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The problem
Intervention: Accelerated learning program providing 7 months of service to out-of-school children aged 9-14
Who it was tested with: 1,723 out-of-school children aged 9-14 in Northeast Nigeria (850 treatment, 873 control); subgroups analyzed by gender, displacement status, and mother tongue language.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"We used a randomized control trial (RCT) with 1,723 out of school children, ages 9–14 (850 treatment and 873 control), to determine the impact of an accelerated learning program (ALP) on the literacy, numeracy and social-emotional learning (SEL) outcomes of OOS children in Northeast Nigeria." This is a rigorous experimental design with random assignment to treatment and control groups, meeting the standard for EXPERIMENTAL evidence tier.
The document abstracts do not provide specific effect sizes, confidence intervals, or details of subgroup-specific outcomes. The mechanism for why SEL outcomes were not affected despite academic improvements is not explained in the available text.
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 2 countries
