Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya

2019 Nobel Prize-winning economist, Professor Michael Kremer and co-authors ground-breaking study into Bridge International Academies methodology in Kenya reveals learning gains among the largest ever measured in international education.

Extract from the Study

“The effects in this study are among the largest in the international education literature, particularly for a program that was already operating at scale. 

“This study shows that attending schools delivering highly standardized education has the potential to produce dramatic learning gains at scale, suggesting that policymakers may wish to explore incorporation of standardization, including standardized lesson plans and teacher feedback and monitoring, in their own systems.”

Kremer and his co-authors found that primary pupils through Class 8 in Bridge International Academies, gain almost an additional year of learning (0.89) under Bridge International Academies’ integrated methodology, learning in two years what their peers learn in nearly three.

For Pre-Primary pupils the gains were even bigger. Those pupils in Bridge International Academies gained almost an additional year and half of learning (1.48), learning in two years what pupils  in other schools learn in three and a half years.