monash and Yale for insightful comments and suggestions. We also thank Akshat Daga, Alekhyo Roychowdhury, Ishaan Malik, and Snehal Modi for research assistance. We beneﬁted from data collection support from MOMODa Foundation and technical support from the Metakave team to automate the process of sending SMS. Finally, we express our sincere gratitude to the participating schools, the students, their parents, and the teachers. Funding from the Shirin Fozdar and Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 Grant (17-C244-SMU-004) and Japan Center for Economic Research are gratefully acknowledged. This research was approved by the Singapore Management University Institutional Review Board (IRB-16-082-A092-C2(220)). The trial in this study was registered in the AEA RCT registry under AEARCTR-0002373. All mistakes remain ours.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Can A/B Testing at Scale Accelerate Learning Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Environments? - Friedberg, Aidan (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023)
On current trends the world will fail to reach the objectives set in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for Education by 2030 or even within the 21st century. Changing this trend will require a significant acceleration in learning outcomes. Digital personalised learning (DPL) tools are a potentially cost-effective intervention that can contribute to this acceleration. In particular, the continuous experimentation afforded by these tools through software A/B testing, has considerable potential to create compounding improvements in learning outcomes. This paper provides an overview of EIDU, an educational platform combining student focused DPL content with digital structured pedagogy programmes in public pre-primary schools in Kenya. Collection of student’s longitudinal unsupervised assessment data at scale creates the possibility of learning outcome focused A/B testing. This is a novel contribution to the development and research field as up until now this type of capability has largely been confined to students in high-income environments.

Education Systems and Technology in 1990, 2020, and Beyond - Frick, Theodore W. (TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020)
In "Restructuring Education Through Technology," I incorporated systems thinking to identify seven types of relationships in educational systems: teacher-student, student-content, student-context, teacher-content, teacher-context, content-context, and education system-environment relationships (Frick 1991). I now revisit these education system relations and discuss potential futures of education. The World Wide Web did not exist when I wrote the original treatise, nor did wireless smartphones and tablets, Google's search engine, YouTube, Facebook, or Wikipedia. However, one important education system relationship should not change: the affective bonding between teachers and their students. [For "Restructuring Education through Technology. Fastback 326," see ED350995.]
Keywords: Educational Practices; Educational Technology; Educational Trends; Futures (of Society); Systems Approach; Teacher Student Relationship

Government of Sierra Leone Education Data Hub: A User Research Report - Freiermuth, Sophie; Bedoui, Claire; Middleton, Emily; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Report on the Government of Sierra Leone Education Data Hub
Keywords: C:Sierra Leone; ES:Educational data; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v1; _zenodoETH

Teachers’ Skills and Skills Frameworks for Remote and Blended Learning Knowledge Pack - Freeman, Barbara; Raigosa Montoya,, Juliana (2022)

Freedom on the net, 2020: Pakistan - Freedom House (2020)

A model of distance special education support services amidst COVID-19 - Frederick, Janice; Raabe, Ginger; Rogers, Valerie; Pizzica, Jessica (Behavioural Analysis in Practice, 2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the everyday life of many individuals across the globe. The school closures across the majority of the United States have presented administrators, educators, and behavior analysts with the unprecedented task of deciding how best to teach and support our students, especially those accessing special education services. The current paper describes the steps our program took, in light of school closures, to advocate for and ultimately create and implement a model that allows special education students to access the behavior analytic educational supports they had received on campus (e.g., BCBA and paraprofessional support) in a novel and remote manner. We share details regarding the advocacy and collaboration process as well as the distance special education support model itself in hopes that similar processes and models can be implemented across geographical locations to assist special education students in accessing their educational and behavioral supports in a meaningful way throughout current and future school closures.
Keywords: Applied behavior analysis; California Department of; applied behavior analysis; california department of education; covid-19; nonpublic agency; special education

Interview with the Ghana Education Service on data governance practices within the Ghana Ministry of Education. - Fred, Binkorang (2023)

Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic - Fraser, Nicholas; Brierley, Liam; Dey, Gautam; Polka, Jessica K.; Pálfy, Máté; Nanni, Federico; Coates, Jonathon Alexis (bioRxiv, 2021)
The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over 98 million confirmed cases and 2.2 million deaths since January 2020. Although the most recent respiratory viral pandemic swept the globe only a decade ago, the way science operates and responds to current events has experienced a paradigm shift in the interim. The scientific community has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing over 125,000 COVID-19 related scientific articles within 10 months of the first confirmed case, of which more than 30,000 were hosted by preprint servers. We focused our analysis on bioRxiv and medRxiv, two growing preprint servers for biomedical research, investigating the attributes of COVID-19 preprints, their access and usage rates, as well as characteristics of their propagation on online platforms. Our data provides evidence for increased scientific and public engagement with preprints related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 preprints are accessed more, cited more, and shared more on various online platforms than non-COVID-19 preprints), as well as changes in the use of preprints by journalists and policymakers. We also find evidence for changes in preprinting and publishing behaviour: COVID-19 preprints are shorter and reviewed faster. Our results highlight the unprecedented role of preprints and preprint servers in the dissemination of COVID-19 science, and the impact of the pandemic on the scientific communication landscape.

