Arbeitspapier
The negative consequences of overambitious curricula in developing countries
Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we construct a simple, formal model, which portrays learning as the result of a match between student skill and instructional levels, rather than the standard (if implicit) assumption that all children learn the same from the same instruction. A simulation shows that two countries with exactly the same potential learning could have massively divergent learning outcomes, just because of a gap between curricular and actual pace - and the country which goes faster has much lower cumulative learning. We also show that our simple simulation model of curricular gaps can replicate existing experimental findings, many of which are otherwise puzzling. Paradoxically, learning could go faster if curricula and teachers were to slow down.
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4040
- Klassifikation
-
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
-
Lernen
Lehrplan
Zeit
Bildungsniveau
Entwicklungsländer
Südasien
Afrika
- Ereignis
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
-
Pritchett, Lant
Beatty, Amanda
- Ereignis
-
Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
-
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
-
Munich
- (wann)
-
2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
Datenpartner
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Pritchett, Lant
- Beatty, Amanda
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2012
Ähnliche Objekte (12)
Devaluation and its consequences in developing countries
Some consequences of globalization for developing countries
Some consequences of globalization for developing countries
On the causes and consequences of migration in developing countries
Distributional consequences of remittances: Evidence from sixty-five developing countries
The financial crisis and international trade: the consequences for developing countries
Economic and Political Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment for Developing Countries
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience
A demographic dividend for the developing countries? Consequences of the global aging process
On the problem of negative net financial transfers to developing countries
Consequences of extreme weather events for developing countries based on the example of Mongolia
Devaluation and its consequences in developing countries
Some consequences of globalization for developing countries
Some consequences of globalization for developing countries
On the causes and consequences of migration in developing countries
Distributional consequences of remittances: Evidence from sixty-five developing countries
The financial crisis and international trade: the consequences for developing countries
Economic and Political Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment for Developing Countries
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience
A demographic dividend for the developing countries? Consequences of the global aging process
On the problem of negative net financial transfers to developing countries
Consequences of extreme weather events for developing countries based on the example of Mongolia
Devaluation and its consequences in developing countries
Some consequences of globalization for developing countries
Some consequences of globalization for developing countries
On the causes and consequences of migration in developing countries
Distributional consequences of remittances: Evidence from sixty-five developing countries
The financial crisis and international trade: the consequences for developing countries
Economic and Political Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment for Developing Countries
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience
A demographic dividend for the developing countries? Consequences of the global aging process
On the problem of negative net financial transfers to developing countries