Transcript Slide 1

Alberto Rodriguez
World Bank
Warsaw, Poland, November 2011
Education quality means that enough
learning takes place in schools
 Why should we care about learning
outcomes?
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◦ Because individual returns to education are linked to
learning, not just to years of education
◦ Because the overall economy benefits from quality
education
PASEC
MLA
AHELO
PIAAC
CLA
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School Readiness: Early Childhood Education
(Latin America’s experience)
Assessment as a tool for quality (Jordan’s
experience)
Service delivery and autonomy: Private
provision and public finance (The Netherlands
experience)
Education system structure: delaying tracking
(the Polish experience)
Teachers: the heart of learning
(benchmarking policies)
Country
Program(s)
Chile
Junta Nacional de Jardines Infantiles (JUNJI)
Fundación Educacional para el Desarrollo Integral del
Menor (INTEGRA)
Conozca a su Hijo (CASH)
Colombia
Hogares Comunitarios
Familias en Acción
Honduras
Atención Integral a la Niñez Comunitaria (AIN-C)
Proyecto Nutrición y Protección Social
Madres Guías
México
Oportunidades
Educación Inicial no Escolarizada
Perú
Proyecto de Atención Integral a Niños y Niñas
Menores de Seis Años de la Sierra Rural (PAIN)
Institutional Arrangements
Coordinated
interventions across
multiple sectors
Comprehensive
Child-Centered
MultiSectoral
Intervention Areas/Mechanisms
Specific Sector w/ inputs
from other sector
CrossSectoral
Sectoral
Multiple sectors, specific
programs for targeted or
universal populations
Institutional Arrangements
Specific Sector
Single-sector
interventions
Comprehensive regular
monitoring, some universal
services, with tailored
interventions
Latin America:
•Preschool education
Chile:
•JUNJI, Integra
Mexico:
•Educación Inicial, PASL
Peru:
•Vaso de leche
Sectoral
Chile:
•Programa de Alimentación
Escolar
Colombia:
•Familias en Acción
Ecuador:
•Bono de Desarrollo Humano
Jamaica:
•PATH
Honduras:
•PRAF
Mexico:
•Oportunidades
Nicaragua:
•Red de Protección Social,
Atención a Crisis
CrossSectoral
Comprehensive
Child-Centered
MultiSectoral
Bolivia:
•Kallpa Wawa, PIDI
Colombia:
•Instituto Colombiano
de Bienestar Familiar
Honduras:
•Madres Guías
Nicaragua:
•PAININ
Chile:
•Chile Crece Contigo
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Comprehensive policies help scale up
investments in ECD programs
◦ Multisectoral and inter-institutional coordination
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Core “building blocks” for a comprehensive
ECD policy:
◦ Defining an institutional anchor and achieving
inter-sectoral coordination
◦ Ensuring adequate funding
◦ Developing/strengthening systems to monitor
individual young children’s developmental paths
◦ Building on evidence of what works from rigorous
evaluations
◦ Ensuring coherence with related policies
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The results of the study came as a shock
About 75% of students in mathematics and
67% of students in science scored lower than
the international average
Jordan ranked 3rd from the bottom in both
subjects among the 20 participating
countries
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Expert committee established to investigate
causes of poor performance
Item-by-item examination of the test and
school curricula
Jordan re-administered the entire TIMSS
examination
Results identical to those obtained during the
first round of testing
However, the results served to inform efforts
to reform educational quality
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Establish benchmarks of 13-year-olds’ achievement
Identify strength and weakness in each subject
Compare performance of students
Inform teacher training
Analyze characteristics related to achievement
Target negative and positive influences
Jordan, TIMSS Science
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1999
2003
2007
Top 10 TIMSS Science Performance over Time
1999
2007 change
Jordan
450
482
32
Lithuania
488
519
31
Turkey
433
454
21
Tunisia
430
445
15
Iran
448
459
11
Slovenia
533
538
5
United States
515
520
5
Japan
550
554
4
Korea
549
553
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England
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542
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1917: ‘schools to the parents’
Segregation ended conflict
Freedom of education, religion, constitution
Today:
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Country unified
But schools retain independence
Ease of entry
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Private Education Provision and Public Finance:
The Case of the Netherlands, H.A. Patrinos
Ministry
Ministry
Municipality
Municipality
School Board
School Board
School
School
School
Targeted Funds for Low-Income & Minorities:
For minority student 1.9 times basic amount
For Dutch from low income background 1.25 times basic amount
School
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Trouw,
1997:
http://www.trouw.nl/onderwijs
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Education
Inspectorate
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http://www.onderwijsinspect
ie.nl
Primary
Secondary
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Centralization & School Choice
Risk-based Inspection
Equal Treatment
Autonomy of Dutch Schools
Expenditures per student
grade
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Old Structure
Zero class (primary schools or kindergartens)
Comprehensive primary schools
Exam
General
secondary
schools
Exam
Secondary
vocational
schools
Matura
Basic vocational schools
age
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New Structure
grade
Zero class (primary schools or kindergartens)
