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Improving Students’ Testing Performance

General Information

Project description

A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) was conducted at seven of Amel’s community centers to improve the performance of students sitting for Cycle I exams. The trial consisted of a short activity that comprised of a ranking exercise whereby they have to rank a list of 10 values from most of least important to them, followed by a drawing exercise in which they have to visualize their number 1 value [9]. Both exercises were completed by students right before sitting for their exams.

Detailed information

Final report: Is there a final report presenting the results and conclusions of this project?

Yes

Final report

Who is behind the project?

Institution: Nudge Lebanon
Team: Nudge Lebanon

Project status:

Completed

Methods

Methodology: Field Experiment
Could you self-grade the strength of the evidence generated by this study?: 1

What is the project about?

Policy area(s): Education
Topic(s): Children, Training uptake, Youth
Behavioural tool(s): Framing, Goal Setting, Growth Mindset, Prompts

Date published:

17 December 2021

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