Free Education Project Impact Evaluation, 2020 Midline and Endline Surveys Sierra Leone, 2020 - 2021

This study includes midline and endline survey data collected for a randomized control trial testing impacts of SMS reminders to take-up remote instruction (radio broadcasts), phone tutorials from private school teachers, and phone tutorials from public school teachers. No baseline survey was conducted. The dataset is used to generate the publication 'Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone' that is published at the Journal of Development Economics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438782300069X.

Third party data was also used in the analysis. While not distributed here with the survey data, details on how to access it are provided below:

DSTI data can be requested from the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) in the Office of the President https://educationdatahub.dsti.gov.sl/
NPSE 2020 Exams are available from Freetown Council https://fcc.gov.sl/national-primary-school-examination-npse-2020/
EMIS data is available from the Ministry of Education https://mbsse.gov.sl/emis/
Shapefiles are available online: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-sle?

Survey data collected for a randomized control trial testing impacts of SMS reminders to take-up remote instruction (radio broadcasts), phone tutorials from private school teachers, and phone tutorials from public school teachers; and for the publication 'Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone'.