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Learning Levels And Gaps In Pakistan / Das, Jishnu
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Das, Jishnu
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adult Literacy.
- Adult Literacy Rate.
- Children.
- Curriculum.
- Education.
- Education for All.
- Effective Schools and Teachers.
- Enrollment.
- Formal Schooling.
- Gender.
- Gender and Education.
- Girls.
- Groups.
- Human Development.
- Knowledge.
- Learning.
- Literacy.
- Net Enrollment.
- Numeracy.
- Participation.
- Primary Education.
- Primary School.
- Primary School Completion.
- Private Schools.
- Public Schools.
- Secondary Education.
- Student Achievement.
- Tertiary Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Adult Literacy.
- Adult Literacy Rate.
- Children.
- Curriculum.
- Education.
- Education for All.
- Effective Schools and Teachers.
- Enrollment.
- Formal Schooling.
- Gender.
- Gender and Education.
- Girls.
- Groups.
- Human Development.
- Knowledge.
- Learning.
- Literacy.
- Net Enrollment.
- Numeracy.
- Participation.
- Primary Education.
- Primary School.
- Primary School Completion.
- Private Schools.
- Public Schools.
- Secondary Education.
- Student Achievement.
- Tertiary Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2006
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The authors report on a survey of primary public and private schools in rural Pakistan with a focus on student achievement as measured through test scores. Absolute learning is low compared with curricular standards and international norms. Tested at the end of the third grade, a bare majority had mastered the K-I mathematics curriculum and 31 percent could correctly form a sentence with the word "school" in the vernacular (Urdu). As in high-income countries, bivariate comparisons show that higher learning is associated with household wealth and parental literacy. In sharp contrast to high-income countries, these gaps decrease dramatically in a multivariate regression once differences between children in the same school are looked at. Consequently, the largest gaps are between schools. The gap in English test scores between government and private schools, for instance, is 12 times the gap between children from rich and poor families. To contextualize these results within a broader South Asian context, the authors use data from public schools in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Levels of learning and the structure of the educational gaps are similar in the two samples. As in Pakistan, absolute learning is low and the largest gaps are between schools: the gap between good and bad government schools, for instance, is 5 times the gap between children with literate and illiterate mothers.
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