Manos Innovation Lab in Education
Quantitative research on what works in education.
High-quality education is both a human right and a key driver of economic growth. Improving education requires rigorous quantitative analysis.
Our mission is to provide robust evidence on educational interventions that improve student outcomes.
Cultural Context in Standardised Tests
We conducted a randomised controlled trial which shows large effects of cultural context on performance in standardised reading tests in New South Wales schools. The difference in performance on contextualised reading tests represents 33% of the rural-urban gap and 50% of the Indigenous-non-Indigenous gap.
Can money buy good grades?
The Gonski Data Lab allows users to visually explore relationships and trends between selected factors outside the school gate and the educational performance of students from individual communities.
