Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania
The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education outcomes, particularly in developing and transition countries where institutional deficiencies can distort incentives. This paper...
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ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL ABSENCE OF TEACHERS ACADEMIC YEAR ADULTS APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS ATTENDANCE RATES AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION AVERAGE TEST SCORES BENEFITS OF EDUCATION CALL CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CURRICULA DECENTRALIZATION DELIVERY OF EDUCATION DELIVERY OF EDUCATION SERVICES DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DROPOUT RATE DROPOUT RATES EDUCATED PARENTS EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS EDUCATION AUTHORITIES EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION DIRECTORATES EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATION OFFICES EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL OUTPUTS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ELEMENTS EXAM EXPENDITURES FIELD EXPERIMENTS FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAMINATIONS FINAL EXAMS FINAL GRADES FORMAL LITERACY GRADE REPETITION HEAD TEACHERS HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HIGHER REPETITION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INSTRUCTION INTERVENTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT LOCAL SCHOOLS MATH TEACHER MATH TEST MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MOTIVATION OF TEACHERS NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT ASSOCIATIONS PARENT INVOLVEMENT PARENT PARTICIPATION PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PERFORMANCE IN MATH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PROVISION OF TEXTBOOKS PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY SCHOOLS READERS REGIONAL EDUCATION REPETITION RATE REPETITION RATES RESEARCHERS RESISTANCE OF TEACHERS RURAL AREAS RURAL LOCATIONS RURAL SCHOOLS RURAL TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BOARDS SCHOOL COMMITTEE SCHOOL COMMITTEES SCHOOL CONTEXT SCHOOL COUNCIL SCHOOL DAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS SCHOOL FAILURE SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL INSPECTIONS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL SUCCESS SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS SHOW HOW SMALLER NUMBER STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT REPETITION STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUPPLY OF EDUCATION SERVICES TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER APPRAISAL TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER MOTIVATION TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES TEACHER SALARIES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHER UNIONS TEACHER-PUPIL RATIO TEACHERS TEACHERS SALARIES TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING MATERIALS TEST SCORES TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TRANSFER OF TEACHERS UNIVERSITY DEGREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION UNIVERSITY STUDENTS URBAN SCHOOLS VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VOCATIONAL SCHOOL |
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ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL ABSENCE OF TEACHERS ACADEMIC YEAR ADULTS APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS ATTENDANCE RATES AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION AVERAGE TEST SCORES BENEFITS OF EDUCATION CALL CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CURRICULA DECENTRALIZATION DELIVERY OF EDUCATION DELIVERY OF EDUCATION SERVICES DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DROPOUT RATE DROPOUT RATES EDUCATED PARENTS EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS EDUCATION AUTHORITIES EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION DIRECTORATES EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATION OFFICES EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL OUTPUTS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ELEMENTS EXAM EXPENDITURES FIELD EXPERIMENTS FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAMINATIONS FINAL EXAMS FINAL GRADES FORMAL LITERACY GRADE REPETITION HEAD TEACHERS HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HIGHER REPETITION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INSTRUCTION INTERVENTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT LOCAL SCHOOLS MATH TEACHER MATH TEST MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MOTIVATION OF TEACHERS NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT ASSOCIATIONS PARENT INVOLVEMENT PARENT PARTICIPATION PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PERFORMANCE IN MATH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PROVISION OF TEXTBOOKS PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY SCHOOLS READERS REGIONAL EDUCATION REPETITION RATE REPETITION RATES RESEARCHERS RESISTANCE OF TEACHERS RURAL AREAS RURAL LOCATIONS RURAL SCHOOLS RURAL TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BOARDS SCHOOL COMMITTEE SCHOOL COMMITTEES SCHOOL CONTEXT SCHOOL COUNCIL SCHOOL DAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS SCHOOL FAILURE SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL INSPECTIONS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL SUCCESS SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS SHOW HOW SMALLER NUMBER STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT REPETITION STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUPPLY OF EDUCATION SERVICES TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER APPRAISAL TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER MOTIVATION TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES TEACHER SALARIES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHER UNIONS TEACHER-PUPIL RATIO TEACHERS TEACHERS SALARIES TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING MATERIALS TEST SCORES TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TRANSFER OF TEACHERS UNIVERSITY DEGREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION UNIVERSITY STUDENTS URBAN SCHOOLS VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VOCATIONAL SCHOOL Serra, Danila Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 5643 |
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The extent to which teachers and school
directors are held to account may play a central role in
determining education outcomes, particularly in developing
and transition countries where institutional deficiencies
can distort incentives. This paper investigates the
relationship between an expanded set of school inputs,
including proxies for the functionality of
"top-down" and "bottom-up"
accountability systems, and education outputs in Albanian
primary schools. The authors use data generated by an
original survey of 180 nationally representative schools.
