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Effectiveness Study of Teacher Training and Social and Financial Education in Rwanda's Primary and Secondary Schools

NCT02348580 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1750

Last updated 2015-07-31

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Summary

The study uses experimental methods to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in Rwanda. The intervention, designed by Aflatoun and AMIR, involves training teachers on the use of active-learning methods to implement a social and financial education curriculum with students in primary and secondary schools. Teachers then implement the social and financial curriculum with students in order to improve their personal, social, and financial competencies.

Teacher training will take place in November-December 2013 and the curriculum implementation will be evaluated in the 2014 school year.

The study will examine the following hypotheses:

1. Did teachers use of active learning methods in class increase due to the training received?
2. Did students' levels of engagement and on-task behaviour increase as a result of the intervention's pedagogy and content?
3. Did the following competencies of students improve due to the intervention?

1. Self-efficacy
2. Social skills
3. Financial literacy
4. Planning attitudes
5. Savings attitudes
6. Savings behavior
7. Entrepreneurship
4. Did the intervention change student's pass rates on the primary six (P6) and secondary three (S3) final examinations for the classes in which it was implemented?
5. Did the intervention change student drop out rates in the classes which it was implemented?

Conditions

  • Active Learning Methods and Life-skills Education

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Child centered teaching of life-skills

The intervention includes five core components: (1) personal understanding and exploration, (2) rights and responsibilities, (3) savings and spending, (4) planning and budgeting, and (5) social and financial enterprise. The training and curriculum are both manualized. The curriculum is in English and is regionally specific (for Anglophone Africa) and has been contextualized for Rwanda. The minimum hours required by Aflatoun's fidelity guide is 20 hours which includes 10 hours of curriculum lesson and 10 hours of learning activities (savings groups, social and financial projects, club activities etc).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Stichting Child Savings International

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-11-30
Completion
2015-03-31

Countries

  • Rwanda

Study Locations

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