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nigeria-gains
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A six-week, teacher-guided after-school English program using Microsoft Copilot (GPT-4) in nine public schools in Benin City, Nigeria, improved overall assessment scores by 0.31 standard deviations and English scores by about 0.23 standard deviations.
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The intervention demonstrated a significant improvement of 0.31 standard deviation on an assessment that included English topics aligned with the Nigerian curriculum, knowledge of artificial intelligence and digital skills. The effect on English, the main outcome of interest, was of 0.23 standard deviations.
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