Dina Tinjić, Anna Nordén
Crisis-driven digitalization and academic success across disciplines
PloS one
education systems regularly face unexpected school closures whether due disease outbreaks natural disasters adverse shocks lowincome countries internet access scarce distance learning common educational solution often passive via tv radio little opportunity teacherstudent interaction paper evaluate effectiveness live tutoring calls teachers designed supplement radio instruction 2020 school closures prompted covid19 pandemic randomised controlled trial 4399 primary school students sierra leone tutoring calls led limited increase educational activity effect mathematics language test scores whether girls boys whether provided public private school teachers even received tutoring calls one three children reported listening educational radio limited takeup may partly explain results