Arbeitspapier
Teacher content knowledge in developing countries: Evidence from a math assessment in El Salvador
Education is one of the key resources in the fight against poverty. While substantial progress has been made in terms of school enrollment, evidence suggests that educational quality is still alarmingly low in many developing countries. Various explanations have been suggested, but one very obvious factor in the educational production function has received surprisingly little attention: the content knowledge of teachers. For this study, we administered an exam-type assessment to a representative sample of 224 primary school teachers in Morazán, El Salvador. The average teacher scored 47% correct answers on 50 questions covering the official math curriculum for second to sixth graders. Overall, our results point to an even more worrying situation than suggested by previous findings based on indirect measures of content-related teacher skills in several African countries.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 20-05
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Economic Development
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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teacher content knowledge
quality of education
primary education
El Salvador
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Brunetti, Aymo
Büchel, Konstantin
Jakob, Martina
Jann, Ben
Kühnhanss, Christoph
Steffen, Daniel
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Bern, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Bern
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Brunetti, Aymo
- Büchel, Konstantin
- Jakob, Martina
- Jann, Ben
- Kühnhanss, Christoph
- Steffen, Daniel
- University of Bern, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2020
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