A caveat on the experiment design and another on project implementation are in order. Due to resource constraints and policy principles of the state for piloting new curricular ideas, the experiment was conducted in one education district only. The 41 schools in the study were therefore not decided based on power calculations. All results need to be interpreted allowing for this detail and the additional analyses in the form of bootstrapping and randomization inference.

Second, due to the sudden changes in the curricular calendar of Tamil Nadu schools in the months of March and April 2024, additional end line assessments to test whether the CT sessions impacted student performance in their usual subjects such as math and English could not be conducted. In the parliamentary election schedule announced in March, Tamil Nadu featured in the first phase. This meant curtailing of some academic hours for all subjects as well as rescheduling school final exams. Therefore, only CT skills test could be conducted for the end line.

 

[1] Based on Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance