Participatory Teaching Improves Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tanzania
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Keywords
productivity in education; participatory teaching; teacher content knowledge; computerassisted learning; development economics.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-10-09 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-URE-2023-10-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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