Publication: Colombia: Can a Management and Information System Improve Education Quality?
Date
2019-02-28
ISSN
Published
2019-02-28
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The Results in Education for All
Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded the
development of a Management & Information System to
monitor the quality of the education system in Colombia.
This system builds on existing monitoring tools, which focus
on outcome measures such as test scores but do not capture
intermediate quality indicators that can shed light on how
learning outcomes are achieved. The overarching purpose of
this system is to foster improvement in the education system
by informing the decision-making and everyday activities of
education practitioners and policymakers. This can be
achieved by: (i) gathering detailed and relevant information
about activities within schools and (ii) managing the
information efficiently and making it accessible to users to
enable them to analyze, understand, and provide
evidence-based recommendations on how to improve education
quality. This monitoring system is not intended to be an
accountability mechanism for schools but rather a management
tool for stakeholders to understand the strengths and
weaknesses of the education system and take appropriate action.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2019. Colombia: Can a Management and Information System Improve Education Quality?. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33740 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”