How to improve pupils’ literacy? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a French educational project
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Sébastien Massoni, Jean-Christophe Vergnaud
Economics of Education Review Volume 31, Number 1 ISSN 0272-7757 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The "Action Lecture" program is an innovative teaching method run in some nursery and primary schools in Paris and designed to improve pupils’ literacy. We report the results of an evaluation of this program. We describe the experimental protocol that was built to estimate the program's impact on several types of indicators. Data were processed following a Differences-in-Differences (DID) method. Then we use the estimation of the impact on academic achievement to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis and take a reduction of the class size program as a benchmark. The results are positive for the "Action Lecture" program.
Citation
Massoni, S. & Vergnaud, J.C. How to improve pupils’ literacy? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a French educational project. Economics of Education Review, 31(1), 84-91. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/206660/.
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