scholarly journals Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menno Pradhan ◽  
Daniel Suryadarma ◽  
Amanda Beatty ◽  
Maisy Wong ◽  
Arya Gaduh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Novel Treatments ◽  
School Committee ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Village Council ◽  
School Committees

Education ministries worldwide have promoted community engagement through school committees. This paper presents results from a large field experiment testing alternative approaches to strengthen school committees in public schools in Indonesia. Two novel treatments focus on institutional reforms. First, some schools were randomly assigned to implement elections of school committee members. Another treatment facilitated joint planning meetings between the school committee and the village council (linkage). Two more common treatments, grants and training, provided resources to existing school committees. We find that institutional reforms, in particular linkage and elections combined with linkage, are most cost-effective at improving learning. (JEL H52, I21, I25, I28, O15)

scholarly journals Asking young children to “do science” instead of “be scientists” increases science engagement in a randomized field experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (18) ◽  
pp. 9808-9814
Author(s):  
Marjorie Rhodes ◽  
Amanda Cardarelli ◽  
Sarah-Jane Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
Children's Beliefs ◽  
And Behavior

Subtle features of common language can imply to young children that scientists are a special and distinct kind of person—a way of thinking that can interfere with the development of children’s own engagement with science. We conducted a large field experiment (involving 45 prekindergarten schools, 130 teachers, and over 1,100 children) to test if targeting subtle properties of language can increase science engagement in children’s daily lives. Despite strong tendencies to describe scientists as a special kind of person (in a baseline control condition), brief video-based training changed the language that teachers used to introduce science to their students. These changes in language were powerful enough to predict children’s science interest and behavior days later. Thus, subtle features of language shape children’s beliefs and behaviors as they unfold in real world environments. Harnessing these mechanisms could promote science engagement in early childhood.

scholarly journals Managing the Behavior of Public Frontline Employees through Change-Oriented Training: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Jakobsen ◽  
Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen ◽  
Søren Serritzlew
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Substantial Effect ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Frontline Employees ◽  
Employee Behavior ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale Field

Abstract Most public frontline employees work out of sight of management. Direct management through authority and incentives is therefore often challenging. We argue that managers can rely on change-oriented training as an effective management tool that can affect employee behavior and work as an alternative or supplement to commands and incentives. First, we outline the concept of change-oriented training and explain how it can direct the behavior of public employees towards organizational goals and political priorities. Second, we test the effect of change-oriented training on employee behavior in a large-scale field experiment of teachers in Danish public schools. We show that training has a substantial effect on teachers’ behavior in the classroom and infer from this that training should be seen as a valuable management tool with the ability to influence the behavior of frontline employees.

scholarly journals Asking young children to "do science" instead of "be scientists" increases science engagement in a randomized field experiment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Rhodes ◽  
Amanda Cardarelli ◽  
Sarah-Jane Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
Children's Beliefs ◽  
And Behavior

Subtle features of common language can imply to young children that scientists are a special and distinct kind of person—a way of thinking that can interfere with the development of children’s own engagement with science. We conducted a large field experiment (involving 45 pre-kindergarten schools, 130 teachers, and over 1,100 children from racially, ethnically and economically diverse backgrounds) to test if targeting subtle properties of language can increase science engagement in children’s daily lives. Despite strong tendencies to describe scientists as a special kind of person (in a baseline control condition), brief video-based training changed the language that teachers used to introduce science to their students. These changes in language were powerful enough to predict children’s science interest and behavior days later. Thus, subtle features of language shape children’s beliefs and behaviors as they unfold in real world environments. Harnessing these mechanisms could promote science engagement across diverse populations of young children.

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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Huang ◽  
Probal Mojumder ◽  
Tianshu Sun ◽  
Jinchi Lv ◽  
Joseph Golden
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Ex Ante

scholarly journals Evaluation of the effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in the zebrafish touch-evoked response: quantitative vs. qualitative assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Guzman ◽  
Gisela Besa ◽  
Daniela Linares ◽  
Lara González ◽  
Caterina Pont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Evoked Response ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Screening Tools ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Toxicity Screening ◽  
Novel Treatments ◽  
Ache Inhibitors

Abstract Background The difficulty of finding new treatments for neurological diseases with great impact in our society like Alzheimer’s disease can be ascribed in part to the complexity of the nervous system and the lack of quick and cost-effective screening tools. Such tools could not only help to identify potential novel treatments, but could also be used to test environmental contaminants for their potential to cause neurotoxicity. It has been estimated that 5–10% of the anthropogenic chemicals are developmental neurotoxic (DNT) and exposure to DNT compounds has been linked to several neurological diseases. Within this study we were testing the applicability of a quick and cost-effective behavioural test using zebrafish embryos: the touch-evoked response assay, in this case, an assay evaluating the swimming response to a tap in the tail. Two acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors positive controls (paraoxon and huprine Y), as well as 10 huprine-derivative compounds were tested and the results were evaluated using 2 different methods, a quantitative and a qualitative one. Results We could show that the methodology presented is able to detect behavioural effects of AChE inhibitors. A good correlation between the results obtained with the quantitative and the qualitative method was obtained (R2 = 0.84). Conclusions Our proposed method enables combination of screening for new drugs with toxicity screening in a whole embryo model alternative to animal experimentation, thereby merging 2 drug development steps into one.

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