Vietnam Escuela Nueva (VNEN) is a large education project funded by the Global Partnership for Education and carried out nationwide by the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam with support from the World Bank. The project aimed to improve teaching and learning capacities in primary schools using a successful model from Colombia. VNEN’s teaching and learning methodology centers on students and stimulates independent and creative thinking. The model also engages parents and community as a whole in primary education. The impact assessment of the project in the 2013-2014 school year aims to lay the foundation for the project’s overall evaluation. In this project, RTA performed Impact Assessment for 209 primary schools in the South of Vietnam.

RTA’s main tasks:

• Recruited and provided training for 40 interviewers to carry out interviews using tablets
• Conducted surveys and monitored fieldwork
• Provided data cleaning and data quality control daily through rtSurvey
• Delivered dataset to project’s Principle Investigator weekly