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Documento técnico : lineamientos para la promoción y protección de la alimentación saludable en las instituciones educativas públicas y privadas de la educación básica
(Ministerio de Salud, 2019-02)Tiene como objeto la promoción y protección efectiva del derecho a la salud pública, al crecimiento y desarrollado adecuado de las personas, a través de acciones de educación, fortalecimiento y fomento de la actividad ... -
Does Access to Better Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Improve Child Outcomes? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
(BID, 2015-06)The document reviews the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. It shows that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between ... -
Does attending a rural school make a difference in how and what you learn?
(OECD, 2019-03)The rural education landscape once consisted of one-room schools where a single teacher educated, took care of and supervised students of diverse ages. While multi-grade teaching is still common in many schools, particularly ... -
Does Gamification in Education Work? : Experimental Evidence from Chile
(BID, 2019-05)Gamification, or the introduction of game elements to non-game contexts, has potential to improve education but there is little rigorous evidence about its effectiveness. In this paper, the authors experimentally evaluate ... -
Does homework perpetuate inequities in education?
(OECD, 2014-12)Mention the word “homework” and most students’ eyes roll and shoulders slump. Parents, too, have their own problems with homework – notably, how to encourage their children to finish it before going out with their friends ... -
Does household access to improved water and sanitation in infancy and childhood predict better vocabulary test performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian and Vietnamese cohort studies?
(BMJ, 2017)Objective: Test associations between household water and sanitation (W&S) and children's concurrent and subsequent Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting Ethiopia, India, ... -
Does it matter how much time students spend on line outside of school?
(OECD, 2016-01)In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common online activities among 15-year-olds were browsing the Internet for fun and participating in social ... -
Does it matter which school a student attends?
(OECD, 2013-04)Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. Across OECD countries, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in ... -
Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect Against Sexual Violence? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2017)Sexual violence against women and girls is widespread globally. In their lifetime, one in three women will experience intimate partner physical or sexual violence and 7 per cent will experience forced sex by someone other ... -
Does Management Matter in Schools
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014-11)The paper collects data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated ... -
Does math make you anxious?
(OECD, 2015-02)Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards ... -
Does money buy strong performance in PISA?
(OECD, 2012-02)Greater national wealth or higher expenditure on education does not guarantee better student performance. Among high-income economies, the amount spent on education is less important than how those resources are used. ... -
Does non-participation in preschool affect children’s reading achievement? International evidence from propensity score analyses
(SpringerOpen, 2016)While expectations are high for early childhood education to support students’ reading literacy, research findings are inconclusive. The purpose of the study is to estimate the effect of preschool non-participation on ... -
Does performance-based pay improve teaching?
(OECD, 2012-05)PISA has long established that high-performing education systems tend to pay their teachers more. They also often prioritise the quality of teaching over other choices, including class size. But in the current budgetary ... -
Does Poverty Research in Russia Follow the Scientific Method?
(World Bank, 2008-02)This paper presents the first critical review of literature on poverty published in Russia between 1992 and 2006. Using a dataset of about 250 publications in Russian scientific journals, the authors assess whether the ... -
Does pre-primary education reach those who need it most?
(OECD, 2014-06)Attendance in pre-primary education is associated with better student performance later on. Fifteen-year-old students in 2012 were more likely than 15-year-olds in 2003 to have attended at least one year of pre-primary ... -
Does Reading Proficiency at Age 15 Affect Pathways through Learning and Work
(OECD, 2010-02)Over the last decade, Canada has experienced a substantial increase in the number of individuals participating in post-secondary education (PSE). This trend emphasizes the importance of understanding the pathways leading ... -
Does Rewarding Pedagogical Excellence Keep Teachers in the Classroom? : Evidence from a Voluntary Award Program
(BID, 2018-06)This paper analyzes the effects on teacher retention and between-school mobility of a program that rewards excellence in pedagogical practice in Chile. Teachers apply voluntarily for the award and those who succeed on a ... -
Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru
(BID, 2014-01)Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because ... -
Does the quality of learning outcomes fall when education expands to include more disadvantaged students?
(OECD, 2017-08)Globally, enrolment in secondary education has expanded dramatically over the past decades. This expansion is also reflected in PISA data, particularly for low- and middle-income countries. Between 2003 and 2015, Indonesia ...