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Engaging High School Students in Cameroon with Exam Practice Quizzes via SMS and WhatsApp

We created a system to send regularly-spaced, multiple-choice questions to students' own mobile devices to help secondary school students in Cameroon with exam practice via either SMS or WhatsApp. Students' participation rates were heavily impacted by trust in the intervening organization and perceptions of personal security in the socio-technical environment. WhatsApp-based users had significantly lower participation as compared to SMS.