The impact of structured teaching methods on the quality of education in Brazil

Resumo

This paper estimates the impact of the use of structured methods on the quality of education for students in primary public school in Brazil. Structured methods encompass a range of pedagogical and managerial instruments applied in the educational system. In recent years, several municipalities in the state of Sao Paulo have contracted out private educational providers to implement these structured methods in their schooling systems. Their pedagogical proposal involves structuring of curriculum content, development of teacher and student textbooks, and the training and supervision of teachers anti instructors. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that the 4th- and 8th-grade students in the municipalities with structured methods performed better in Portuguese and mathematics than did students in municipalities not exposed to these methods. We find no differences in passing rates. A robustness test supports the assumption that there is no unobserved municipal characteristics associated with proficiency changes over time that may affect the results. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2012

Instituição

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso restrito

DOI

10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.05.008

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23283

Temas

EconomiaEducação

Palavras-chave

Quality of educationStructured methodsBrazilEconomiaEducação - Controle de qualidadeEducação - BrasilMétodo de estudo