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Schooling progress, learning reversal: Indonesia’s learning profiles between 2000 and 2014

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  • Beatty, Amanda
  • Berkhout, Emilie
  • Bima, Luhur
  • Pradhan, Menno
  • Suryadarma, Daniel

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We examine the relationship between schooling completed and mathematics learning from 2000 to 2014 by developing learning profiles for Indonesia. Using nearly-nationally representative survey data, we find a large gap between students’ ability and standards set by the national curriculum. Learning declined over 14 years, a loss of a fourth of a standard deviation. To put this loss in context, the average child in grade 7 in 2014 achieved the same numeracy mastery as the average child in grade 4 in 2000. The reduction in learning was widespread, affecting all subgroups. Junior and senior secondary enrollment increased over this timeframe, but this decline was not due to changes in student composition.

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  • Beatty, Amanda & Berkhout, Emilie & Bima, Luhur & Pradhan, Menno & Suryadarma, Daniel, 2021. "Schooling progress, learning reversal: Indonesia’s learning profiles between 2000 and 2014," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:injoed:v:85:y:2021:i:c:s0738059321000894
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102436
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