The Effects of School-based Management in the Philippines : An Initial Assessment Using Administrative Data
This paper estimates the effect of school-based management on student performance in the Philippines using the administrative dataset of all public schools in 23 school districts over a 3-year period, 2003-2005. The authors test whether schools tha...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| 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_20100324150556 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3735 |
| Summary: | This paper estimates the effect of
school-based management on student performance in the
Philippines using the administrative dataset of all public
schools in 23 school districts over a 3-year period,
2003-2005. The authors test whether schools that received
early school-based management interventions (training in
school-based management and direct funding for school-based
reforms) attained higher average test scores than those that
did not receive such inputs. The analysis uses school-level
overall composite test scores (comprising all subject areas
tested) and test scores in three separate subject areas:
English, math, and science. Their preferred estimator,
difference-in-difference with propensity score matching,
shows that the average treatment effect of participation in
school-based management was higher by 1.5 percentage points
for overall composite scores, 1.2 percentage points for math
scores, 1.4 percentage points for English scores, and 1.8
percentage points for science scores. These results suggest
that the introduction of school-based management had a
statistically significant, albeit small, overall positive
effect on average school-level test scores in 23 school
districts in the Philippines. The paper provides a first
glimpse of the potential for school-based management in an
East Asian context based on available administrative data.
The authors suggest that the next order of research is to
answer policy-related questions regarding the reforms: what
aspects of the reform lead to desired results; are there
differential effects across subpopulations; and what are the
potential downsides to the reforms? The Philippines is
embarking on a nation-wide implementation of school-based
management and the authors recommend that mechanisms for
rigorous evaluations be advanced simultaneously. Such
evaluations should not only provide more accurate estimates
of the effectiveness of the reforms, but also help answer
policy-related questions regarding design and implementation
of those reforms in different socio-cultural contexts. |
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