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| author | Borkum, Evan He, Fang Linden, Leigh L. |
| author_facet | Borkum, Evan He, Fang Linden, Leigh L. Borkum, Evan He, Fang Linden, Leigh L. |
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| contents | School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program. NBER Working Paper No. 18183 Borkum, Evan He, Fang Linden, Leigh L. Intervals Language Tests Attendance School Libraries Language Skills Library Services Evaluation Foreign Countries Elementary Education Scores Linguistic Competence We conduct a randomized evaluation of a school library program on children's language skills. We find that the program had little impact on students' scores on a language test administered 16 months after implementation. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.13 and 0.11 standard deviations based on the 95 and 90 percent confidence intervals. The finding of zero effects is robust to different modes of implementation, individual tested language competencies and various subsets of the student population. We also find no impact on test scores in other subjects or on school attendance rates. |
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| spellingShingle | School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program. NBER Working Paper No. 18183 Borkum, Evan He, Fang Linden, Leigh L. Intervals Language Tests Attendance School Libraries Language Skills Library Services Evaluation Foreign Countries Elementary Education Scores Linguistic Competence School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program. NBER Working Paper No. 18183 Borkum, Evan He, Fang Linden, Leigh L. Intervals Language Tests Attendance School Libraries Language Skills Library Services Evaluation Foreign Countries Elementary Education Scores Linguistic Competence We conduct a randomized evaluation of a school library program on children's language skills. We find that the program had little impact on students' scores on a language test administered 16 months after implementation. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.13 and 0.11 standard deviations based on the 95 and 90 percent confidence intervals. The finding of zero effects is robust to different modes of implementation, individual tested language competencies and various subsets of the student population. We also find no impact on test scores in other subjects or on school attendance rates. |
| title | School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program. NBER Working Paper No. 18183 |
| topic | Intervals Language Tests Attendance School Libraries Language Skills Library Services Evaluation Foreign Countries Elementary Education Scores Linguistic Competence |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED533104 |