Professional Development and Incentives for Teacher Performance in Schools in Mexico

Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT;    ACHIEVEMENT SCORES;    ACHIEVEMENT TESTS;    AGE GROUP;    BASIC EDUCATION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-3236
RP-ID  :  WPS3236

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The quality of education is adetermining factor in competitiveness. In order to globallycompete, Mexico would have to raise its standards beyond itscurrent low achievement. Several innovations at federal andstate levels have been developed to raise the quality ofbasic education. One example is Carrera Magisterial (CM),which is a professional development program that was createdas part of the National Agreement for the Modernization ofBasic Education in 1992. This program is aimed at raisingthe quality of basic education through teachers'professional training, new learning presence in schools, andimproving working and salary conditions this reportevaluates the impact of CM. She shows several importantresults. First, teacher's enrollment in the CM programhas a positive impact on learning achievement. Second,family characteristics are important in explainingstudents' achievement. Third, investment in primaryschool teachers is most effective when targeted towardincreasing teachers' practical experience anddeveloping content-specific knowledge. And fourth, studentsin schools with a high degree of supervision on the part ofthe school principal achieve better scores.