Tag Search: “schooling”
Should the less educated be barred from village council elections?
In December 2014, the state government of Rajasthan issued an executive order barring citizens with less than eight years of formal education from running for village council chief elections in all b...
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Rohini Pande
23 February, 2015
- Perspectives
Assessing teacher quality in India
Research in the US has pointed out that the most important determinant of the quality of education is the quality of teachers but that students’ achievement is not linked to observable teacher charac...
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Mehtabul Azam
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
16 February, 2015
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Taking education beyond educationists
ASER – Annual Status of Education Report – has been tracking learning outcomes of children in rural India for the past 10 years. In this note, Rukmini Banerji, Director of the ASER Centre/Pratham, hi...
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Rukmini Banerji
09 February, 2015
- Notes from the Field
How much does India spend on elementary education?
There has been a significant policy focus on expanding elementary education in India in recent years. Yet, estimates of public and private expenditure on elementary education are not available. This ...
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Ambrish Dongre
Avani Kapur
02 February, 2015
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Teacher accountability and assessment of student learning levels
Research has found that holding teachers accountable to the local community has scant impact on student learning. Based on a survey of government schools in Karnataka, this column suggests that this ...
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Anjini Kochar
15 January, 2015
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Can we select the right peers in Indian education? Evidence from Kolkata
This project studies the effect of random dormitory assignment in a tertiary-level educational institution in India on subsequent academic achievements. The effects of peer-ability are around one-thir...
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Paul Frijters
31 December, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Defining Teacher Quality in India
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject-specific teachers at the senior secondary level, the project estimates t...
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Mehtabul Azam
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
31 December, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Social Justice in Education: Are School Uniform and Scholarship Schemes Marred with Discrimination in Bihar?
This project evaluated on how well the attendance conditionality is being implemented in the schools of Bihar, and whether it’s marred with caste-based discrimination. The study found that the attend...
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Abhimanyu Gahlaut
Chinmaya Kumar
Pankaj Verma
31 December, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Did caste-based reservation increase schooling of beneficiaries?
Reservation for backward classes in schools has been in place in India since independence. This column uses a unique historical event that took place in the 1970s in India to evaluate the effect of a...
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Guilhem Cassan
16 October, 2014
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Where has all the education in India gone?
The average years of education per Indian citizen have significantly increased since independence. This column analyses whether the increase in education has led to higher material wellbeing overall....
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Scott Fulford
18 September, 2014
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Choice and cost: The role of household decision making and spending on secondary education in rural Bihar
This project attempts to understand the educational choices that households make and expenditures they undertake for children going from upper primary school to secondary school in Bihar. It is design...
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Rukmini Banerji
Wilima Wadhwa
15 September, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Do private tuitions improve learning outcomes?
About a fourth of the students enrolled in elementary schools in rural India attend private tuitions. This column analyses the impact of private tuition on learning outcomes, and finds that it has a ...
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Ambrish Dongre
Vibhu Tewary
13 August, 2014
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