{"id":230,"date":"2008-01-13T19:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/cameras-to-prevent-teacher-absenteeism-in-rural-india"},"modified":"2008-02-07T04:37:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:37:39","slug":"cameras-to-prevent-teacher-absenteeism-in-rural-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/cameras-to-prevent-teacher-absenteeism-in-rural-india","title":{"rendered":"Cameras to prevent teacher absenteeism in rural India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">Update:<\/font> After writing this post, I looked at the <a href=\"http:\/\/econ-www.mit.edu\/files\/2066\">original research paper<\/a> and wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/economy\/reducing-teacher-absenteeism-in-rural-india\">much more detailed post<\/a> on this topic which is worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/db729908-b8fb-11dc-bb66-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1\">Interesting idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Esther Duflo, a French economics professor at MIT, wondered whether there was anything that could be done about absentee teachers in rural India, which is a large problem for remote schoolhouses with a single teacher. Duflo and her colleague Rema Hanna took a sample of 120 schools in Rajasthan, chose 60 at random, and sent cameras to teachers in the chosen schools. The cameras had tamper-proof date and time stamps, and the teachers were asked to get a pupil to photograph the teacher with the class at the beginning and the end of each school day.<\/p>\n<p>It was a simple idea, and it worked. Teacher absenteeism plummeted, as measured by random audits, and the class test scores improved markedly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found: <a href=\"http:\/\/suvratk.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/camera-tricks-on-absent-teachers.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: After writing this post, I looked at the original research paper and wrote a much more detailed post on this topic which is worth reading. Interesting idea: Esther Duflo, a French economics professor at MIT, wondered whether there was anything that could be done about absentee teachers in rural India, which is a large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/cameras-to-prevent-teacher-absenteeism-in-rural-india\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cameras to prevent teacher absenteeism in rural India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-india","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cameras to prevent teacher absenteeism in rural India - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/cameras-to-prevent-teacher-absenteeism-in-rural-india\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cameras to prevent teacher absenteeism in rural India - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update: After writing this post, I looked at the original research paper and wrote a much more detailed post on this topic which is worth reading. 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