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Intervening at Home and then at School : A Randomized Evaluation of Two Approaches to Improve Early Educational Outcomes in Tonga
Macdonald, Kevin - 2019
This paper evaluates and compares two randomized interventions in Tonga, one targeting the home environment of children up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports communities to set up and run playgroups that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896496
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Does School Safety and Classroom Disciplinary Climate Hinder Learning? Evidence from the MENA Region
Cahu, Paul Marie Michel - 2019
School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa region, as is demonstrated in this paper using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872116
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How Much Teachers Know and How Much it Matters in Class : Analyzing Three Rounds of Subject-Specific Test Score Data of Indonesian Students and Teachers
de Ree, Joppe - 2017
Improving the quality of education is one of today's main challenges for governments in the developing world. Based on a unique matched student-to-teacher panel data set on test scores this paper presents two empirical results for Indonesia. First, through detailed inspection of teacher-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970116
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Why Do Countries Participate in International Large-Scale Assessments? The Case of PISA
Lockheed, Marlaine - 2017
The number of countries that regularly participate in international large-scale assessments has increased sharply over the past 15 years, with the share of countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment growing from one-fifth of countries in 2000 to over one-third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970810
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Extending the School Day in Latin America and the Caribbean
Holland, Peter - 2017
Countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are reforming their education systems to add more hours to the school day. This paper examines the evidence on the relationship between instructional time and student learning, reviewing 19 studies that measure the effects of longer school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971577
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Is Optimization an Opportunity? An Assessment of the Impact of Class Size and School Size on the Performance of Ukrainian Secondary Schools
Coupe, Tom - 2017
Using a rich data set of almost the entire population of Ukrainian secondary schools, the authors estimate the effect … of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find … that larger schools tend to have somewhat better performance, both in terms of test scores and in terms of test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975633
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Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents'Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania
Serra, Danila - 2017
"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 … accountability within the schools focuses on parents' willingness to hold teachers to account. Here, the survey data are combined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976034
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Private Education Provision and Public Finance : The Netherlands
Patrinos, Harry A. - 2017
One of the key features of the Dutch education system is freedom of education -- freedom to establish schools and … organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976718
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What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2017
School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they complete their primary education lacking even basic reading,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964571
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Access to Pre-Primary Education and Progression in Primary School : Evidence from Rural Guatemala
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
communities in Guatemala, where the number of pre-primary schools increased from about 5,300 to 11,500 between 1998 and 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936461