Technology to Empower Actors Across the Learning Ecosystem

In Pakistan, as in many developing countries, students are often multiple grades behind, and there is wide dispersion in learning levels within a single classroom. This ongoing study in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) of Pakistan uses a randomized control trial to understand how technology can be used to provide information to teachers, school heads, and parents both about students' current understanding of the material and to provide tailored instructional materials based on students’ learning levels. We evaluate whether providing this tailored information, along with monitoring teachers based on student growth in mastery, impacts teacher and parent behavior and student learning. The study is being conducted with students, teachers, school leaders, and parents in 560 public primary schools in collaboration with the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFe&PT) in ICT in Pakistan.