When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country

Pedro Manuel Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce, Norbert Schady and Sarah Schodt

No 9926, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. The authors designed a coaching program that focused on one aspect of teacher quality—teacher-child interactions—that researchers in education and psychology have argued is critical for child development and learning. The coaching program was implemented in Ecuador, with 100 1st grade teachers randomly assigned to treatment and 100 to control. Coaching improved the quality of teacher-child interactions but reduced child achievement. These results underline the importance of evaluating new forms of professional development for teachers, even those that follow best practice, before these interventions are taken to scale.

Keywords: Educational Institutions & Facilities; Effective Schools and Teachers; Educational Sciences; Early Childhood Development; Nutrition; Reproductive Health; Early Child and Children's Health; Children and Youth; Gender and Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-02-07
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