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Niharika Gupta
Niharika Gupta works with the Governance team at Central Square Foundation. She supports the team’s efforts on designing and testing governance interventions that enable improvement in learning outcomes. Her work in education reform focuses on three main issues areas, namely, increasing data reliability, facilitating behaviour change and building state capacity.
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Phone-based assessment data: Triangulating schools’ learning outcomes
Recent research has shown that schools often report overestimated learning outcomes, as they fear adverse consequences if they report poor performance. In this post, Gupta et al. describe a pilot study to measure reliability and validity of phone-based assessments, in which they tested students in Uttar Pradesh both over the phone and in person. They reveal that students performed similarly in both modes, and put forth some recommendations to state government looking to scale phone assessments and improve data reliability.
