Clinical trial NCT02348580: Effectiveness Study of Teacher Training and Social and Financial Education in Rwanda's Primary and Secondary Schools
Official title: Active Learning Methods for Social and Financial Education in Rwanda's Primary and Secondary Schools: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Active Learning Methods and Life-skills Education
Keywords: teaching
education
active learning
time on task
financial education
social education
rights based education
primary school
life-skills
Lead sponsor: Stichting Child Savings International
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda
First posted: 2015-01-28
Enrollment: 1750
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The study uses experimental methods to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in Rwanda. The intervention, designed by Aflatoun and AMIR, involves training teachers on the use of active-learning methods to implement a social and financial education curriculum with students in primary and secondary schools. Teachers then implement the social and financial curriculum with students in order to improve their personal, social, and financial competencies.

Teacher training will take place in November-December 2013 and the curriculum implementation will be evaluated in the 2014 school year.

The study will examine the following hypotheses:

1. Did teachers use of active learning methods in class increase due to the training received?
2. Did students' levels of engagement and on-task behaviour increase as a result of the intervention's pedagogy and content?
3. Did the following competencies of students improve due to the intervention?

   1. Self-efficacy
   2. Social skills
   3. Financial literacy
   4. Planning attitudes
   5. Savings attitudes
   6. Savings behavior
   7. Entrepreneurship
4. Did the intervention change student's pass rates on the primary six (P6) and secondary three (S3) final examinations for the classes in which it was implemented?
5. Did the intervention change student drop out rates in the classes which it was implemented?


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Schools willing to participate in the intervention.
* Classes of students in grade P6 or S3 during academic year 2014
* Teachers of entrepreneurship, social studies, or mathematics

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-consenting individuals

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Teacher Use of Active Learning Methods (Observed)
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Change in Teacher Use of Active Learning Methods (Self-reported)
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Teacher Use of Active Learning Methods (Student report)
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Classroom Level of Student Engagement (Observed)
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Change in Student engagement (Student report)
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Students' Generalized Self-efficacy Scale (GSES-10)
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Students' Pro-Social (PS) (6-item) and Conduct Disorder (CD) (6-item) subscales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Students' Financial Literacy
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Students' Planning Attitudes
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Students' Savings Behavior
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Students' Savings Attitudes
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Change in Students' Entrepreneurship Attitudes & Behavior
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Difference in standardized examination pass rates on primary 6 (P6) and secondary 3 (S3) tests in study classes
timeFrame: December 2014
measure: Difference in percentage drop out rates of students in study classes
timeFrame: December 2014
measure: Change in Teachers use of Active Learning Methods (Observed) mediates Student Engagement (Observed)
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Change in Student Engagement (Observed) mediates Students' change in Savings Behavior
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
Locations:
city: Kigali
country: Rwanda
facility: Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda
state: Kigali City
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