Direct vs indirect management training: Experimental evidence from schools in Mexico

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Romero, Mauricio; Bedoya, Juan; Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Silveyra, Marcela; de Hoyos, Rafael
• 署名单位: Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Universidad de Cantabria; The World Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102779
• 发表日期: 2022
• 关键词: School management

摘要

We use a large-scale randomized experiment (across 1,198 public primary schools in Mexico) to study the impact of providing schools directly with high-quality managerial training by professional trainers vis-a-vis through a cascade-style train the trainer model. The training focused on improving principals' capacities to collect and use data to monitor students' basic numeracy and literacy skills and to provide feedback to teachers on their instruction and pedagogical practices. After two years, the direct training improved schools' managerial capacity by 0.13 sigma (p-value 0.018) (relative to train the trainer schools), but had no meaningful impact on student test scores (we can rule out an effect greater than 0.086 sigma at the 95% level).