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The effectiveness of school-based decision making in improving educational outcomes: a systematic review

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  • Roy Carr-Hill
  • Caine Rolleston
  • Rebecca Schendel
  • Hugh Waddington

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The rhetoric around decentralisation suggests school-based management improves education outcomes. Existing reviews on school-based decision-making have tended to focus on proximal outcomes and offer very little information about why school-based decision-making has positive or negative effects in different circumstances. The authors systematically searched for and synthesised evidence from 35 quantitative and qualitative studies evaluating 17 individual interventions on the effectiveness of school-based decision-making on educational outcomes. Devolving decision-making to the level of the school appears to have a somewhat beneficial effect on dropout, repetition and teacher attendance. Effects on test-scores are more robust, being positive in aggregate and for middle-income countries specifically. On the other hand, school-based decision-making reforms appear to be less effective in communities with generally low levels of education, where parents have low status relative to school personnel. The authors conclude that school-based decision-making reforms are less likely to be successful in highly disadvantaged communities.

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  • Roy Carr-Hill & Caine Rolleston & Rebecca Schendel & Hugh Waddington, 2018. "The effectiveness of school-based decision making in improving educational outcomes: a systematic review," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 61-94, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevef:v:10:y:2018:i:1:p:61-94
    DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2018.1440250
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    1. Sawada, Yasuyuki & Aida, Takeshi & Griffen, Andrew S. & Kozuka, Eiji & Noguchi, Haruko & Todo, Yasuyuki, 2022. "Democratic institutions and social capital: Experimental evidence on school-based management from a developing country," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 198(C), pages 267-279.
    2. Panchali Guha, 2022. "The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(4), pages 2090-2108, November.
    3. Panchali Guha, 2023. "School committee composition: Exploring the role of parental and female representation in India," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 41(3), May.
    4. Maruyama, Takao & Kageyama, Akiko & Kunieda, Nobuhiro, 2022. "Region-wide initiative to expand girls’ enrollment in primary education in Niger: A case of collective impact for educational development," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    5. Parra, Juan David, 2022. "Decentralisation and school-based management in Colombia: An exploration (using systems thinking) of the Full‐Day Schooling programme," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).

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