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Leveraging school principals to address learning loss in Indonesia through group and individual targeting

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Abstract

In Indonesia, COVID-19 pandemic-induced school closures led to a significant loss of learning among students, necessitating remedial learning programs. Thus, we aimed to explore whether differentiated remedial teaching can improve the foundational numeracy skills of students and if the improvements would be better in schools with added individual tutoring. We also aimed to understand whether additional training of school principals would strengthen the results. After implementing four interventions in 25 primary schools to 1,545 students for 8 weeks, we found that all interventions significantly improved the foundational numeracy skills of students, students in schools with added individual tutoring did better than those without the added tutoring, and teachers in schools with trained principals were more punctual in implementing the intervention.

Author
Susanti, Dewi
Anand, Gautam
Arifin, Firda Arianti
Pratama, Patrya
Corporate Author
Asian Development Bank Institute
Year of publication
2023
Pages
21
Country (Geographical area)
Level of education
Source database
library
Language