2022 Annual Review of Education Beyond Aid project - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (2022)

Punjab Education Support Programme II - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (2020)
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Uso de la Plataforma Zoom y la Competencia se comunica Oralmente en su Lengua Materna en Estudiantes de Educación Secundaria de la Institución Educativa Unión Zapotillo N°64647-Yarinacocha 2020 - Flores Fasanando, Giuliana (Universidad Nacional de Ucayali, 2021)
La finalidad de esta investigación fue, determinar la relación que existe entre el uso de la plataforma zoom y la competencia se comunica oralmente en su lengua materna en estudiantes de educación secundaria de la institución educativa Unión Zapotillo N° 64647 - Yarinacocha 2020. De muestreo no probabilístico, de tipo básica o pura con diseño no experimental descriptivo correlacional con una muestra de 91 estudiantes. Como instrumento se utilizó un cuestionario para evaluar el uso de la plataforma Zoom y una guía de observación para evaluar la capacidad se comunica oralmente en su lengua materna. Finalmente, los datos fueron a la base de datos de Excel para procesarlos obteniendo un coeficiente de correlación de Pearson de r=0,720, se obtuvo un p=0.000, lo que confirma la existencia de una relación significativa, ya que p es menor a 0,05. Es decir, existe una correlación directa entre el uso de plataforma zoom y la competencia se comunica oralmente como lengua materna en estudiantes de educación secundaria de la institución educativa Unión Zapotillo N° 64647- Yarinacocha 2020.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

FlexiSAF | Home - FlexiSAF (2020)

EdTech to support blended learning in Mozambique A curated list of EdTech interventions to inform UNICEF Mozambique in their process of building a deeper understanding of blended learning mechanisms in the region. - Flam, Rebekka; Ramesh Vasudevan, Sharanya; Coutrim, Erica (EdTech Hub, 2024)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence; coming soon

Covid-19, EdTech, and Survey Alignment in Education - Fitzpatrick, Rachael; McIntyre, Nora; Wilson, Samuel; Rose, Pauline (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH; _zenodoETH:submitted

Learning-adjusted years of schooling (LAYS): Defining a new macro measure of education - Filmer, Deon; Rogers, Halsey; Angrist, Noam; Sabarwal, Shwetlena (Economics of Education Review, 2020)
The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses is a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly different learning outcomes. We therefore propose a new summary measure, the Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS). This measure combines quantity and quality of schooling into a single easy-to-understand metric of progress, revealing considerably larger cross-country education gaps than the standard metric. We show that the comparisons produced by this measure are robust to different ways of adjusting for learning and that LAYS is consistent with other evidence, including other approaches to quality adjustment. Like other learning measures, LAYS reflects learning, and barriers to learning, both inside and outside of school; also, cross-country comparability of LAYS rests on assumptions related to learning trajectories and the validity, reliability, and comparability of test data. Acknowledging these limitations, we argue that LAYS nonetheless improves on the standard metric in key ways.
Keywords: Education; Human capital; Learning; Returns to education; Schooling; Test Scores; ___working_potential_duplicate

Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness - Filmer, Deon; Nahata, Vatsal; Sabarwal, Shwetlena (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2021)
This paper uses machine learning methods to identify key predictors of teacher effectiveness, proxied by student learning gains linked to a teacher over an academic year. Conditional inference forests and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator are applied to matched student-teacher data for Math and Kiswahili from Grades 2 and 3 in 392 schools across Tanzania. These two machine learning methods produce consistent results and outperform standard ordinary least squares in out-of-sample prediction by 14-24 percent. As in previous research, commonly used teacher covariates like teacher gender, education, experience, and so forth are not good predictors of teacher effectiveness. Instead, teacher practice (what teachers do, measured through classroom observations and student surveys) and teacher beliefs (measured through teacher surveys) emerge as much more important. Overall, teacher covariates are stronger predictors of teacher effectiveness in Math than in Kiswahili. Teacher beliefs that they can help disadvantaged and struggling students learn (for Math) and they have good relationships within schools (for Kiswahili), teacher practice of providing written feedback and reviewing key concepts at the end of class (for Math), and spending extra time with struggling students (for Kiswahili) are highly predictive of teacher effectiveness, as is teacher preparation on how to teach foundational topics (for both Math and Kiswahili). These results demonstrate the need to pay more systematic attention to teacher preparation, practice, and beliefs in teacher research and policy.

Identifying Effective Teachers: Lessons from Four Classroom Observation Tools - Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Wane, Waly (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2020)
Four different classroom observation instruments—from the Service Delivery Indicators, the Stallings Observation System, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, and the Teach classroom observation instrument—were implemented in about 100 schools across four regions of Tanzania. The research design is such that various combinations of tools were administered to various combinations of teachers, so these data can be used to explore the commonalities and differences in the behaviors and practices captured by each tool, the internal properties of the tools (for example, how stable they are across enumerators, or how various indicators relate to one another), and how variables collected by the various tools compare to each other. Analysis shows that inter-rater reliability can be low, especially for some of the subjective ratings; principal components analysis suggests that lower-level constructs do not map neatly to predetermined higher-level ones and suggest that the data have only a few dimensions. Measures collected during teacher observations are associated with student test scores, but patterns differ for teachers with lower versus higher subject content knowledge.
Keywords: _B:important; _G:important; _G:reviewed; _Tanzania; _final_bib; _important

Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality - Filmer, Deon; Habyarimana, James; Sabarwal, Shwetlena (Rise Programme, 2020)
This study evaluates the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results from a two-phase randomized trial show that incentives for teachers led to modest average improvements in student achievement across different subjects. Further, withdrawing incentives did not lead to a “discouragement effect” (once incentives were withdrawn, student performance did not fall below prebaseline levels). Rather, impacts on learning were sustained beyond the intervention period. However, these incentives may have exacerbated learning inequality within and across schools. Increases in learning were concentrated among initially better-performing schools and students. At the same time, learning outcomes may have decreased for schools and students that were lower performing at baseline. Finally, the study finds that incentivizing students without simultaneously incentivizing teachers did not produce observable learning gains.
Keywords: _B:important; _G:important; _G:reviewed; _Tanzania; _final_bib; _important

