Teachers' Incentives and Professional Development in Schools in Mexico

Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACHIEVEMENT SCORES;    ACHIEVEMENT TESTS;    AGED;    BASIC EDUCATION;    CLASSROOM SIZE;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2777
RP-ID  :  WPS2777

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 a nation's competitiveness. Tocompete globally, Mexico needs to raise its educationstandards. Several innovations to raise the quality of basiceducation at the federal and state levels have beendeveloped: professional training of teachers, new"learning presence in schools," and improvement ofworking conditions and salaries of teachers. The authorexamines teachers' incentives and their impact onstudents' learning achievement. She shows that early intheir professional lives, teachers in basic public schoolsare better paid than in other comparable groups. She alsofinds that some incentives for teachers at the school levelimprove learning achievement. For instance, the enrollmentof teachers in the Carrera Magisterial program has apositive effect on students' learning achievement.Furthermore, teachers' training is most effective whentargeted toward increasing their practical experience anddeveloping content-specific knowledge.