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

This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and subsequently improving learning outcomes, in public primary schools in Indonesia. All study schools were randomly allocated to either a c...

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Main Authors:	Pradhan, Menno, Suryadarma, Daniel, Beatty, Amanda, Wong, Maisy, Alishjabana, Armida, Gaduh, Arya, Artha, Rima Prama
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT ACTIVE LEARNING ADEQUATE NUMBER OF TEACHERS BASIC EDUCATION CLASS ACTIVITIES CLASSROOM CLASSROOM TEACHING CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE SKILLS COHORT OF STUDENTS COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS COMMUNITY TEACHERS COMPANION COST OF TRAINING CURRICULA DISTRICT EDUCATION DROPOUT RATE DROPOUT RATES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENTS EDUCATION OFFICES EDUCATION OFFICIALS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION PROJECTS EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION STRATEGY EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL ENROLLMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL QUALITY EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT FIGURES ENROLLMENT RATES EXAM EXPENDITURES EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES GENDER GENERAL AWARENESS GIRLS GRADING GROSS ENROLLMENT HEAD TEACHERS HEADMASTERS HOMEWORK HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEXES INTERVENTIONS JOB SATISFACTION LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING COMMUNITIES LEARNING OUTCOMES LEAVING EXAM SCORES LITERACY LITERATURE NATIONAL EDUCATION NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS OVERSUPPLY OF TEACHERS PAPERS PARENT ASSOCIATIONS PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PARENTAL SUPPORT POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING REPETITION REPETITION RATE REPETITION RATES REPORT CARDS RURAL AREAS RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL BUILDINGS SCHOOL COMMITTEE SCHOOL COMMITTEES SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL EXPENDITURE SCHOOL FACILITIES SCHOOL FUNDING SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES SCHOOL POLICIES SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL YEAR SCIENCE STUDY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STAFF SALARIES STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT POPULATION STUDENT SCORES TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER EMPLOYMENT TEACHER EVALUATIONS TEACHER MANAGEMENT TEACHER MOTIVATION TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING ACTIVITY TEST SCORES TRAINEES TRAINING MATERIALS VILLAGE EDUCATION VILLAGE LEVEL VILLAGE LEVELS VISITS TO SCHOOLS WORKERS
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110913123202 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3559

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Summary:	This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and subsequently improving learning outcomes, in public primary schools in Indonesia. All study schools were randomly allocated to either a control group receiving no intervention, or to treatment groups receiving a grant plus one or a combination of three interventions: training for school committee members, a democratic election of school committee members, or facilitated collaboration between the school committee and the village council, also called linkage. Nearly two years after implementation, the study finds that measures to reinforce existing school committee structures, the grant and training interventions, demonstrate limited or no effects; while measures that foster outside ties between the school committee and other parties, linkage and election, lead to greater engagement by education stakeholders and in turn to learning. Test scores improve in Indonesian by 0.17 standard deviations for linkage and 0.22 standard deviations for linkage+election. The election intervention alone leads to changes in time household members accompany children studying per week, but this does not lead to learning. Linkage is the most cost effective intervention, causing a 0.13 change in standard deviation in Indonesian test scores for each 100 dollars (US) spent.

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

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