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Saloni Gupta
Saloni Gupta is a PhD candidate in Economics and Education at Columbia University. She is a field experimentalist focusing on the development of higher-order skills in adolescents and technology reforms in school education.
Saloni earned her master's in international education policy analysis at Stanford University, and a bachelor's in electrical engineering at Thapar University, India. She has been a programme leader for a nationwide teachers' education program, a teacher of at-risk youth during her fellowship at Teach For India, and a software engineer at Fidelity Investments.
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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.
