Where does low quality

education come from?

Introduction

1. Educational data in India

2. My Question and Hypothesis

3. Balsaki project × Experiment

4. My opinion

・ Enrollment rate at Primary school (2008-2011)

Educational data in India

Male 99％Female 98％

・ grade 3 students:

Educational data in India

About 60% of these children couldn’t read simple words which they learned grade 1.

Question

→To help weaker students effects on improving educational outcomes

・ The low quality of education comes from-The teachers(a pedagogy or motivation?)

-The Students(low motivation?)

Balsakhi program

・ Balsakhi : aged 18 to 20 years old women completed grade 10-12 education

-2weeks educational training - 20hours per week

・ Offered by Pratham Organaization

Experiment by MIT Research group

・ Place :Mumbai・ Sample:77primary schoolsGrade 2 & 3 children

・ Separating groups:-The score of pre-assessment language test- Understandings of language instruction

Experiment design

Group A Group B

Grade 2 Treatment ControlGrade 3 Control Treatment

Group A Group BGrade 3 Control TreatmentGrade 4 Treatment Control

Year 1

Year 2

Assessments

Pre-testPost-test

1Post-test

2

Year1 Year 2

Results and my opinion・ Helping weaker students can improve the literacy outcomes.

・ Students can obtain educational achievements if they understand the lectures..

→The low quality of education comes from teachers?

Reference

Pratham Organisation (2011) Inside primary schools-A study of teaching and learning in rural India-, Pratham Resource Centre; Mumbai

UNICEF(2012) Statistics in Indiahttp://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statistics.html

Banerjee.A.V, Cole.S, Duflo.E,and Linden.L(2006) REMEDYING EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM TWORANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS IN INDIA, Oxford, U.K; Oxford University press, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 22, no. 3 (2007): 1235–64