Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298164 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 718
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the impact on children's learning of one specific education technology (EdTech) intervention in Bangladesh: providing tablets with educational software, combined with private tutoring, to out-of-school students using a randomized control trial. The provision of tablets and tutors led to positive impacts on both the math and the Bangla language scores of out-of-school children, increasing math scores by approximately 0.25 standard deviations (SDs) of the distribution of test scores, and Bangla scores by approximately 0.17 SDs. The effects of the intervention were especially strong for girls compared to boys. Rural out-of-school children, but not urban out-ofschool children or out-of-school children in urban slums, benefited greatly from the program. The program has little effect on noncognitive traits such as competence, selfesteem, and grit. These findings have broader implications for implementing programs targeted to out-of-school children and distance education during school closures, such as those caused by pandemics.
Subjects: 
educational technology (EdTech)
out of school child (OOSC)
distance tutoring
teaching at the right level
foundational literacy and numeracy
JEL: 
I21
I25
O15
J24
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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