Compensatory Education for Disadvantaged Mexican Students: An Impact Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

The authors use propensity score matching to evaluate the effectiveness of CONAFE, a compensatory education program in Mexico, in improving student test scores and lowering repetition and failure rates. They find that CONAFE is most effective in im...

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Main Authors:	Shapiro, Joseph, Trevino, Jorge Moreno
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	AGED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS BASIC EDUCATION BILINGUAL EDUCATION CURRICULA DISTANCE EDUCATION EDUCATION INDICATORS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATORS EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC GROUPS FAMILIES FATHERS INDIGENOUS CHILDREN INDIGENOUS CULTURE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INSTRUCTION INTERVENTIONS ISOLATION KNOWLEDGE LEVEL LEARNING LEARNING OUTCOMES LECTURES LET LITERACY MATH SKILLS MATHEMATICS MOTHER TONGUE MOTHERS PAPERS PARENTS POSITIVE IMPACT PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRINCIPALS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT QUALITY EDUCATION REPETITION REPETITION RATES RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL UNIFORMS SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SMALL SCHOOLS SOCIAL SERVICES STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHER TEACHER QUALITY TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEST SCORES TEXTBOOKS UNDERACHIEVEMENT URBAN AREAS PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING METHOD COMPENSATORY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT FAILURES MATHEMATICS LEARNING METHOD LANGUAGE LEARNING INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OUTCOMES DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/4991542/compensatory-education-disadvantaged-mexican-students-impact-evaluation-using-propensity-score-matching http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14176

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Summary:	The authors use propensity score matching to evaluate the effectiveness of CONAFE, a compensatory education program in Mexico, in improving student test scores and lowering repetition and failure rates. They find that CONAFE is most effective in improving primary school math learning and secondary school Spanish learning. Secondary education delivered by way of television to remote communities and bilingual education for indigenous students are both shown to improve student achievement. CONAFE also lowers primary school repetition and failure rates. The authors conclude that this compensatory education program can effectively improve short-term learning results for disadvantaged students, but that improvement varies by the subject of instruction and the demographics of students taught.

Compensatory Education for Disadvantaged Mexican Students: An Impact Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

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