School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico

A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was evalua...

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Main Authors: Garcia-Moreno, Vicente, Gertler, Paul, Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/316261560168539394/School-Based-Management-and-Learning-Outcomes-Experimental-Evidence-from-Colima-Mexico
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spelling okr-10986-318642022-09-20T00:13:55Z School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico Garcia-Moreno, Vicente Gertler, Paul Patrinos, Harry Anthony EDUCATION SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT EDUCATION QUALITY LEARNING OUTCOMES STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was evaluated in the Mexican state of Colima, being the first experimental evaluation of the national program. All schools were invited to participate in the program; a random selection was performed to select the treatment and control groups among all the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school-based management intervention plus a monetary grant was not enough to improve learning outcomes. First, the schools in the evaluation sample, control and treatment, were schools with high learning outcomes. Second, these schools had experienced some years of regular school-based management practices before the evaluation. A difference-in-difference design is used to identify heterogeneous effects of the program on learning outcomes. The difference-in-difference approach shows that the intensity of treatment increased test scores during the first year of the intervention. 2019-06-13T19:00:42Z 2019-06-13T19:00:42Z 2019-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/316261560168539394/School-Based-Management-and-Learning-Outcomes-Experimental-Evidence-from-Colima-Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31864 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8874 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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topic EDUCATION
SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION QUALITY
LEARNING OUTCOMES
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
TEST SCORES
spellingShingle EDUCATION
SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION QUALITY
LEARNING OUTCOMES
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
TEST SCORES
Garcia-Moreno, Vicente
Gertler, Paul
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico
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relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8874
description A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was evaluated in the Mexican state of Colima, being the first experimental evaluation of the national program. All schools were invited to participate in the program; a random selection was performed to select the treatment and control groups among all the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school-based management intervention plus a monetary grant was not enough to improve learning outcomes. First, the schools in the evaluation sample, control and treatment, were schools with high learning outcomes. Second, these schools had experienced some years of regular school-based management practices before the evaluation. A difference-in-difference design is used to identify heterogeneous effects of the program on learning outcomes. The difference-in-difference approach shows that the intensity of treatment increased test scores during the first year of the intervention.
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author Garcia-Moreno, Vicente
Gertler, Paul
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
author_facet Garcia-Moreno, Vicente
Gertler, Paul
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
author_sort Garcia-Moreno, Vicente
title School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico
title_short School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico
title_full School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico
title_fullStr School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico
title_sort school-based management and learning outcomes : experimental evidence from colima, mexico
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/316261560168539394/School-Based-Management-and-Learning-Outcomes-Experimental-Evidence-from-Colima-Mexico
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