The Effect of Private Management of Public Schools on Student Achievement in Bogotá, Colombia

During the last 15 years, the public school system in Bogotá, Colombia has maintained a concession system in which 25 schools are managed privately with exemptions to many of the rules required in the traditional schools -- This study uses the propensity score matching technique to examine whether students in the privately-managed schools have better scores on the Saber 11° examinations taken upon completion of secondary school -- The results for 251 schools indicates that students with comparable socioeconomic characteristics score considerably better on these tests in the privately-managed schools than in the traditional public schools -- Thus, there is evidence that the privately-managed public schools are a cost-effective alternative to the traditional public school

• Autores: López Sánchez, Ángela Rocío; Virgüez Clavijo, Andrés Felipe; Sarmiento Espinel, Jaime Andrés; Silva Arias, Adriana Carolina
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad EAFIT
• Repositorio: Repositorio EAFIT
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/9165
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10784/9165
• Palabra clave: 21; I22; I28; Pruebas del Saber; Pruebas Saber 11; Logros académicos; EVALUACIÓN EDUCATIVA; ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN MEDIA; ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN MEDIA - SITUACIÓN SOCIOECONÓMICA; ESCUELAS PRIVADAS; ESCUELAS PÚBLICAS; CALIDAD DE LA EDUCACIÓN; Educational evaluation; High school students - socio-economic; High school students; Private schools; Public schools
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