Evaluation of the Support to Schools Project in Czech Republic
The purpose of this report is to evaluate an intervention ``Support to schools in forms of simplifed reporting projects - Template for Nursery schools and Primary schools") financed by the European Social Fund in Czech Republic, during the Programming period 2014-2020. This is a join work of the JRC-CRIE (Center for research on Impact Evaluation) and one of the Czech managing authorities, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
In order to understand the short run effects of the call, the outcomes of participating schools are compared to the outcomes of non-participating schools, using propensity score matching as a way to solve the selection bias arising from the fact that schools self-select themselves, as participation to the call is voluntary. Analysis are based on a combination of administrative data coming from schools' registries, and survey data collected on a relevant sample of schools. The main outcomes of interested are performances in mathematics and language test scores and some indicators capturing the level of school's climate (measuring features like inclusiveness, discrimination, etc...). Preliminary results do not show any consistent pattern of effects on test scores. Some mixed evidence is found for the school climate measures, where only some dimensions seem to be affected by the program, but not in a clear and consistent pattern. Explanation for these results could be that very short time passed between the intervention and the date when the outcomes were measured, which can be problematic if one expects academic achievement and school climate to slowly change in response to such interventions. Also, the academic achievement of students or school climate were not the direct targets of the activities of this set of actions.
AGOSTI Francesca;
DUSATKO Jan;
MERONI Elena Claudia;
VROBEL Jakub;
2021-10-19
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC125324
978-92-76-42311-9 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30860 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30860-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC125324,
10.2760/293062 (online),
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