The Support to Rural India's Public Education System (STRIPES) Trial: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Supplementary Teaching, Learning Material and Material Support

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Lakshminarayana, Rashmi ^a   Eble, Alex ^a,b   Bhakta, Preetha ^c   Frost, Chris ^d   Boone, Peter ^a   Elbourne, Diana ^d   Mann, Vera ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Champalimaud Translational Centre   (India)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 84880487362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065775     Document Type: Article

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