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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| Language: | English |
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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 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31864 |
| Summary: | 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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