Improving the quality of primary education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Wolff, Laurence; Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Valenzuela, Jorge

doi:10.1596/0-8213-2985-5

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“…The findings of this study are also in keeping with the observations of Wolff et al (1994) who noted that research on inservice training shows generally inadequate results, particularly when these programs are designed to provide teachers with another degree. Effective professional development programs that are known to make a difference to the quality of teaching support teachers to develop their classroom practice.…”

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confidence: 79%

The Effects of Inservice Education on Teachers’ Knowledge of Junior Secondary School Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction in Delta State, Nigeria

Okobia¹

2013

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confidence: 79%

The Effects of Inservice Education on Teachers’ Knowledge of Junior Secondary School Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction in Delta State, Nigeria

Okobia¹

2013

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“…As a result, Latin American countries spent US$ 2.5 billion each year to teach these 20 million repeaters. Wolff et al (1994) found a strong negative correlation between repetition rates and school completion in Latin America. As children become older, the cost of retaining them in school increases.…”

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confidence: 89%

Technical Efficiency of the Brazilian Municipalities: Correcting Nonparametric Frontier Measurements for Outliers

2005

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In this paper we estimate the DEA technical efficiency for 4796 Brazilian municipalities, by applying a recently proposed “Jackstrap” method, which combines Bootstrap and Jackknife resampling techniques, to reduce the effect of outliers and possible errors in the data set. We perform calculations to identify and eliminate high leverage municipalities, using different variants of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), as well as Free Disposal Hull (FDH). Corroborating previous results, efficiency results for the Brazilian municipalities show a clear relationship between the size of the municipality and its efficiency scores. Indeed, under both DEA variants, smaller cities tend to be less efficient than larger ones hence indicating that the quality of the frontier adjustment improves significantly as the size of the municipality increases. We present arguments that may explain to some extent these findings, such as economies of scale and the excess spending due to revenue from royalties. However, such effects require further, more careful examination. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005data envelopment analysis, outlier detection, leverage,

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“…Now, the World Bank is under tremendous political pressure from the United States and other shareholding governments to expand loan and grant assistance for education. This is only good news if external assistance supports good, homegrown policies and processes that will improve educational outcomes (Bredie & Beeharry, 1998;Schwartz & Sack, 1990Wolff, Schiefelbein, & Valenzuela, 1994).…”

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Paying for Education: How the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Influence Education in Developing Countries

Alexander¹

2001

Peabody Journal of Education

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Improving the quality of primary education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cited by 34 publications

References 32 publications

The Effects of Inservice Education on Teachers’ Knowledge of Junior Secondary School Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction in Delta State, Nigeria

The Effects of Inservice Education on Teachers’ Knowledge of Junior Secondary School Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction in Delta State, Nigeria

Technical Efficiency of the Brazilian Municipalities: Correcting Nonparametric Frontier Measurements for Outliers

Paying for Education: How the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Influence Education in Developing Countries

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