Improving Student Learning in Remote Areas with Digital Tools: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Senegal

In Senegal, as in many SSA countries, teaching quality has been shown to be problematic, and the cause of insufficient learning from students. The team is currently evaluating the short-term impact of delivering a digital kit to teachers in 140 schools in the Kedougou region during the 2023-2024 school year. A kit comprises a computer, several tablets, a video projector, and an offline library containing many different text, video, and audio files. Their data shows that take-up and satisfaction of the program are high and the Ministry of Education (MoE) wants to establish the project in the long term. Together with the implementing partner and the MoE, they will keep the same set of treatment and control schools to conduct a follow-up survey at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year to document the evolution of the adherence and its effects over time.