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Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Student’s Gains in Achievement in Nepal

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Capacity Building

The project has conducted various training and development activities. All of the training activities are targeted to build capacity of stakeholders, and/or young researchers at ISER-N.
CLASSROOM OBSERVATION TRAINING FOR OBSERVER

August 29, 2024

Principal investigator, Prof. Dr. Dirgha Jibi Ghimire and Project Manager Mr. Prem Prakash Pandit conducted classroom observation training in a 3-day workshop from Jan 18 to 20, 2019 at ISER-N. A total of 12 trainees participated in that training. Th...

SUPERVISORS TRAINING

August 29, 2024

A one day training on Sample Management using the program Client Survey DG was conducted. The training primarily focused on using the Survey DG for sample management for CAPI. The goal of the training was to make supervisors learn about the program (...

STUDY SPECIFIC TRAINING (SST)

August 29, 2024

Two days of extensive Study Specific Training (SST) for the students and parents data collection on Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal was prov...

GENERAL INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES (GIT) TRAINING

August 29, 2024

The training was provided to newly hired 45 interviewers in March/April 2019. The nine days of training were aimed to train the interviewers on the techniques, principles and ethics of interviewing. The resource persons were highly experienced resear...

EXAMINER TRAINING ON THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENT

August 29, 2024

  A three-day training session on scoring the student assessment was provided to new research staff to standardized scoring (to minimize inter-examiner inconsistencies).  Twenty examiners participated.  (14,595 baseline assessments hav...

RESEARCH STAFF TRAINING ON DATA MANAGEMENT AND DATA ANALYSIS

August 29, 2024

Prof. Brian Rowan, Co-Investigator from the University of Michigan, visited the research site in February 2019 and provided a three-day training session on data quality checking (nonresponse, item missing, reliability, validity, inter-rater correlati...

TRAINING ON CREATING THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENT

August 29, 2024

ISER-N research staff was trained on the development of the student achievement assessment materials and protocol. Training sessions were conducted by professionals—joint secretary, chief, and subject matter specialists in mathematics, science,...