Contract Teachers—Kenya~$100/ >100 SDs test score improvement
Merit Scholarships for Girls—Kenya~$100/ ~1 SD test score improvement
~100x for same outcome
Education
I’m guessing “>100 SDs test score improvement” is trying to say something like 1 standard deviation test score improvement for 100 students, right? I noticed this example is no longer on the original GWWC post so I couldn’t find the source.
I’m a bit confused by the following example:
I’m guessing “>100 SDs test score improvement” is trying to say something like 1 standard deviation test score improvement for 100 students, right? I noticed this example is no longer on the original GWWC post so I couldn’t find the source.
Thank you for flagging! I’ve updated the forum post with the text from the original article.
For more recent information on education interventions, I think the recent post Are education interventions as cost effective as the top health interventions? Five separate lines of evidence for the income effects of better education [Founders Pledge] might be interesting