Evidence Overview
At Educate!, we're obsessed with impact.
We continuously evaluate our approach to ensure that every investment results in better life outcomes for young people. We’re working alongside researchers, peers, policymakers, and young people to build a foundation of evidence that informs scalable, cost-effective, and highly impactful solutions.
Employment-Focused Learning in Secondary Schools
Educate partners with schools, educators, and policymakers to support the integration of an employment-focused subject in secondary schools, reaching young people through education systems at national scale.
Proof of Concept:
2014 randomized controlled trial (RCT) at end of model with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
See Educate!’s one-pager and the full write-up for the results
Impact at Scale:
2016 quasi-experimental evaluation (PSM) at end of model with BRAC's Independent Research and Evaluation Cell after scaling from 50 to 400 schools
See Educate!’s summary and the complete report to learn more
Longer-Term Results:
4-year follow on RCT with researchers from the University of California-Berkeley, The World Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
See Educate!’s interpretation memo and read the researchers’ executive summary and IPA’s summary for the results
See also an ROI estimate linking education gains to lifetime income
Validation of Systems-Change Model
After embedding our direct-to-youth solution into the national curriculum in Rwanda and supporting its rollout with a 2-year teacher training model, we conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with researchers from Oregon State University, the World Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
See Educate!’s interpretation memo and the researchers’ 6-month post-graduation evaluation research paper for the results
Livelihood Bootcamps for Young Women Unable to Access Secondary School
Educate! delivers livelihood bootcamps to increase earning and expand economic opportunity for youth outside traditional education.
Base of Evidence for Bootcamp Innovation:
Evaluation of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) training program which incorporated and accelerated the curriculum and pedagogy of our core model into a 3-week experience. 3.5-year follow-up randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the University of California-Berkeley
See an overview on the World Bank Blog by Gender Innovation Lab lead Markus Goldstein and the researchers’ report for the results