Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia

Pradhan, Menno; Suryadarma, Daniel; Beatty, Amanda; Wong, Maisy; Alishjabana, Armida; Gaduh, Arya; Artha, Rima Prama

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-5795

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“…Selection of the school committee chairperson-by the vote of attendees at selection meetings, 55 as opposed to being appointed by the principal or selected through consensus-is significantly negatively associated with teacher absence from teaching, conditional on being scheduled to teach. Another study in Indonesia showed that democratically elected school committee increased community awareness (Pradhan et al 2014). It is plausible that this increased awareness affects teachers' behavior, but this survey did not collect additional data.…”

Section: Democratically Elected School Committee Chair Is Correlated mentioning

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“…Five percent of the committees in the sample schools only have a chairperson, without other committee members. Interestingly, Pradhan et al (2014) test the effectiveness of various school committee institutional reforms and find that the election of committee members does not lead to improvements in student learning, although it does increase community awareness. These findings suggest that community awareness alone does not provide committees with the legitimacy and power needed to improve educational service delivery.…”

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Primary Education in Remote Indonesia

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Primary Education in Remote Indonesia

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“…Pradhan et al. () in Indonesia found that facilitated ‘linkage’ meetings between a school's school committee and the local village council, had a significantly positive impact on test scores. The authors suggest that this likely worked because this ‘linkage’ connected stakeholders with knowledge of the school to a more powerful local institution (the village council).…”

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What education policies and programmes affect learning and time in school in developing countries? A review of evaluations from 1990 to 2014

Damon

Glewwe

Wisniewski³

et al. 2018

Review of Education

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In this paper we provide a rigorous review of evaluations of education programmes in developing countries. This review is organised to provide guidance to policy-makers by identifying education interventions that are effective, sometimes effective, and not effective and by presenting some information on the cost effectiveness of different types of interventions. We distinguish between interventions' impacts on two types of outcomes: time in schools and learning as measured by test scores. Regarding children's time in school, we find that there are two effective, but admittedly relatively expensive, ways to increase enrolment and attendance: (1) Providing cash transfers conditional on attendance; and (2) Building new schools in communities where schools either do not exist or are far away. We have identified four interventions that have been shown to be effective at increasing test scores: (1) Merit-based student scholarships; (2) Teaching at the right level;(3) Decreasing pupil-teacher ratios; and (4) Building new schools.

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“…For example, the Individually-paced computer assisted learning program in India (Banerjee, Cole, Duflo, & Linden, 2007), which is ranked eleventh of 14 in the original cost-effectiveness, rises as far as first place (i.e., most cost-effective). Similarly, the Electing school committee and linking to local government program in Indonesia (Pradhan et al, 2012) goes from being one of the most cost-effective programs to one of the least cost-effective.…”

Section: Errors In the Estimation Of Impactmentioning

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