Compensatory Education for Disadvantaged Mexican Students: An Impact Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

The authors use propensity score matching to evaluate the effectiveness of CONAFE, a compensatory education program in Mexico, in improving student test scores and lowering repetition and failure rates. They find that CONAFE is most effective in improving primary school math learning and secondary school Spanish learning. Secondary education delivered by way of television to remote communities and bilingual education for indigenous students are both shown to improve student achievement. CONAFE also lowers primary school repetition and failure rates. The authors conclude that this compensatory education program can effectively improve short-term learning results for disadvantaged students, but that improvement varies by the subject of instruction and the demographics of students taught.

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Main Authors:	Shapiro, Joseph, Trevino, Jorge Moreno
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2004-06
Subjects:	AGED, AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS, BASIC EDUCATION, BILINGUAL EDUCATION, CURRICULA, DISTANCE EDUCATION, EDUCATION INDICATORS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS, EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATORS, EMPLOYMENT, ETHNIC GROUPS, FAMILIES, FATHERS, INDIGENOUS CHILDREN, INDIGENOUS CULTURE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, INSTRUCTION, INTERVENTIONS, ISOLATION, KNOWLEDGE LEVEL, LEARNING, LEARNING OUTCOMES, LECTURES, LET, LITERACY, MATH SKILLS, MATHEMATICS, MOTHER TONGUE, MOTHERS, PAPERS, PARENTS, POSITIVE IMPACT, PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRINCIPALS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY EDUCATION, REPETITION, REPETITION RATES, RURAL SCHOOLS, SCHOOL EDUCATION, SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE, SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, SCHOOL QUALITY, SCHOOL UNIFORMS, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SMALL SCHOOLS, SOCIAL SERVICES, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, STUDENT PERFORMANCE, TEACHER, TEACHER QUALITY, TEACHER TRAINING, TEACHERS, TEST SCORES, TEXTBOOKS, UNDERACHIEVEMENT, URBAN AREAS PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING, PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING METHOD, COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT, FAILURES, MATHEMATICS LEARNING METHOD, LANGUAGE LEARNING, INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OUTCOMES, DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/4991542/compensatory-education-disadvantaged-mexican-students-impact-evaluation-using-propensity-score-matching https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14176
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