Challenges in educational reform: An experiment on active learning in mathematics

Samuel Berlinski and Matias Busso

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 156, issue C, 172-175

Abstract: This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to improve secondary school students’ ability to reason and argue using mathematics. A structured pedagogical intervention was created to foster a more active role of students in the classroom. The intervention was implemented with high fidelity and was internally valid. Surprisingly, students in the control group learned significantly more than those who received treatment.

Keywords: Education; Curricular reform; Technology; Field experiments; Costa Rica (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 I28 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.05.007

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