TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Siebert, W. Stanley
AU  - Wei, Xiangdong
AU  - Wong, Ho Lun
AU  - Zhou, Xiang
        TI  - Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
        PY  - 2018/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11347
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11347
        AB  - This study reports a randomized controlled trial to improve teacher-student-parent feedback, conducted in a rural county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old) over two school terms. We find that bi-weekly student feedbacks using our special scorecard of schoolwork and behavior improve mathematics results by 0.16 to 0.20 standard deviations, with 0.09 for language. Communicating these assessments also to parents produces further large mathematics benefits for young left-behind children, about 0.30 standard deviations. A low-cost investment in better feedback thus brings significant achievement gains especially for disadvantaged children.
        KW  - student assessment
KW  - randomized controlled trial
KW  - parent-teacher communication
KW  - academic performance
KW  - rural China
        ER  -