03843nam a22004812u 4500 50035 BD-RjUL 20211209075440.0 160823s1995 xxu ||| b ||| ||eng d 9780821334799 0821334794 (BD-RjUL)50155 ericd eng ericd MvI eng 23 373.1724 JIP 1995 mfm Jimenez, Emmanuel. 149953 Public and Private Secondary Education in Developing Countries : A Comparative Study. World Bank Discussion Papers No. 309 / Emmanuel Jimenez and Marlaine E. Lockheed. [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995. 139 p. : ill. ; 35 cm. Availability: The World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. ericd ERIC Note: Other contributors were Donald Cox, Eduardo Luna, Vicente Paqueo, M. L. de Vera, and Nongnuch Wattanawaha. ericd This monograph summarizes the results of a World Bank research project that compared private and public secondary school costs and achievement in five developing countries--Columbia, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand. All the case studies address the question: Would a high school student, selected at random from the general student population, perform better in a public or private school? In the absence of experimental data, the studies compare students' performance on standardized tests in a cross-section of public and private schools. Student background, motivation, innate ability, and prior performance are controlled through the use of various statistical techniques. The report also compares the costs of public and private schools. The principal findings include: (1) although students in private schools come from more privileged families than those in public schools, on average, there is a significant overlap between the two groups; (2) with student background and selection bias held constant, students in private schools out-perform students in public schools on a variety of achievement tests; (3) unit costs of private schools are lower than those of public schools; and (4) private schools are organized for greater school-level decision making and emphasis on enhancing student achievement; this seems to affect the mix of inputs that private versus public schools choose. Implications for policy include: (1) over-restrictive regulations on private schools may be suppressing an efficient way to provide education; (2) in some cases, governments could encourage greater private sector participation in education; and (3) public schools could emulate at least some of the teaching and administrative practices of their private counterparts. Contains numerous tables throughout the document and 66 references. (EH) Academic Achievement. ericd 149518 Comparative Education. ericd 149954 Cross Cultural Studies. ericd 149955 Developing Nations. ericd 132755 Development. ericd 149956 Foreign Countries. ericd 149957 Global Education. ericd 149958 Private Schools. ericd 149959 Public Schools. ericd 149960 Secondary Education. ericd 149961 Social Science Research. ericd 149962 Colombia Dominican Republic Philippines Tanzania Thailand Information Analyses. ericd 149970 Reports, Research. ericd 149971 Lockheed, Marlaine E., author. 149965 World Bank, Washington, DC. 149966 http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED398122 ddc BK 50035 50035 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC RUCL RUCL Stack 1996-08-18 MIDA 250.00 0 373.1724 JIP 1995 2016-08-23 00:00:00 C-2 2016-08-23 BK