Assessing European primary school performance through a conditional nonparametric model

Abstract

This paper uses a fully nonparametric framework to assess the efficiency of primary schools using data about schools in 16 European countries participating in PIRLS 2011. This study represents an original enterprise since most of the empirical research in the field is restricted to evaluations at regional or national level and focused on secondary education. For our purpose, we adapt the metafrontier framework to compare and decompose the technical efficiency of primary schools operating in heterogeneous contexts, which in our case is represented by different educational systems or countries. Likewise, we use an extension of the conditional nonparametric robust approach to test the potential influence of a mixed set of environmental school factors and variables representing cultural values of each country. Our results indicate that the intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive skills like responsibility or perseverance are significantly related to school efficiency, whereas most school factors do not seem to have a significant influence on school performance.

Medida de eficiencia técnica en la educación media de América Latina : pruebas PISA.

“…Este hallazgo puede tener un efecto relevante al compararlo con los obtenidos por Cordero, et al (2017), en este trabajo realizado para paises de la union europea, se identificó una menor relevancia del efecto del pais sobre el logro academico que la concerniente a las propias escuelas. En este sentido, se logra identificar una diferencia entre los dos grupos de paises, latino americanos y europeos.…”

“…Son cantidades de factores disponibles que posee o controla una empresa, siendo de naturaleza diversa y comprendiendo factores físicos, tecnológicos, humanos y organizativos (Cuervo, Á., 1993). 1993), el Análisis Envolvente de Datos, DEA (Altamirano & Peniche, 2014) y modelos Free Disposal Hull, FDH 6 (Cordero, Santín, & Simancas, 2017;De Witte & Kortelainen, 2013;Haelermans & De Witte, 2012).…”

“…Respecto a estudios diferenciales en eficiencia a nivel de país cabe resaltar el realizado porCordero, et al (2017), quienes realizaron un estudio comparativo entre 16 países de la Unión Europea, mediante un modelo robusto de orden-m con un enfoque de metafrontera en una muestra de 2.398 escuelas obtenida de las pruebas PIRLS 2011. En su estudio, los autores tomaron como producto los resultados en lectura y como insumos las variables de información de antecedentes sobre el estatus socioeconómico de los estudiantes, el ambiente escolar y las prácticas de instrucción.…”

Family Environment Variables as Predictors of School Absenteeism Severity at Multiple Levels: Ensemble and Classification and Regression Tree Analysis

“…In addition, classification and regression tree analysis (CART) is a nonparametric method that identifies comprehensive subgroups based on interactions among multiple risk or predictor variables (Lemon et al, 2003). Nonparametric methods are increasingly used for academic variables denoted by categorical levels (e.g., Cordero et al, 2017; Lahti et al, 2019). Various levels of school absenteeism were examined, with a general expectation that risk factors at higher levels of absenteeism would be more restricted than risk factors at lower levels of absenteeism.…”

Efficiency in the transformation of schooling into competences: A cross‐country analysis using PIAAC data

“…In a similar vein, Giménez, Thieme, Prior, and Tortosa-Ausina (2017) examine student progress in terms of competences between 2003 and 2009, as they assess the extent to which their progress can be accounted for by the availability of better resources and/or the enhanced efficiency of their respective education systems. Other databases that have been used to evaluate the efficiency of education systems in an international setting include the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) -see Clements (2002) and Giménez, Prior, and Thieme (2007); and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) -see Cordero, Santín, and Simancas (2017).…”