Indonesia : Can Performance-Based School Grants Improve Learning?
The results in education for all children (REACH) trust fund at the World Bank funded an evaluation that assessed the early impact of a performance-based school grants program on student learning in Indonesia. This evaluation focused on two separat...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121371521520039305/Indonesia-Can-Performance-Based-School-Grants-Improve-Learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33584 |
| Summary: | The results in education for all
children (REACH) trust fund at the World Bank funded an
evaluation that assessed the early impact of a
performance-based school grants program on student learning
in Indonesia. This evaluation focused on two separate
effects in the first two years of the new program: the
effect of announcing the performance-based incentive to
schools, and the effect of receiving the bonus for top
performing schools. Announcing the performance incentive had
different impacts on primary and junior secondary schools.
Student test scores improved in all junior secondary
schools, with the largest gains being made in schools that
were already the highest performing. The effect of the
program on learning was largely due to the change in
incentives created by announcing the performance-based
grants, rather than by the additional grant funding itself.
Future programs can be improved by using other measures of
school performance in addition to test scores, considering
alternative designs of the formula to determine grant
allocations, and allowing schools more flexibility in
experimenting with ways to improve learning. |
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