benchmark

Annual Status of Education Report tool

Oral assessment instrument for foundational reading and arithmetic, originating in India's household learning surveys and widely used to measure basic skills in low- and middle-income countries.

Known aliases

ASER tool

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science2 publishers

A weekly 20-minute phone tutorial raised math scores in all five countries tested

Five randomized trials run during pandemic school closures found that a weekly 20-minute phone tutorial produced basic math gains in every country tested, while text messages alone gave mixed results across the same settings.

Publishers:nature.comphys.org

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption40
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence72