免费高中教育政策和双轨制对优质教育效果的影响——加纳的准实验性政策评估研究

IF 0.2 Q4 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Africa Education Review Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI:10.1080/18146627.2023.2225754
D. Dwomoh, A. Godi, J. Tetteh, C. Amoatey, R. Appiah Otoo, Leticia Tornyevah, C. Hazlett
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在2017/2018学年,加纳政府通过教育部启动了一项名为“免费高中”(FSHS)的教育改革政策,旨在充分吸收加纳所有公立高中的成本,增加入学率,提高教育质量。为容纳更多学生及纾缓学校的挤迫情况,政府在“学生及教师资助计划”的政策下,推行双轨制,将学生及教职员人数分成双轨制;当一个轨道上学时,另一个在度假,反之亦然。没有研究评估过这项政策对教育成果的影响。本研究评估学生资助计划政策及双轨制对优质教育成果的影响,并探讨推行这些政策时所面对的挑战。该研究进一步确定了应对这些挑战所需的战略。该研究采用准实验研究设计,使用旨在评估质量教育指标的前后数据收集工具。我们还使用比较横断面研究设计和定性设计方法来评估FSHS政策和双轨制。我们使用具有聚类鲁棒标准误差的分位数和普通最小二乘回归模型量化了政策的影响。我们对该政策的评估显示,教育成果质量和学业成绩显著下降。与非双轨制学校相比,双轨制学校的学生在所有核心科目上的表现都很差。与执行该政策有关的挑战是财政限制、基础设施不足、食品发放不足和延迟、缺乏教学材料、接触时间不足以及政策和双轨制执行不力。政府必须全面检讨家庭健康资助计划的政策,并考虑与家长和照顾者分担费用,以维持该政策。
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The Impact of the Free Senior High School Education Policy and Double-Track System on Quality Education Outcomes: A Quasi-Experimental Policy Evaluation Study in Ghana
Abstract In the 2017/2018 academic year, the government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Education, began an educational reform policy codenamed the “Free Senior High School” (FSHS) policy to fully absorb the cost, increase enrolment, and improve the quality of education for all public senior high schools in Ghana. To accommodate more students and reduce overcrowding in schools, the government, as part of the FSHS policy, introduced the double-track system, which divides the total student population and staff into two tracks; as one of the tracks attends school, the other is on vacation and vice versa. No study has assessed this policy on education outcomes. This study assessed the impact of the FSHS policy and the double-track system on quality education outcomes and explored the challenges associated with the implementation of the policies. The study further identified strategies needed to address these challenges. The study employed a quasi-experimental study design using a pre-post data collection instrument designed to assess quality education metrics. We also used a comparative cross-sectional study design and qualitative design methodologies to evaluate the FSHS policy and the double-track system. We quantified the impact of the policies using quantile and ordinary least square regression models with cluster robust standard errors. Our evaluation of the policy showed a significant decline in quality of education outcomes and academic performance. Students who attended the double-track schools performed poorly in all the core subjects compared with non-double-track schools. The challenges associated with the implementation of the policy were financial constraints, infrastructure deficit, inadequate and delayed release of food items, lack of teaching and learning materials, inadequate contact hours, and poor implementation of the policy and the double-track system. Government must comprehensively review the FSHS policy and consider cost sharing with parents and caregivers to sustain the policy.
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期刊介绍: Africa Education Review is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current educational issues. It encourages debate on theory, policy and practice on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary interests on international and global scale. The journal therefore welcomes contributions from associated disciplines including sociology, psychology and economics. Africa Education Review is interested in stimulating scholarly and intellectual debate on education in general, and higher education in particular on a global arena. What is of particular interest to the journal are manuscripts that seek to contribute to the challenges and issues facing primary and secondary in general, and higher education on the African continent and in the global contexts in particular. The journal welcomes contributions based on sound theoretical framework relating to policy issues and practice on the various aspects of higher education.
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