Benchmarking Public Policy : Methodological Insights from Measurement of School Based Management

This working paper presents a benchmarking analysis of School Based Management (SBM) using empirical data from the Philippines. School based management is widely used as a policy tool in many countries that seek to improve the quality of service delivery through decentralization. School based management typically takes many years to have an impact on educational outcomes, but policy makers need to know sooner how well the policy is being implemented. The paper extends the well-known Rasch methodology from the literature on student achievement, including the Programme for International Student Assessment, to the measurement of the implementation of school based management by computing a Rasch measure of the implementation of school based management. To test whether the resulting benchmarked measure is plausible and has practical policy value, the measure is tested for correlations with standardized measures of personality and political skills of school principals, developed in the psychology and political science literatures. The paper will be useful for readers interested in studying school based management as well as those interested more generally in the methodology of benchmarking implementation of public policy where the ultimate results are subject to long implementation periods. The methodology presented in this paper can be applied to enhance the rigor of the ongoing Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) exercise to benchmark educational policies in various domains. That exercise is set to become one of the flagship policy analytical tools being developed by the World Bank and partner agencies.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Parandekar, Suhas D.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014-06
Subjects:	ABILITY OF STUDENTS, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, ACADEMIC OUTCOMES, ACHIEVEMENTS, APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, ARITHMETIC, ATTENTION, AVERAGE SCORE, BASIC EDUCATION, CALL, COLLEGE STUDENTS, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, COUNSELORS, CREATIVITY, CURIOSITY, CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES, CURRICULUM, DECENTRALIZATION, DECISION MAKING, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, EDUCATION OUTCOMES, EDUCATION POLICY, EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, EDUCATIONAL POLICY, EDUCATIONAL REFORM, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, EMPATHY, ENROLLMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, FUTURE RESEARCH, GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION, GRADING, HEAD TEACHER, HIGH SCHOOLS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN SCIENCES, IMAGINATION, INTERVENTIONS, INTUITION, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, LEARNING PRACTICES, LEARNING STYLES, LITERATURE, MENTAL ABILITY, MODELING, MOTIVATION, NUMBER OF TEACHERS, OPEN ACCESS, PAPERS, PARENT PARTICIPATION, PARENTAL PARTICIPATION, PEDAGOGY, PERCEPTION, PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS, PERSONALITY TRAITS, PERSONALITY TYPES, PLAYING, PROFICIENCY, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, QUALIFIED TEACHERS, READERS, REMEDIAL CLASSES, REPETITION, RESEARCH AGENDA, RESEARCHERS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL AUTONOMY, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SCHOOL COMMUNITY, SCHOOL CONTEXTS, SCHOOL COUNCIL, SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS, SCHOOL FEEDING, SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS, SCHOOL HEAD, SCHOOL HEADS, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, SCHOOL LEVEL, SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, SCHOOL QUALITY, SCHOOL RECORDS, SCHOOL SIZE, SCHOOL SURVEY, SCHOOL YEARS, SCHOOLS, SHOW HOW, SKILLED INDIVIDUALS, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPORTS, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, STUDENT ASSESSMENT, STUDENT LEARNING, STUDENT OUTCOMES, STUDENT PERFORMANCE, STUDENT TESTING, STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, TEACHER, TEACHER PERFORMANCE, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TEST SCORES, THINKING,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19705689/benchmarking-public-policy-methodological-insights-measurement-school-based-management-benchmarking-public-policy-methodological-insights-measurement-school-based-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18823
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