Community Participation and Teacher Accountability : Improving Learning Outcomes in Remote Areas of Indonesia
The Government of Indonesia has introduced many reforms to improve the quality of education but learning outcomes have continued to lag. Improving the quality of education has been especially challenging in rural and remote areas. Starting in 2016,...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/552081590478574722/Community-Participation-and-Teacher-Accountability-Improving-Learning-Outcomes-in-Remote-Areas-of-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33807 |
| Summary: | The Government of Indonesia has
introduced many reforms to improve the quality of education
but learning outcomes have continued to lag. Improving the
quality of education has been especially challenging in
rural and remote areas. Starting in 2016, the World Bank
supported the Government of Indonesia’s efforts to promote
social accountability to improve teacher performance in
remote areas through KIAT Guru. This report provides
qualitative insights on how an innovative social
accountability model resulted in significant improvements in
learning outcomes. The study finds social accountability is
more effective when it is linked with a strong and objective
enforcement mechanism. KIAT Guru combined a social
accountability mechanism (SAM) with a pay-for-performance
mechanism (PPM) to improve teacher presence, teacher service
performance, and student learning outcomes in remote
schools. This report focuses on the results of the
qualitative study of the nine case study schools. The nine
schools were in three of the five pilot districts: Ketapang,
Landak, and Manggarai Barat. The qualitative data collected
through the case studies of the nine schools complements the
quantitative measurements of the impact of KIAT Guru. The
data collected by the qualitative researchers indicate that
implementation of the KIAT Guru project had a strong and
pervasive impact on the nine schools included in the study.
The researchers concluded that in all nine locations, the
quality of teaching and school-community relations improved
over the course of the project. The researchers concluded
that the positive outcomes of KIAT Guru outweighed the
challenges that surfaced in the communities they studied.
The results from the qualitative study of KIAT Guru indicate
that social accountability linked to pay based on teacher
presence (SAM+Cam) shows the greatest potential for
leveraging change in teacher behavior. |
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