The PD program had a large and significant impact on classroom print environments in rural Rwanda¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The impact of the PD program on classroom print environments was large and statistically significant. → Angela Johnson 2019

Evidence¶

Angela Johnson 2019¶

Angela Johnson, Catherine Galloway, Elliot Friedlander, Claude Goldenberg. (2019). Advancing educational quality in Rwanda: Improving teachers' literacy pedagogy and print environments. International Journal of Educational Research 98, 134-145. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-educational-research doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2019.08.016

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Classroom print environment outcome from the Rwanda Literacy Boost randomized controlled trial: "The impact on classroom print environments was large and significant." The article characterizes the impact as large but prints no standardized effect size in the available text, so impact is coded null.

"The impact on classroom print environments was large and significant"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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