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Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania / Danila Serra
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Serra, Danila
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accountability.
- Communities & Human Settlements.
- Education.
- Education For All.
- Governance.
- Lab Experiment.
- Primary Education.
- Secondary Education.
- Teaching and Learning.
- Tertiary Education.
- Albania.
- Local Subjects:
- Accountability.
- Communities & Human Settlements.
- Education.
- Education For All.
- Governance.
- Lab Experiment.
- Primary Education.
- Secondary Education.
- Teaching and Learning.
- Tertiary Education.
- Albania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (61 pages)
- Other Title:
- Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents' Demand for Accountability
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2011
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education outcomes, particularly in developing and transition countries where institutional deficiencies can distort incentives. This paper investigates the relationship between an expanded set of school inputs, including proxies for the functionality of "top-down" and "bottom-up" accountability systems, and education outputs in Albanian primary schools. The authors use data generated by an original survey of 180 nationally representative schools. The analysis shows a strong negative correlation between measures of top-down accountability and students' rates of grade repetition and failure in final examinations, and a strong positive correlation between measures of top-down accountability and students' excellence in math. Bottom-up accountability measures are correlated to various education outputs, although they tend lose statistical significance once parent characteristics, school resources and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An in-depth analysis of participatory accountability within the schools focuses on parents' willingness to hold teachers to account. Here, the survey data are combined with data from lab-type experiments conducted with parents and teachers in the schools. In general, the survey data highlight problems of limited parental involvement and lack of information about participatory accountability structures. The experiments indicate that the lack of parental participation in the school accountability system is owing to information constraints and weak institutions that allow parent class representatives to be appointed by teachers rather than elected by parents.
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