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Lotte van der Haar; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Michael Kremer; Joost de Laat – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between different skills within a practice session. On tests…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Retention (Psychology), Outcomes of Education
Angel H. Harris; Darryl V. Hill; Matthew A. Lenard – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Disparities in gifted representation across demographic subgroups represents a large and persistent challenge in U.S. public schools. In this paper, we measure the impacts of a school-wide curricular intervention designed to address such disparities. We implemented Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow (NBT) as a cluster randomized trial across…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Talent Identification, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education
Kraft, Matthew A.; Falken, Grace T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper, we explore how tutoring could become a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system. We outline a blueprint for taking tutoring to scale nationally and estimate its costs, while highlighting a range of design and implementation challenges. Our blueprint is centered on ten core principles and a federal architecture to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tutoring, Costs, Program Design