Matthew Jukes

How can children be engaged in the classroom? And what effect does this have on their learning?

Anyone who has watched a child truly absorbed in what they are doing knows what a powerful driver for learning it can be. When a child is engaged, they go deeper in their learning, are self-motivated, and persist at tasks for longer.

The Teach classroom observation tool – launched by the World Bank last week is a great initiative. Let’s collaborate to test and improve it.

If the word ‘science’ in the term ‘social science’ means what I think it means, we social scientists should be in the business of developing models for how we think the world works, testing them with data, and refining them.

The best ways to improve evaluations are less technical than people think. We evaluators have an uneasy attitude to this conclusion--our livelihoods depend on maintaining the impression that we have complex technical knowledge beyond the grasp of ordinary folk.

This is a cross post with Innovations for Poverty Action's blog":  Reposted with permission.