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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Uganda
GDP per capita	509
Context details	Rural schools from 4 poorly performing districts - Apac, Hoima, Iganga, Kiboga
Age	Grade 3

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2008
Implementer	Researchers
Duration (months)	11
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	School committees were trained on how to complete and use school score cards to improve planning and monitoring; 30 schools participated

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	School

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Combined	Standardized exam NAPE	2	2153	Coeff: 10.60; SE: 12.00; SD: 100.00

Study	Barr, Abigail., Frederick Mugisha, Pieter Serneels, and Andrew Zeitlin. "Information and collective action in community-based monitoring of schools: Field and lab experimental evidence from Uganda." Mimeograph (2012).