Centroamérica: Tendencias de las ecnologías de la Información y Comunicación 2010-2019 - Figueroa, Héctor (2021)

Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM): Sierra Leone Design Report 2019–2021 - Field, Tracey-Lynn (Open Government Partnership, 2020)

Technologies for Data Collection, Processing and Communication in Education in Emergencies: Mapping Practices and Opportunities in the MENA region and Globally - FHI360; USAID (2021)

Innovation for Education, the Mentoring Community of Practice (MCOP) - FHI360 (2020)
The rapid expansion of basic education in Rwanda has strained the delivery of quality education while increasing the demand for effective teachers. The shift to instruction in English has also resulted in an urgent need to improve the English-language proficiency of teachers. The Government of Rwanda is addressing these needs by providing English and pedagogical support to basic education teachers through a school-based mentoring initiative, called the Innovation for Education, the Mentoring Community of Practice (MCOP) project.

Mentorship Community of Practice - FHI360 (2020)
The Rwanda Mentorship Community of Practice (MCOP) initiative, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, aims to strengthen the quality of basic education and to support teacher professional development across Rwanda. The overall objective of MCOP is to improve pedagogical and subject knowledge, particularly for early-grade reading, through the effective use of technologies in in-service professional development.

Rwanda Education Commons (REC) - FHI360 (2020)
The Rwanda Education Commons (REC) is expanding access to quality education by using information and communication technology (ICT) to supplement teaching and learning. By improving collaborative use of these tools among education stakeholders, the REC is building a professional learning community.

Exploring Teachers’ Retention and Attrition in Middle and Secondary Schools in Eritrea: Perspectives of Currently Serving Teachers. - Fessehatsion, Petros Woldu; Peng, Pai (International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020)

Application of EdTech in Tanzania: Effectiveness of radio and television in teaching and learning amid COVID-19 pandemic - Feruzi, Sadiki M.; Li, Yang (International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science, 2020)
On March 2020 school and university going students experienced termination of classes. The statement declared by the Tanzania prime minister honourable Kassim Majaliwa required all primary and secondary schools to postpone learning for a month and one day later universities were also asked to suspend studies and other activities. It was necessary to do so because of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 named by World Health Organisation as COVID-19 a pandemic that had spread and hit more than 150 countries. This paper intended to attain two major objectives, one was to explore the effectiveness of radio and television in handling teaching and learning process as an alternative adopted to ensure that students continue to be engaged in learning. Second, to examine the capabilities of the country through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to continue teaching and learning during the time of classroom disruption. The authors made a case study where radio and television platforms were adopted for teaching and learning. The results show that the transition from classroom teaching and learning to teaching and learning through radio and television stations platform was not effective. Similarly, the study shows that the government has demonstrated incompetence in running and monitoring the programme mostly in terms of programme preparation and implementation. However, this experience has built a solid foundation for the future cases, when the country, facilitators, students and parents will be more arranged than now.

Online learning and emergency remote teaching: opportunities and challenges in emergency situations - Ferri, Fernando; Grifoni, Patrizia; Guzzo, Tiziana (Societies, 2020)

Giga Initiative Aims to Connect the World's Schools to the Internet - Ferguson, Sarah (UNICEF USA, 2020)
As COVID-19 deepens the digital divide, it's time to ensure that every student has access to information, opportunity & choice.

Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives from Africa and Asia - Fennell, Shailaja (Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020)

Online Teaching of Rural Multi-Grade Classes in the Context of COVID-19: Proposing a Holistic Approach - Feizi, Farokh; Bakhtiarvand, Morteza (Randwick International of Education and Linguistics Science Journal, 2020)

Education Coordinated COVID-19 Response Strategy - Federal Ministry of Education (Nigeria) (2020)

Digitalisation Report - Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (Austrian Federal Government, 2021)

Every girl goes to school, stays safe, and learns: Five years of global action - FCDO (2020)

Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau - Fazzio, Ila; Eble, Alex; Lumsdaine, Robin L; Boone, Peter; Bouy, Baboucarr; Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny; Jayanty, Chitra; Johnson, Simon; Silva, Ana Filipa (2021)
Children in many extremely poor, remote regions are growing up illiterate and innumerate despite high reported school enrollment ratios. Possible explanations for such poor outcomes include demand – for example, low perceived returns to education compared to opportunity cost; and supply – poor state provision and inability of parents to coordinate and finance better schooling. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial in rural Guinea Bissau to understand the effectiveness and cost of concerted supply-based interventions in such contexts. Our intervention created simple schools offering four years of education to primary-school aged children in lieu of the government. At endline, children receiving the intervention scored 58.1 percentage points better than controls on early grade reading and math tests, demonstrating that the intervention taught children to read and perform basic arithmetic, from a counterfactual condition of very high illiteracy. Our results provide evidence that particularly needy areas may require more concerted, dramatic interventions in education than those usually considered, but that such interventions hold great potential for increasing education levels among the world’s poorest people.

