Private School Impact Evaluation 2016
Uganda, 2016
Identification
UGA_2016_PS-BL_v01_M
Private School Impact Evaluation 2016
Baseline Survey
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Uganda | UGA |
The Impact evaluation tests the effectiveness of low-cost interventions aimed at increasing teaching quality. The primary objectives of the impact evaluation are to generate evidence on the following questions:
I. Does providing short, frequent teaching tips to teachers through SMS result in an improvement in teacher effort, resulting in better student performance?
ii. Does providing a detailed classroom feedback report to teachers lead to improvements in teacher performance through increasing their understanding of their students’ performance?
iii. Are there any positive complementarities between i. and ii.?
Sample survey data [ssd]
The Uganda Private School Impact Evaluation describes: Individuals (Students, Teachers and Head Teachers)
Version
v01, edited and anonymous datasets
Scope
The Scope of this Studies includes:
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HEAD TEACHER: Characteristics of head teacher, Characteristics of School, Teacher Hiring, Neighboring Public and Private schools, Income, expenditure and logistical support, School Governance and STEP Characteristics.
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TEACHER: Characteristics of teacher, Employment activities of teacher, STEP Characteristics
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CAPI Module: School Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics and Student Testing.
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STUDENT INFORMATION
Coverage
All public secondary schools with more than 80 students per class in Uganda. From this list the following schools were dropped:
(i) schools already adopting Double Shift;
(ii) boarding schools;
(iii) hard to reach schools; and
(iv) schools in Karamoja where security issues were present.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Shwetlena Sabarwal | World Bank |
Sampling
Impact evaluation sample was constructed using Education Management Information System; headcount data for schools from 2010.
In collaboration with the MoES, these data were used to identify all public secondary schools with more than 80 students per class in Uganda.
There were 198 over-enrolled schools identified and selected to be part of the evaluation sample.
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225 head teacher surveys
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636 teachers tested
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29,248 students tested
The team visited 231 schools with the following outcomes:
a.) Detailed information was obtained from 225 schools.
b.) 3 schools were no longer in operation
c.) 3 schools declined to participate in the survey.
Survey instrument
Questionnaires for this Impact Evaluation were structured to collect information about: Teachers, Head Teachers and Students.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2016-03-18 | 2016-10-13 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| InfoPlus | Data collection firm |
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Malek Abu-Jawdeh | World Bank |
Data Access
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example,
Shwetlena Sabarwal, World Bank. Uganda - Private School Impact Evaluation 2016, Baseline Survey. Ref. UGA_2016_PS-BL_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Shwetlena Sabarwal | World Bank | ssabarwal@worldbank.org |