Use of evidence in building back better education systems
Panel Discussion
About the Event
Panelists will discuss new advances in the measurement of teacher and classroom practices and shed light on development of tools to measure more well-rounded student outcomes than simply test scores. They will also discuss the use of innovation in evaluation during emergencies in light of her experience of implementing and evaluating a study completely online during peak COVID days. The experts will shed light upon the use of technology to measure student learning and teacher take-up of a post-COVID remedial program to help students catch up to their grade levels and thus build back better broken, budget-constrained public education systems.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Christina Brown | Saieh Family Fellow in Economics | Based on her recent experiment in Pakistan that investigated incentive types and employee productivity, she will talk about conventional and non-conventional methods of evaluation. She will shed light on the methods of measurement beyond testing and discuss the socio-emotional side of development. |
| Minahil Asim | Assistant Professor | Minahil Asim will talk about her journey of successfully completing research despite the unprecedented disruptions caused by Covid-19. She will discuss the unique process itself and the data collection and monitoring mechanisms she developed and deployed. |
| Isabel MacDonald | Postdoc Researcher | She will discuss her recent work in Pakistan where she is leading a large-scale Randomized Controlled Trial on accelerated learning. She will talk about the innovative approach of pivoting technology for collecting and using data in her study and the challenges that come with it. |
| Yaqoob Ali | Research Associate | He has been working in the education sector for over five years and was part of the team that led the implementation of the Punjab Education Sector Program II. More recently, he has been involved in research on educational landscape of Pakistan as a part of the LEAPS team. |