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Quality for Preschool Impact Evaluation 2015: Baseline Survey (Ghana)

author(s) Sharon Wolf (New York University) - John Lawrence Aber (New York University) - Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania)
from World Bank Group (WB)
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  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
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Sharon Wolf (New York University); John Lawrence Aber (New York University); Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania), 'Quality for Preschool Impact Evaluation 2015: Baseline Survey (Ghana)', 2016

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Abstract

The Ghana Quality for Preschool Impact Evaluation 2015, Baseline survey (QPIE-BL 2015) was approved by the Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) of the World Bank on August 2015 in the Great Accra Region of Ghana. The official project name is called "Testing and scaling-up supply- and demand-side interventions to improve kindergarten educational quality in Ghana”, known as “Quality Preschool for Ghana (QP4G)”.

The project seeks to increase the quality of preschool education during the two years of universal Kindergarten (KG) in Ghana through intervening in the supply-side (i.e., teacher in-service training) and the demand side (i.e., increasing parental awareness for developmentally appropriate quality early education).

The primary goal of the impact evaluation is to test the efficacy of a potentially scalable (8-day) in-service teacher training to improve the quality of KG teacher practices and interactions with children and to improve children’s development, school readiness and learning in both private and public preschools in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Additional goals of this evaluation are: to test the added value of combining a scalable (low-cost) parental awareness intervention with teacher in-service training; to compare implementation challenges in public and private schools; and to examine several important sources of potential heterogeneity of impact, primarily impacts in public vs. private schools.

The current submission is for the Baseline Survey, conducted with 5 types of respondents in two phases - Baseline I and Baseline II. Baseline I consisted of interviews with school head teachers and school proprietors (for private schools) and was conducted in June 2015. Baseline II consisted of collecting the following data: (a) direct assessments of children’s school readiness at school entry, (b) surveys of teacher well-being and demographics, (c) video recordings for classroom observations of teachers (not being submitted), and (d) caregiver surveys. This data collection was conducted from Sep-Nov 2015.

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