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Comprehensive primary schools
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Exam
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Comprehensive lower secondary schools
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Exam
Exam
Exam
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General
Profiled
Basic
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Secondary
secondary
general
vocational
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vocational
schools
secondary
schools
III
schools
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Matura
Matura
Matura
Matura
PISA and the reform cohorts
old system
new system
PISA 2006 cohort
PISA 2003 cohort
PISA 2000 cohort
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school years
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PISA
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510
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OECD
average
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PISA Mean Score
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2003
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Table 1: Top 10 Reading over Time, PISA
2000
2003
2006
Finland
549 Finland
543 Korea
Netherlands
537 Korea
534 Finland
Canada
535 Canada
528 Hong Kong
Hong Kong
532 Australia
525 Canada
Australia
528 Liechtenstein 525 New Zealand
Ireland
528 New Zealand 522 Ireland
New Zealand
526 Ireland
515 Australia
Japan
525 Sweden
514 Liechtenstein
United Kingdom 524 Netherlands
513 Poland
Korea
522 Hong Kong
510 Sweden
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547
536
527
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PISA - Reading
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We know from recent analysis that teacher
policies (training, selection, deployment,
compensation, promotion, and development)
are the key for a high performance system
But we know less about in what specific ways
these policies are effective
So the World Bank is launching a global
benchmarking effort on teacher policies:
SABER teachers.
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Teachers are the most important school-level
factor in student outcomes
Limited information and evidence exists as to what
are the most effective policies to attract, motivate,
and retain qualified teachers
SABER-Teachers intends to fill this gap by:
 collecting
 analyzing
 synthesizing, and
 disseminating comprehensive information on
teacher policies in primary and secondary
education across different systems
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First, the team identified 10 central teacher
policy areas, which guide the data collection
effort, and informed the data collection approach
To assess how well are education systems
succeeding in attracting, retaining, and
motivating effective teachers, we identified 8
teacher policy goals
To analyze interactions and complementarities
between the various teacher policy goals, and
alignment to broader education goals, we
identified 4 teacher policy profiles
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Requirements for entering and remaining in the
teaching profession
Initial teacher preparation
Recruitment and employment
Teacher workloads and autonomy
Professional development
Compensation: salary and non-salary benefits
Retirement rules and benefits
Monitoring and evaluation of teacher quality
Teacher representation and voice
School leadership
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Setting clear
expectations
for teachers
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Attracting
the best into
teaching
Motivating
teachers to
perform
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Effective
Teachers
Supporting
teachers to
improve
instruction
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Monitoring
teaching and
learning
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Leading
teachers with
strong
principals
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Preparing
teachers
with useful
training &
experience
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Matching
teachers’
skills with
students’
needs
 Grouped top-performing education systems into four
groups
 Analyzed their teacher policies in detail to identify
benchmarks for the 4 levels of development: Latent,
Emerging, Established, Advanced
 Used Groups A&B to identify Teacher Policy Profiles
Group A: Top
performers & rapid
improvers
 Hong Kong – China
 Canada
Finland
Belgium
South Korea
Group B: Top
performers
 Japan
Taipei (China)
Hungary
Singapore
 Netherlands
Group C: Rapid
improvers (longterm)
 Chile
Iran
Israel
Luxembourg
New Zealand
Group C: Rapid
improvers (shortterm)
Ghana
Armenia
Lebanon
Mexico
Indonesia
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Professional Autonomy: select the best into teaching,
prepare them exceptionally well, then give them
ample autonomy.
Shared Responsibility: built around the notion that
excellent teaching is the responsibility of the whole
profession, not individual teachers; put in place
mechanisms to foster collaboration and peer
accountability
Career Development: focus on building teacher
capacity throughout the career, from induction to
professional development, formative assessment, and
strong instructional leaders as school heads.
Performance Management: tight control over
teachers’ work, “leave nothing to chance.”
 Thank
you !
Alberto Rodriguez, Ph.D.
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Manager for Education
Europe and Central Asia Region
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The World Bank
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[email protected]