Secondary Education During Lockdown Situation Due to Covid-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Teachers’ Response on Online Classes - Farhana, Z; Tanni, S; Shabnam, S; Chowdhury, S (Journal of Education and Practice, 2020)
Online classes started in many secondary schools one month after the compulsory closure of all education institutions in Bangladesh. This study explores the current scenario as well as challenges of adaptation of online classes in secondary education in terms of teachers’ experience. The study followed sequential exploratory mixed-method approach. Five secondary teachers were interviewed and 54 secondary teachers from 17 districts in Bangladesh were surveyed over telephone, Google forms and by email. The quantitative data was analyzed with Microsoft Excel and the thematic analysis approach had been followed for the qualitative one. The findings revealed that a good number of teachers have started teaching online by using social media platforms despite of not having any training or experience. Very few respondent teachers were found to take online examination; instead they are trying to assess the students from the feedback of given home works and home assignments. Teachers are facing numerous challenges like deficit of digital equipment, lack of expertise, unfamiliarity with the LMS, proficiency in assessment technique etc. The paper concludes with few recommendations such as providing proper devices to the teachers and students to participate in online class; facilitate rigorous training to enhance technology-based skills and capacities of the teachers so as to get the expected outcome.

COVID Response Report - Family Educational Services Foundation (FESF, 2020)

Remote Learning During COVID School Closures in West Africa: Evidence Across Caregiver Surveys at Rising Academy Network Schools - Fall, S. M.; Jiminez Gallardo, M. A.; McManus, J; Njogu-Ndongwe, F (IDinsight, 2021)
Evidence across caregiver surveys at Rising Academy Network schools
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Schooling and Covid-19: lessons from recent research on EdTech - Fairlie, Robert; Loyalka, Prashant (npj Science of Learning, 2020)

Science Teacher Education in the Time of COVID-19 : A Document Analysis - Fackler, Ayca K; Sexton, Chelsea M (2020)

Digital Technology and the Futures of Education: Towards ‘Non-Stupid’ Optimism - Facer, Keri; Selwyn, Neil (2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Relative Wealth Index - Facebook (Facebook Data for Good, 2021)

Learning from Experience: A post-Covid-19 data architecture for a resilient education data ecosystem in Sierra Leone - Fab Inc. (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodo:submitted

Digital Skills Ecosystem and Gap Assessment in Malawi: Final Report - EY (2021)

How big are effect sizes in international education studies? - Evans, David; Yuan, Fei (Center for Global Development, 2020)
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.

It’s been a year since schools started to close due to COVID-19 - Evans, David; Hares, Susannah; Mendez Acosta, A.; Saintis, C. (Center For Global Development, 2021)
Twelve months ago, the world was watching as schools closed across China and millions of students began learning online from their homes. Most of us didn’t think for a moment that just a few weeks later, almost every country in the world would close their schools and the education of more than a billion children would be disrupted. Since then, millions of students have not had any school-based, face-to-face education.

Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Skills Are Important, Obviously. But Are They More Important than All Other Education Investments? - Evans, David; Hares, Susannah (Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action, 2021)
It’s rare to read an education report these days that doesn’t mention the learning crisis. That’s not surprising. Literacy and numeracy skills among children are dismally low: less than half of all children in low- and middle-income countries can read by the time they are 10 years old. As these data have emerged in recent years, the global education community has swung its focus sharply toward learning.

Gender gaps in education: The long view - Evans, David; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela (Centre for Global Development, 2020)
Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries between 1960 and 2010, we document four facts. First, women are more educated today than fifty years ago in every country in the world. Second, they remain less educated than men in the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys are attaining high levels of education. Most countries with large, current gender gaps have low levels of male educational attainment. Many also perform poorly on other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Improving girls’ education is an important goal in its own right, but closing gender gaps in education will not be sufficient to close critical gaps in adult life outcomes.

Education in Africa: What Are We Learning? - Evans, David; Acosta, Amina Mendez (2020)
Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and improve the quality of education across the continent, specifically examining how these studies update previous research findings. We find that 64 percent of the studies evaluate government implemented programs, 36 percent include detailed cost analysis, and 35 percent evaluate multiple treatment arms. We identify several areas where new studies provide rigorous evidence on topics that do not figure prominently in earlier evidence syntheses. New evidence shows promising impacts of structured pedagogy interventions (which typically provide a variety of inputs, such as lesson plans and training for teachers together with new materials for students) and of mother tongue instruction interventions, as well as from a range of teacher programs, including both remunerative (pay-for-performance of various designs) and non-remunerative (coaching and certain types of training) programs. School feeding delivers gains in both access and learning. New studies also show long-term positive impacts of eliminating school fees for primary school and positive impacts of eliminating fees in secondary school. Education technology interventions have decidedly mixed impacts, as do school grant programs and programs providing individual learning inputs (e.g., uniforms or textbooks).
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What Have We Learned from Recent Years of Education Research in Africa? - Evans, David; Acosta, Amina Mendez (Center For Global Development, 2020)
With a constant stream of new studies emerging on how to expand access or improve learning in education, it can be hard to keep track and make sense of it all. In our new paper we curate more than 140 evaluations of education interventions, from national policies to small pilots, in African countries that came out since 2014.

What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls | The World Bank Economic Review | Oxford Academic - Evans, David K; Yuan, Fei (2022)

Education in Africa: What are we learning? - Evans, David K; Mendez Acosta, Amina (Journal of African Economies, 2021)
Abstract Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and improve the quality of education across the continent, specifically examining how these studies update previous research findings. We find that 64% of the studies evaluate government-implemented programs, 36% include detailed cost analysis and 35% evaluate multiple treatment arms. We identify several areas where new studies provide rigorous evidence on topics that do not figure prominently in earlier evidence syntheses. New evidence shows promising impacts of structured pedagogy interventions (which typically provide a variety of inputs, such as lesson plans and training for teachers together with new materials for students) and of mother tongue instruction interventions, as well as from a range of teacher programs, including both remunerative (pay-for-performance of various designs) and non-remunerative (coaching and certain types of training) programs. School feeding delivers gains in both access and learning. New studies also show long-term positive impacts of eliminating school fees for primary school and positive impacts of eliminating fees in secondary school. Education technology interventions have decidedly mixed impacts, as do school grant programs and programs providing individual learning inputs (e.g., uniforms or textbooks).

