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Scores, Camera, Action: Social Accountability and Teacher Incentives in Remote Areas

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dc.contributor.authorGaduh, Arya
dc.contributor.authorPradhan, Menno
dc.contributor.authorPriebe, Jan
dc.contributor.authorSusanti, Dewi
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-12T13:28:59Z
dc.date.available2021-08-12T13:28:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.description.abstractRemote schools in developing countries are costly to supervise, resulting in low teacher accountability and poor education outcomes. This paper reports the results of a randomized evaluation of three treatments that introduced teacher incentives based on community monitoring of teacher effort against locally agreed standards. The Social Accountability Mechanism (SAM) treatment facilitated a joint commitment between schools and community members to improve learning. Teacher performance was rated against it, discussed in monthly public meetings and passed on to authorities. The second and third treatments combined SAM with a performance pay mechanism that would penalize eligible teachers’ remote area allowance for poor performance. In the SAM+Camera (SAM+Cam) treatment, the cut was based on absence as recorded by a tamper-proof camera; while in the SAM+Score treatment, it was based on the overall rating. After one year, the findings indicate improvements in learning outcomes across all treatments; however, the strongest impact of 0.20 standard deviation is observed for SAM+Cam. The evaluation also finds a small positive impact on the effort of affected teachers for SAM+Cam and SAM, and significant positive improvements on parental educational investments in all treatments. For SAM and SAM+Cam, additional data were collected in the second year (one year after project facilitators left). The findings show that SAM+Cam’s impacts on learning outcomes and parental investments—but not teacher effort —persisted into the second year.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/947161628601673722/Scores-Camera-Action-Social-Accountability-and-Teacher-Incentives-in-Remote-Areas
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9748
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/36112
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9748
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectSOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING
dc.subjectTEACHER INCENTIVES
dc.subjectTEACHER PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectPERFORMANCE PAY
dc.subjectREMOTE-AREA POLICY
dc.titleScores, Camera, Actionen
dc.title.subtitleSocial Accountability and Teacher Incentives in Remote Areasen
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dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleScores, Camera, Action: Social Accountability and Teacher Incentives in Remote Areas
okr.date.disclosure2021-08-10
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T11:15:49.560812Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/947161628601673722/Scores-Camera-Action-Social-Accountability-and-Teacher-Incentives-in-Remote-Areas
okr.guid947161628601673722
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9748
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b088896a65_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum33332333
okr.identifier.reportWPS9748
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/947161628601673722/pdf/Scores-Camera-Action-Social-Accountability-and-Teacher-Incentives-in-Remote-Areas.pdfen
okr.topicPublic Sector Development::Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform
okr.topicEducation::Educational Institutions & Facilities
okr.topicEducation::Effective Schools and Teachers
okr.topicSocial Development::Social Accountability
okr.unitSocial Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice
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