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| Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda | UNKNOWN |
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The study uses experimental methods to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in Rwanda. The intervention, designed by Aflatoun and AMIR, involves training teachers on the use of active-learning methods to implement a social and financial education curriculum with students in primary and secondary schools. Teachers then implement the social and financial curriculum with students in order to improve their personal, social, and financial competencies.
Teacher training will take place in November-December 2013 and the curriculum implementation will be evaluated in the 2014 school year.
The study will examine the following hypotheses:
Did teachers use of active learning methods in class increase due to the training received?
Did students' levels of engagement and on-task behaviour increase as a result of the intervention's pedagogy and content?
Did the following competencies of students improve due to the intervention?
Did the intervention change student's pass rates on the primary six (P6) and secondary three (S3) final examinations for the classes in which it was implemented?
Did the intervention change student drop out rates in the classes which it was implemented?
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Treatment as usual | No Intervention | Schools in which regular curriculum is delivered and teachers do not receive any additional training in child centered methodologies. | |
| Child centered teaching of life-skills | Experimental | Training of teachers and weekly implementation of hour long sessions based on child centered teaching of life-skills education over the course of the school year in P6 and S3 classes as designed by Aflatoun Stichting Child Savings International and the Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda (AMIR). The life-skills curriculum is known as Aflatoun's Child Social and Financial Education program. The training of teachers element of the intervention is known as Aflatoun Academy, which trains teachers in active learning, child centered methodologies as well as how to implement the life-skills curriculum of Aflatoun Child Social and Financial Education. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Child centered teaching of life-skills | Behavioral | The intervention includes five core components: (1) personal understanding and exploration, (2) rights and responsibilities, (3) savings and spending, (4) planning and budgeting, and (5) social and financial enterprise. The training and curriculum are both manualized. The curriculum is in English and is regionally specific (for Anglophone Africa) and has been contextualized for Rwanda. The minimum hours required by Aflatoun's fidelity guide is 20 hours which includes 10 hours of curriculum lesson and 10 hours of learning activities (savings groups, social and financial projects, club activities etc). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in Teacher Use of Active Learning Methods (Observed) | A composite, standardized variable combining 5-items from an observational instrument filled out by enumerators observing teachers' classes. | Up to 12 months |
| Change in Teacher Use of Active Learning Methods (Self-reported) | A composite, standardized variable combining 7-items from a self-reported instrument capturing the confidence of teachers using these seven specified active learning methods. | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Teacher Use of Active Learning Methods (Student report) | A composite, standardized variable combining 4-items from students' structured interviews about their teacher's use of active learning methods. | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Classroom Level of Student Engagement (Observed) | A composite, standardized variable combining structured observations of 7 randomly selected students for three different 10-second intervals in each teacher's classroom using an adapted version of the PreQuip tool designed by Educans at the University of Amsterdam. | Up to 12 months |
| Change in Student engagement (Student report) | A composite, standardized variable combining 4-items measured using structured interviews of 7 randomly selected students in each teacher's classroom. | Up to 8 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in Students' Generalized Self-efficacy Scale (GSES-10) | A composite, standardized variable generated based on the average sum scores of students on the GSES-10. The original four answer choice format has been changed to a five option format of (strongly disagree, disagree, neither disagree nor agree, agree and strongly agree). | Up to 8 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Difference in standardized examination pass rates on primary 6 (P6) and secondary 3 (S3) tests in study classes | Comparing the standardized test passing rates of the control and experimental group after the end of the first year of the program. | December 2014 |
| Difference in percentage drop out rates of students in study classes |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda | Kigali | Kigali | Rwanda |
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| Change in Students' Pro-Social (PS) (6-item) and Conduct Disorder (CD) (6-item) subscales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) | A composite, standardized variable generated based on the average sum scores of students on the SDQ-CD and SDQ-PS. The original four answer choice format has been changed to a five option format of (strongly disagree, disagree, neither disagree nor agree, agree and strongly agree). | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Students' Financial Literacy | A composite, standardized variable combining 4-items from student structured interviews about their financial competencies. | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Students' Planning Attitudes | A composite, standardized variable combining 5-items from student structured interviews about their planning attitudes. | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Students' Savings Behavior | A composite, standardized variable combining 5-items from student structured interviews about their savings behavior. | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Students' Savings Attitudes | A composite, standardized variable combining 4-items from student structured interviews about their savings attitudes. | Up to 8 months |
| Change in Students' Entrepreneurship Attitudes & Behavior | A composite, standardized variable combining 4-items from student structured interviews about their entrepreneurship attitudes and behavior. | Up to 8 months |
Comparing the drop out rate of students in classes in the control and experimental group after the end of the first year of the program. |
| December 2014 |
| Change in Teachers use of Active Learning Methods (Observed) mediates Student Engagement (Observed) | A mediation analysis to determine if increases in teachers use of active learning methods mediates an increase in student engagement in class. | Up to 12 months |
| Change in Student Engagement (Observed) mediates Students' change in Savings Behavior | A mediation analysis to determine if increases in students' observed engagement mediates an increase in their savings behavior. | Up to 12 months |
| ID | Term |
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| D004522 | Educational Status |
| ID | Term |
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| D012959 | Socioeconomic Factors |
| D011154 | Population Characteristics |
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