Getting Education Right : State and Municipal Success in Reform for Universal Literacy in Brazil - Evans, David K.; Loureiro, Andre (2020)
Getting Education Right : State and Municipal Success in Reform for Universal Literacy in Brazil (English)

Virtual teacher coaching may not be the solution we hoped for - Evans, David (Center For Global Development, 2020)
How can we help teachers to upgrade their pedagogical skills? Teacher coaching is a promising and increasingly popular candidate. Teacher coaching means teachers receive feedback in their place of work on specific things they can do better, not some general theory of pedagogy that’s completely disconnected from their day-to-day practice.
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Virtual Teacher Coaching May Not Be the Solution We Hoped For - Evans, David (Center For Global Development, 2020)
How can we help teachers to upgrade their pedagogical skills? Teacher coaching is a promising and increasingly popular candidate. Teacher coaching means teachers receive feedback in their place of work on specific things they can do better, not some general theory of pedagogy that’s completely disconnected from their day-to-day practice.
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Practical guidance note 9: stopping school related gender based violence - European Commission (Publications Office of the European Union, 2020)
This guidance note provides information and programming advice about how to stop school-related, gender-based violence (SRGBV).

Nigeria Government Calls for Reopening of Schools After 6-month COVID Lockdown | Voice of America - English - Ettang, Ifiok (Voice of America, 2020)
Nigeria reopened schools Oct. 12, six months after they were closed to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. However, not all parents believe students should be returning to the classroom. Gloria Kwashi runs the Zambiri Outreach and Childcare Center in Jos, a school that provides free education and food for more than 400 children, including orphans and victims of insurgent violence. She says the pandemic brought her students' learning to a complete halt. "All the months that we left, nobody came to school and nobody learned anything, so it was already that bad," she said.

The Praxis Study Companion, Teaching Reading: Elementary - ETS Praxis (2021)

Pakistan Floods: Education Snapshot - 30 September 2022 - Pakistan | ReliefWeb - ESWG (2022)
Infographic in English on Pakistan about Education, Flash Flood and Flood; published on 30 Sep 2022 by Education Cluster, Save the Children and 2count other organizations

Digital Skills in Latin American Teachers - Estrada, Ricardo (Development Bank of Latin America, 2020)
We are a development bank with 20 shareholder countries - in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal- as well as 13 private banks

School Leaders’ Preferences on School Location in Sierra Leone: An individual and school-level study - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia; Ramirez, Ana; Atherton, Paul; Mackintosh, Alasdair (EdTech Hub, 2022)
Attracting qualified teachers to remote areas is a challenge in Sierra Leone. The pupil-to-qualified-teacher ratio in rural areas is 76:1, rising to 83:1 for schools located more than 15 km away from urban centres — well above the national target of 40:1. As equitable teacher deployment is crucial to ensure high-quality education, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) aims to increase the deployment of qualified teachers to the most remote areas of the country. This paper describes a quantitative survey of school leaders’ perceptions of what shapes school location preferences and what factors need to be in place (i.e., incentives) to address the imbalanced distribution of qualified teachers in the country. We used data from a text message survey sent to school leaders around the country. This paper accompanies a qualitative inquiry on the same topic: What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment? A case study on teacher school choice preferences in Sierra Leone. Together with the qualitative study, our findings aim to address a gap in empirical evidence on teacher school preferences in Sierra Leone and contribute to a growing literature on teachers’ preferences in low- and middle-income countries. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

School-to-School Mobility Patterns and Retention Rates of Payroll Teachers in Sierra Leone - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia; Ali, Yusuf; Garrod, Oliver; Atherton, Paul; Mackintosh, Alisdair; Ramirez, Ana; Beoku-Betts, Iman; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2023)
This report is one of several on the research project on the Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone. Recent studies from this series have shown that being put on the government payroll can incentivise teachers to relocate to remote areas of the country. There is a concern, however, that being put on the payroll does not necessarily ensure the retention of teachers in these areas and that teachers will soon move to locations they consider more favourable. As there is no data on teacher mobility patterns and schools’ teacher retention rates, policies tend to be based on anecdotal evidence. This paper aims to fill this evidence gap by exploring teachers’ school-to-school mobility trends and retention rates using the Annual School Census (ASC) data from 2015 to 2021. Using data on teachers’ individual characteristics, as well as geospatial location data of each school, the paper explores whether mobility patterns vary by teachers’ gender or qualifications and whether the teaching workforce is urbanising. While studies have looked at teacher retention, this study is the first in a low-income country to use school census data to create a panel dataset to study teachers’ movements and school retention rates over time. Keywords: teacher mobility; teacher retention rates; mobility patterns; teacher deployment; Sierra Leone; education An output of the EdTech Hub https://edtechhub.org
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Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Education Professionals. Toward a Paradigm Shift: ICT and Neuroeducation as a Binomial of Action - Espino-Díaz, Luis; Fernandez-Caminero, Gemma; Hernandez-Lloret, Carmen-Maria; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Hugo; Alvarez-Castillo, Jose-Luis (Sustainability, 2020)
This study analyzed the current situation of education in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The worldwide health emergency situation has caused the confinement of people and with it, the closure of centers and the transfer of face-to-face education to online education. Faced with these facts, teachers have had to adapt at a dizzying pace not only to new methodological approaches, but also to their own confinement, presenting high levels of stress. The purpose of this study is to offer a proposal that optimizes the work of education professionals in the current context of a pandemic through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under the novel approach of the contributions of neuroeducation in the field of managing emotions and motivational processes, contributing to meaningful learning in students. The symbiosis of ICT and neuroeducation can make a great contribution to the paradigm shift that is taking place today.
Keywords: covid-19; ict; neuroeducation; stress; teachers

