Direct vs indirect management training: Experimental evidence from schools in Mexico

Mauricio Romero, Juan Bedoya, Monica Yanez-Pagans (), Marcela Silveyra and Rafael De Hoyos

Journal of Development Economics, 2022, vol. 154, issue C

Abstract: We use a large-scale randomized experiment (across 1,198 public primary schools in Mexico) to study the impact of providing schools directly with high-quality managerial training by professional trainers vis-à-vis through a cascade-style “train the trainer” model. The training focused on improving principals’ capacities to collect and use data to monitor students’ basic numeracy and literacy skills and to provide feedback to teachers on their instruction and pedagogical practices. After two years, the direct training improved schools’ managerial capacity by 0.13σ (p-value 0.018) (relative to “train the trainer” schools), but had no meaningful impact on student test scores (we can rule out an effect greater than 0.08σ at the 95% level).

Keywords: School management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I20 I25 M10 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102779

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