The analysis shows a strong negative correlation between
measures of top-down accountability and students' rates
of grade repetition and failure in final examinations, and a
strong positive correlation between measures of top-down
accountability and students' excellence in math.
Bottom-up accountability measures are correlated to various
education outputs, although they tend lose statistical
significance once parent characteristics, school resources
and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An
in-depth analysis of participatory accountability within the
schools focuses on parents' willingness to hold
teachers to account. Here, the survey data are combined with
data from lab-type experiments conducted with parents and
teachers in the schools. In general, the survey data
highlight problems of limited parental involvement and lack
of information about participatory accountability
structures. The experiments indicate that the lack of
parental participation in the school accountability system
is owing to information constraints and weak institutions
that allow parent class representatives to be appointed by
teachers rather than elected by parents. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Serra, Danila Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman |
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Serra, Danila Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman |
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Serra, Danila |
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Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania |
| title_short |
Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania |
| title_full |
Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania |
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Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania |
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Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania |
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education outcomes, school governance and parents' demand for accountability : evidence from albania |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/04/14114257/education-outcomes-school-governance-parents-demand-accountability-evidence-albania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19879 |
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okr-10986-198792021-04-23T14:03:52Z Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania Serra, Danila Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL ABSENCE OF TEACHERS ACADEMIC YEAR ADULTS APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS ATTENDANCE RATES AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION AVERAGE TEST SCORES BENEFITS OF EDUCATION CALL CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CURRICULA DECENTRALIZATION DELIVERY OF EDUCATION DELIVERY OF EDUCATION SERVICES DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DROPOUT RATE DROPOUT RATES EDUCATED PARENTS EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS EDUCATION AUTHORITIES EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION DIRECTORATES EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATION OFFICES EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL OUTPUTS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ELEMENTS EXAM EXPENDITURES FIELD EXPERIMENTS FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAMINATIONS FINAL EXAMS FINAL GRADES FORMAL LITERACY GRADE REPETITION HEAD TEACHERS HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HIGHER REPETITION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INSTRUCTION INTERVENTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT LOCAL SCHOOLS MATH TEACHER MATH TEST MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MOTIVATION OF TEACHERS NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMERACY OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT ASSOCIATIONS PARENT INVOLVEMENT PARENT PARTICIPATION PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PERFORMANCE IN MATH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PROVISION OF TEXTBOOKS PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY SCHOOLS READERS REGIONAL EDUCATION REPETITION RATE REPETITION RATES RESEARCHERS RESISTANCE OF TEACHERS RURAL AREAS RURAL LOCATIONS RURAL SCHOOLS RURAL TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BOARDS SCHOOL COMMITTEE SCHOOL COMMITTEES SCHOOL CONTEXT SCHOOL COUNCIL SCHOOL DAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS SCHOOL FAILURE SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL INSPECTIONS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL SUCCESS SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS SHOW HOW SMALLER NUMBER STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT REPETITION STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUPPLY OF EDUCATION SERVICES TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER APPRAISAL TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER MOTIVATION TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES TEACHER SALARIES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHER UNIONS TEACHER-PUPIL RATIO TEACHERS TEACHERS SALARIES TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING MATERIALS TEST SCORES TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TRANSFER OF TEACHERS UNIVERSITY DEGREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION UNIVERSITY STUDENTS URBAN SCHOOLS VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES VOCATIONAL SCHOOL The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education outcomes, particularly in developing and transition countries where institutional deficiencies can distort incentives. This paper investigates the relationship between an expanded set of school inputs, including proxies for the functionality of "top-down" and "bottom-up" accountability systems, and education outputs in Albanian primary schools. The authors use data generated by an original survey of 180 nationally representative schools. The analysis shows a strong negative correlation between measures of top-down accountability and students' rates of grade repetition and failure in final examinations, and a strong positive correlation between measures of top-down accountability and students' excellence in math. Bottom-up accountability measures are correlated to various education outputs, although they tend lose statistical significance once parent characteristics, school resources and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An in-depth analysis of participatory accountability within the schools focuses on parents' willingness to hold teachers to account. Here, the survey data are combined with data from lab-type experiments conducted with parents and teachers in the schools. In general, the survey data highlight problems of limited parental involvement and lack of information about participatory accountability structures. The experiments indicate that the lack of parental participation in the school accountability system is owing to information constraints and weak institutions that allow parent class representatives to be appointed by teachers rather than elected by parents. 2014-08-29T18:56:08Z 2014-08-29T18:56:08Z 2011-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/04/14114257/education-outcomes-school-governance-parents-demand-accountability-evidence-albania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19879 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 5643 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia ALBANIA |