Andhra Pradesh Randomized Evaluation Study (APRESt)

This is an ongoing randomised evaluation study done in partnership with World Bank, Harvard University, Azim Premji foundation (APF) and the Government of Andhra Pradesh (GOAP). It is a longitudinal study across 8 years and covers currently 80,000 elementary school kids in rural AP and measures the impact of teacher incentives vis- a- vis the inputs (eg., block grants, additional teachers). EI is engaged in developing the tests for classes 1-5 in language, maths and EVS.

EI also analyses the student performance in the various treatments as well as develop insights on how a student performs when confronted with items that require mechanical and conceptual understanding. The project also uses advanced statistical models from Modern Item Response theory. The project is in its fourth year and has assessed about 100,000 students till date.

EI is also helping GOAP build capacity through workshops for the Andhra Pradesh teachers and resource persons from the Education department. These workshops are aimed at training teachers to design assessments and use them in the classroom to understand and improve student learning. The teachers are also trained by EI in using the performance data generated from the tests conducted in APRESt.