Support to Reaching All Children with Education Program Impact Evaluation 2020-2022 Lebanon

This evaluation consists of two rounds of data collection: a baseline survey that took place in 2020 and an endline survey in 2022. Both surveys are documented here.

Abstract

In 2021, Lebanon completed the pilot of a new coaching model that introduced a student-centered approach to teaching among teachers of grades 4 (elementary level) and grade 8 (middle school level). The design in this case focused on co-construction of a new coaching model to ensure adaptability to local context, a drive for on-site and ongoing support, and introduction of new elements in gradual manner that allowed for real-time practice, observation, and feedback. The model was selected by adapting similar prior experiences of Brazil, Kenya, Peru, South Africa, and the United States. The model focused on on-site and ongoing support to teachers using pedagogical coaches who visited each targeted teacher 6 times during the intervention.

The evaluation study used a randomized controlled trial approach, with coaches randomly assigned to either a treatment group that received training on the new coaching model or a control group that continued with business-as-usual practices. The study aimed to observe changes in teacher behavior in the classroom as they were trained on the new teaching modules. Coaches in English, French, and Biology were randomly selected for the intervention and assigned fewer teachers than usual, visiting each teacher at least four times. Baseline data from treatment and control groups (teachers, coaches, principals, and students) was collected in early 2020, while endline data was collected in spring 2022 after significant delays caused due to COVID-19.