Measuring and Explaining Management in Schools : New Approaches Using Public Data
Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also expla...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/835301573071659790/Measuring-and-Explaining-Management-in-Schools-New-Approaches-Using-Public-Data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32662 |
| Summary: | Why do some students learn more in some
schools than others? One consideration receiving growing
attention is school management. To study this, researchers
need to be able to measure school management accurately and
cheaply at scale, and also explain any observed relationship
between school management and student learning. This paper
introduces a new approach to measurement using existing
public data, and applies it to build a management index
covering 15,000 schools across 65 countries, and another
index covering nearly all public schools in Brazil. Both
indices show a strong, positive relationship between school
management and student learning. The paper then develops a
simple model that formalizes the intuition that strong
management practices might be driving learning gains via
incentive and selection effects among teachers, students and
parents. The paper shows that the predictions of this model
hold in public data for Latin America, and draws out
implications for policy. |
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