Anne Fitzpatrick

Anne Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University's Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics. Previously she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her dual PhD in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 2015. Her research interests focus on health care markets of developing countries and the effects of health insurance. She specialises in conducting randomised evaluations aimed at testing proposals to improve health care quality, with the ultimate goal of improving the well-being of individuals worldwide. More recent work uses rigorous econometric techniques to determine how healthcare policies affect individual financial well-being, health, and mortality.

माध्यमिक स्तर के अधिगम में सुधार : रेमिडियल शिविरों और कक्षा में शिक्षकों के लचीलेपन की भूमिका
भारतीय शिक्षा प्रणाली की एक प्रमुख दुविधा यह है कि बच्चे स्कूल तो जा रहे हैं, लेकिन वास्तव में ढ़ंग से सीख नहीं रहे हैं। यह लेख ओडिशा में हुए एक प्रयोग के आधार पर, माध्यमिक विद्यालय में अधिगम की कमी के सम्भावित समाधानों की खोज करता है। इसमें पाया गया है कि अनुकूलित सुधारात्मक या रेमिडियल कार्यक्रम सीखने की प्रक्रिया में सुधार और सीखने के स्तर के बारे में शिक्षकों की धारणाओं में सुधार लाते हैं। लेकिन पाठ योजनाओं में शिक्षक स्वायत्तता को बढ़ाने से होने वाले लाभ इतने स्पष्ट रूप से नहीं दिखते।

Enhancing secondary school learning: Role of remedial camps and teacher flexibility
A key dilemma in Indian education is that while children are enrolled in school, they are not actually learning. Based on an experiment in Odisha, this article explores possible solutions to the learning deficit in secondary schooling. It finds that tailored remedial programmes improve learning and correct teachers’ beliefs regarding learning levels. However, gains from increasing teacher autonomy in lesson plans are not significant.
