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Quality for Preschool Impact Evaluation 2017: Endline Survey (Ghana)

author(s) Sharon Wolf (University of Pennsylvania) - 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 (University of Pennsylvania); John Lawrence Aber (New York University); Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania), 'Quality for Preschool Impact Evaluation 2017: Endline Survey (Ghana)', 2019

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Abstract

The Quality Preschool for Ghana Impact Evaluation 2017, Endline survey (QP4G-EL 2017) 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 Endline Survey, conducted with 3 types of respondents across two phases – School survey and Caregiver [household] surveys. The school survey was conducted from February to March 2017 and consisted of collecting the following data: (a) direct assessments of children’s school readiness, (b) surveys of KG teachers, (c) direct observation of inventory of facilities within KG classrooms [environmental scan]; videotaping of KG classroom processes, teaching, and learning (not being submitted); as well as video coding of KG classroom video recordings using Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes Systems (instrument not being submitted). The caregiver survey was conducted via phone from May to July August 2017 on the primary caregivers of the KG children. The caregiver survey sought information on caregivers’ background, poverty status, involvement or participation in school and home activities, and perception about ECD.

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