∷ Beijing Yifang Foundation → Education [Research] → 2014
• Research on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training
Partner Organization: Stanford Rural Education Action Plan (REAP)
Project Duration: Sept 2014 - Dec 2015
Project Status: Completed
The Chinese central government has invested close to USD 1 billion annually since 2010 on teacher training in an effort to improve the quality of teachers in rural China. Apart from the government, many social welfare organizations and foundations have contributed to the cause through a variety of programmes. Despite these efforts, the results have left much to be desired. Most programmes have not been sustainable and there has been little improvement in the students’ academic performance and teaching quality. Even with these discouraging results, the Stanford Rural Education Action Plan (REAP) team undertook a one-year study to understand the fundamental issues, providing policy makers with the much-needed information to develop the most effective teacher training programme. By implementing programmes with the Henan Zhenyu Teacher Training Programme, the team prepared a report of recommendations, sharing their findings with the provincial and national level policy makers.
The Beijing Yifang Foundation, together with the Ford Foundation and the Xu Family Charitable Foundation collaborated to jointly fund the research project.