Remedial Education: Evidence from a Sequence of Experiments in Colombia

Horacio Álvarez Marinelli, Samuel Berlinski and Matias Busso

No 10034, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper assesses the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at improving the reading skills of struggling third-grade students in Colombia. In a series of randomized experiments, students participated in remedial tutorials conducted during school hours in small groups. Trained teachers used structured pedagogical materials that can be easily scaled up. Informed by the outcomes of each cohort, we fine-tuned the intervention tools for each subsequent cohort. We found positive and persistent impacts on literacy scores and positive spillovers on some mathematics scores. The effectiveness of the program grew over time, likely because of higher dosage and the fine-tuning of materials.

Keywords: Remedial education; Literacy; Colombia; Sequential experimentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12
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DOI: 10.18235/0002075

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