Pesquisa revela sistemas de ensino melhor avaliados no país - Blog do EX - Escolas Exponenciais, (Escolas Exponenciais, 2021)
Diagnóstico Nacional da Educação aponta qual é o sistema de ensino mais bem avaliado por pais e responsáveis por alunos em todo Brasil.

Mango Tree Literacy Labs’ Radio Programme Sandbox - Esbeck, Craig; Oloa, Charles; Brown, Victoria; Plaut, Daniel; Salami, Taiye (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:analysis:nopdf; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodo:submitted

Boosting preservice teachers’ competence and online teaching readiness through e-practicum during the COVID-19 outbreak - Ersin, Pinar; Atay, Derin; Mede, Enisa (International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2020)
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has caused disruptions in education in Turkey, as it has in many parts of the world. Faculties of Education that require practice teaching (practicum) are affected as well; due to the shutdown, pre-service English language teachers (PTs) are deprived of the field experience and actual classroom teaching practices in authentic school settings. Practicum constitutes an important part of teacher education and during practicum, “cooperating” teachers (i.e. teachers at practicum schools) and university instructors as teaching practice supervisors play crucial roles in equipping PTs with necessary theoretical and practical skills. The present study took place in the English Language Education program of a competitive state university in Turkey. At the university, all theory-oriented courses moved to synchronous platforms without much difficulty with almost full attendance of the students. As for the practicum, Turkish Higher Education Council let the universities decide for themselves. As researchers working at two different universities, Bahçeşehir University and Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, we designed an alternative practice to meet the needs of PTs and maintain the quality of the practicum: “e-practicum” under the supervision of the university supervisor who acted as the “e-mentor”. The aim was to increase PTs’ teaching competence and prepare them for online teaching. A virtual classroom consisting of twenty-five PTs was formed and six PTs performed microteaching to their peers who acted as students by using Zoom. After the e-practicum sessions, peers gave detailed feedback to the teacher PTs. The university supervisor provided e-mentoring right after each session. Then, each teacher PT reflected on e-practicum experience and e-mentoring. The findings revealed that PTs found the e-practicum useful because it helped them overcome online teaching fears.
Keywords: address; atatürk eğitim fakültesi ek; bina; corresponding author; d blok; e-mentoring; e-practicum; english language teacher education; göztepe kampüsü; marmara ünivesitesi; ofis; pre-service teachers

Emergency remote education experiences of teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological research - Eroglu, Mehmet; Senol, Cem (Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021)
The purpose of the study is to examine teachers' experiences of Emergency Remote Education (ERE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was designed in the qualitative approach and as the research method, "phenomenology" was used. The sample of the study consists of 12 teachers selected by the criterion sampling method. The interview technique was used to collect data. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. The study results showed that the ERE activity that teachers experienced the most was the online lessons. Teachers have done the ERE activities through various applications such as EIN (Education Information Network), Zoom, WhatsApp, YouTube. Teachers emphasized that ERE was ineffective due to low student participation, insufficient infrastructure, lack of responsibility and motivation for learning, low ICT competency of students and teachers, low socioeconomic status, and inappropriateness of planning and curriculums. In addition, teachers stated that education in the COVID-19 pandemic process should be done in diluted classrooms, hybrid or face to face. It is concluded that the lack of infrastructure, lack of responsibility and motivation for learning created inequality of opportunity for participation in ERE. The lack of infrastructure was mostly due to students being in the low socioeconomic group. In addition, students' learning responsibility and motivation are very important in the effectiveness of ERE.
Keywords: Barriers; COVID-19; Distance Education; Electronic Learning; Elementary Secondary Education; Emergency Programs; Foreign Countries; Instructional Effectiveness; Integrated Learning Systems; Internet; Learning Motivation; Pandemics; Phenomenology; Socioeconomic Status; Student Participation; Student Responsibility; Teacher Attitudes; Turkey

Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Report - Ericsson (Ericsson.com, 2020)
Our Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Report includes all the highlights of our sustainability performance.

Staying Tuned Radio Programming for Sustained Behaviour Change and Accountability in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - Ergül, H (UNICEF, 2020)

ePathshala | Learning On The Go - ePathshala (2020)

Learning Inequality During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Engzell, Per; Frey, Arun; Verhagen, Mark D. (SocArXiv, 2020)
Suspension of face-to-face instruction in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to concerns about consequences for student learning. So far, data to study this question have been limited. Here we evaluate the effect of school closures on primary school performance using exceptionally rich data from the Netherlands (n≈350,000). The Netherlands represents a best-case scenario with a relatively short lockdown (8 weeks) and a high degree of technological preparedness. We use the fact that national exams took place before and after lockdown, and compare progress during this period to the same period in the three previous years using a difference-in-differences design. Our results reveal a learning loss of about 3 percentile points or 0.08 standard deviations. These results remain robust when balancing on the estimated propensity of treatment and using maximum entropy weights, or with fixed-effects specifications that compare students within the same school and family. Losses are up to 55% larger among students from less-educated homes. Investigating mechanisms, we find that most of the effect reflects the cumulative impact of knowledge learned rather than transitory influences on the day of testing. The average learning loss is equivalent to a fifth of a school year, nearly exactly the same period that schools remained closed. These results imply that students made little or no progress whilst learning from home, and suggest much larger losses in countries less prepared for remote learning.
Keywords: Economics; Education; Educational Assessment; Evaluation; Public Affairs; Public Policy and Public Administration; Social Statistics; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology; and Research

Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic - Engzell, Per; Frey, Arun; Verhagen, Mark D. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021)

Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic - Engzell, Per; Frey, Arun; Verhagen, Mark D. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021)

Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic - Engzell, Per; Frey, Arun; Verhagen, Mark D. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021)
Suspension of face-to-face instruction in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to concerns about consequences for students' learning. So far, data to study this question have been limited. Here we evaluate the effect of school closures on primary school performance using exceptionally rich data from The Netherlands (n ≈ 350,000). We use the fact that national examinations took place before and after lockdown and compare progress during this period to the same period in the 3 previous years. The Netherlands underwent only a relatively short lockdown (8 wk) and features an equitable system of school funding and the world's highest rate of broadband access. Still, our results reveal a learning loss of about 3 percentile points or 0.08 standard deviations. The effect is equivalent to one-fifth of a school year, the same period that schools remained closed. Losses are up to 60% larger among students from less-educated homes, confirming worries about the uneven toll of the pandemic on children and families. Investigating mechanisms, we find that most of the effect reflects the cumulative impact of knowledge learned rather than transitory influences on the day of testing. Results remain robust when balancing on the estimated propensity of treatment and using maximum-entropy weights or with fixed-effects specifications that compare students within the same school and family. The findings imply that students made little or no progress while learning from home and suggest losses even larger in countries with weaker infrastructure or longer school closures.
Keywords: COVID-19; Child; Female; Humans; Learning; Male; Netherlands; Pandemics; Quarantine; SARS-CoV-2; Schools; digital divide; learning loss; school closures; social inequality

Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic - Engzell, Per; Frey, Arun; Verhagen, Mark D. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021)
Suspension of face-to-face instruction in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to concerns about consequences for students' learning. So far, data to study this question have been limited. Here we evaluate the effect of school closures on primary school performance using exceptionally rich data from The Netherlands (n ≈ 350,000). We use the fact that national examinations took place before and after lockdown and compare progress during this period to the same period in the 3 previous years. The Netherlands underwent only a relatively short lockdown (8 wk) and features an equitable system of school funding and the world's highest rate of broadband access. Still, our results reveal a learning loss of about 3 percentile points or 0.08 standard deviations. The effect is equivalent to one-fifth of a school year, the same period that schools remained closed. Losses are up to 60% larger among students from less-educated homes, confirming worries about the uneven toll of the pandemic on children and families. Investigating mechanisms, we find that most of the effect reflects the cumulative impact of knowledge learned rather than transitory influences on the day of testing. Results remain robust when balancing on the estimated propensity of treatment and using maximum-entropy weights or with fixed-effects specifications that compare students within the same school and family. The findings imply that students made little or no progress while learning from home and suggest losses even larger in countries with weaker infrastructure or longer school closures.
Keywords: COVID-19; Child; Female; Humans; Learning; Male; Netherlands; Pandemics; Quarantine; SARS-CoV-2; Schools; digital divide; learning loss; school closures; social inequality

Eneza Education website - Eneza Education (Eneza Education, 2020)
Eneza Education is an ed-tech company that provides curriculum aligned revision material in all subjects for primary and secondary learners on any device. Our virtual tutor provides access to curriculum-aligned ... Read More

Impact of COVID-19 on the institutional education system and its associated students in Bangladesh - Emon, Efta Khairul Haque; Alif, Ashrafur Rahman; Islam, M. Shahanul (Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies, 2020)
Keywords: Bangladesh; COVID-19; Coronavirus; education; impact; poverty.

Challenging taken-for-granted ideas in early childhood education: A critique of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory in the age of post-humanism - Elliott, Sue; Davis, Julie M. (Research handbook on childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature research, 2020)

Report: The Impact of COVID-19 Across Africa - Elliott, Roxana (GeoPoll, 2020)
New report on coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa including data from Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria. COVID-19 and food security, economic impact.

The lesson study approach to professional development: Promoting teachers' peer mentoring and communities of practice and students' learning in Egypt - Elkomy, Maha M.; Elkhaial, Nevien H. (Teaching and teacher education, 2022)
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the lesson study (LS) approach on developing knowledge and perception of peer mentoring (PM) and communities of practice (CoPs) among kindergarten (K.G.) teachers in Egypt. It also aimed to improve students' learning in science concepts and English vocabulary due to teachers' participation in LS. A mixed methods design was employed. Results show that the LS approach provided a rich context for practicing PM experiences and helped teachers to collaborate in a CoP. Further gains were also achieved regarding students’ learning. •Effects of LS on PM and CoP among teachers were investigated.•The impact of the activities developed during LS on students' learning was assessed.•The study was composed of two samples: 21 teachers and 246 learners.•Significant results were obtained concerning teachers' knowledge and perceptions of PM and CoP.•Positive effects on students' learning of science and English were also found.
Keywords: Community of practice; Education & Educational Research; English learning; Lesson study; Mentors; Peer-mentoring; Professional development; Professional learning; Science learning; Sciences education; Social Sciences; Teachers

Elimu | Offline Intranet Resource Centre In Garissa - Elimu Resource Centre (2022)

Impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur l’éducation en Afrique et incidence sur le recours aux technologies: Sondage sur l’expérience et les opinions des éducateurs et spécialistes de technologies - eLearning Africa; EdTech Hub (2020)
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:other:ok; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

O Efeito da COVID-19 na Educação em África e Suas Implicações para a Utilização da Tecnologia Um Inquérito sobre a Experiência e as Opiniões de Educadores e Especialistas em Tecnologia - eLearning Africa; EdTech Hub (2020)
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:other:ok; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

The effect of Covid-19 on education in Africa and its implications for the use of technology - eLearning Africa; EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:other:ok; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH

K-12 Egyptian Knowledge Bank Study Portal and New Form of Assessment - El Zayat, Nelly (Education Continuity Stories, 2020)

Strategy for Tanzania — Focus Area: TCPD in primary schools - El-Serafy, Yomna; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Carter, Alice; Haßler, Björn; Proctor, Jamie; Adam, Taskeen (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: _EdTechHub_Output

The effectiveness of technology-supported teacher professional learning communities in emergency settings - El-Serafy, Yomna; Adam, Taskeen; Hassler, Björn (Future-Proofing Teacher Education, 2022)
Professional learning communities are becoming increasingly popular in emergency settings due to their potential to be a sustainable, scalable, and grounded modality for teacher professional development. In settings where formal structures of professional development are absent or disjointed, professional learning communities respond to the urgent need to develop quality teachers. Moreover, where teachers have experienced significant trauma, such communities offer highly valued spaces for socioemotional support. Increasingly, practitioners in emergency settings are moving towards using technology to support professional learning communities, either by facilitating them entirely online or by using technology for specific components. This chapter builds upon existing literature on the use of technology in professional learning communities, both globally and in emergency settings in particular. The chapter correlates such literature to findings from primary research that involved 280 practitioners of professional learning communities in emergency settings. We demonstrate the potential for technology to significantly increase access to and effectiveness of professional learning communities in emergency settings, while laying out significant barriers to implementation.

High, Low, or No Tech? A Roundtable Discussion on the Role of Technology in Refugee Education - El-Sefary, Yomna; Ozegovic, Mia; Wagner, Emma; Benchiba, Soraya (2021)

COVID-19, middle level teacher candidates, and colloquialisms: Navigating emergency remote field experiences - Eisenbach, Brooke; Greathouse, Paula; Acquaviva, Caroline (Middle Grades Review, 2020)
COVID-19 challenged teacher educators and teacher candidates in ways we could have never imagined. Colloquialisms regarding the move from educator preparation to practice shifted from common truths to dynamic considerations in light of the pandemic and transition to emergency remote teaching and learning. In this essay, we share our experiences working with middle level teacher candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic. We identify the ways in which our teacher candidates rose to the challenge and demonstrated critical thinking, creativity and compassion beyond our prior expectations of rising middle level educators amidst a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty.
Keywords: Altruism; Communicable Diseases; Computer Mediated Communication; Cooperation; Creativity; Critical Thinking; Disease Control; Educational Technology; Interpersonal Relationship; Middle School Teachers; Preservice Teacher Education; Preservice Teachers; Seminars; Teacher Educators; Technology Uses in Education; ⛔ No DOI found

How gender equality in STEM education leads to economic growth - Eige (European Institute for Gender Equality, 2021)
Reducing the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education areas could help reduce skills gap, increase employment and productivity of women and reduce occupational segregation. Ultimately this would foster economic growth via both higher productivity and increased labour market activity. However, despite good employment opportunities and highly productive jobs in this area, there is currently a low proportion of women studying and graduating in STEM subjects.

Trust, Accountability and Capacity in Education System Reform | Taylor & Francis Group - Ehren, Melanie; Baxter, Jacqueline (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This global collection brings a new perspective to the field of comparative education by presenting trust, capacity and accountability as the three building

The Egyptian Ministry of Education’s E-Learning Portal - Egyptian Ministry of Education (2021)

ঘরে বসেই শিক্ষা - EduHub Bangladesh (LearnFromHome, 2020)
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Distance Learning as a Tool for System Resilience - EducationLinks (2020)
Find related information on EducationLinks at https://www.edu-links.org/events/dist.... COVD19 has had an unprecedented impact on educational systems across the world and required school systems to pivot to remote learning in mass. This panel discussion webinar explored the lessons learned, opportunities and challenges presented by this shift, and identified ways that distance learning modalities can continue to contribute to making educational systems more flexible, adaptable and inclusive of students who may be poorly served by traditional models. Experts from EDC, EdTech Hub, WorldReader and USAID/Egypt shared their insights on how distance learning can strengthen educational outcomes for students across the sector. This event was part of the Global Education Learning Series, learn more about the series at https://www.edu-links.org/LearningSeries
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:analysis:nopdf; _zenodoETH

Innovative Education Workforce Analysis for More Equitable Education: Sierra Leone - Education Workforce Initiative (Education Commission, 2020)

COVID-19 education equity guide: Digital access - Education Trust (2020)

Pakistan Education Sector Working Group flood response performance monitoring dashboard (as of 28 February 2023) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb - Education Sector Working Group (2023)
Infographic in English on Pakistan about Contributions, Coordination, Flash Flood, Flood and more; published on 9 Mar 2023 by Education Cluster, Save the Children and 2count other organizations

EEF Evidence Database Coding Guide – Main Data Extraction - Education Endowment Foundation; Durham University (2022)
Keywords: _yt:a

Best evidence on impact of Covid-19 on pupil attainment - Education Endowment Foundation (EEF, 2022)
The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.