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Formal Technical Education 2009-2013, Independent Impact Evaluation

El Salvador, 2009 - 2013
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Questionnaires
Formal Technical Questionnaires
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Author(s) Mathematica
Date 2016
Country El Salvador
Description This zip file contains the questionnaires for each of the Scholarships, Middle School, and Chatalenga Technical Datasets which constitute the parts of the Formal Technical Education Evaluation
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Reports
Baseline Report - Middle School Strenghtening (Administrative Data)
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Author(s) Mathematica Policy Research, Inc
Date 2010-03-19
Country El Salvador
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Evaluation Design Report - Formal Technical Education Sub-Activity
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Author(s) Larissa Campuzano, Randall Blair
Date 2014-05-14
Country El Salvador
Contributor(s) Mathematica Policy Research, Inc
Table of contents ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................... xi
I INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 1
II OVERVIEW OF THE FORMAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION SUBACTIVITY
......................................................................................................... 3
1. Background on the Formal Technical Education Sub-Activity ............. 3
2. Evidence Base for Sub-Activity Investments ....................................... 8
3. Sub-Activity Implementation ................................................................ 9
III OVERVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP AND SECONDARY SCHOOL
EVALUATIONS .............................................................................................. 15
1. Research Questions and Evaluation Designs ................................... 15
2. Data Collection and Interviewee Selection Plans .............................. 21
3. Data Analysis .................................................................................... 22
4. Limitations ......................................................................................... 24
IV IMPACT EVALUATION DESIGN FOR THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
STRENGTHENING INTERVENTION ............................................................. 25
1. Primary Research Question and Basic Design .................................. 25
2. Data Sources and Outcome Indicators for the Secondary
School Strengthening Intervention .................................................... 28
3. Data Collection Time Frame for Post-Secondary Outcomes
Survey ............................................................................................... 30
4. Impact Estimation for the Secondary School Strengthening
Intervention ........................................................................................ 30
5. Statistical Power ................................................................................ 31
6. Relationship between the impact evaluation results and
ERR ................................................................................................... 33
V IMPACT EVALUATION DESIGN FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP
INTERVENTION ............................................................................................ 35
1. Research Questions and Basic Design ............................................. 35
2. Data Sources and Outcome Indicators: Scholarship
Program ............................................................................................. 37
3. Time Frame of the Intervention and Data Collection ......................... 38
4. Estimating Scholarship Impacts ........................................................ 39
5. Statistical Power ................................................................................ 40
6. Relationship between the impact evaluation results and
ERR ................................................................................................... 41
VI EVALUATION DESIGN FOR THE ITCHA/MEGATEC
INTERVENTION ............................................................................................ 43
1. Research Questions and Basic Design ............................................. 43
2. Data Collection and Interviewee Selection Plans .............................. 47
3. Data Analysis .................................................................................... 51
4. Limitations ......................................................................................... 56
VII ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS ....................................................................... 58
1. Summary of Institutional Review Board Requirements and
Clearances ........................................................................................ 58
2. Data Access, Privacy, and Documentation Plan ............................... 59
3. Dissemination Plan (Description of Products and
Dissemination Efforts) ....................................................................... 59
4. Evaluation Team ............................................................................... 60
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................. 62
APPENDIX A TREATMENT AND CONTROL/COMPARISON GROUPS
FOR EVALUATIONS ........................................................................ A-1
APPENDIX B QUALITATIVE PROTOCOLS FOR SCHOLARSHIP,
SCHOOL STRENGTHENING, AND ITCHA EVALUATIONS ........... B-1
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Evaluation Design Report - ITCHA
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Date 2011-03-18
Country El Salvador
Abstract This memorandum presents the final evaluation design for MCC-funded improvements to
the Instituto Tecnológico de Chalatenango (ITCHA). It builds on memoranda we prepared in
May 2008 (ESVED-073) and August 2008 (ESVED-106) describing potential evaluation designs
for the ITCHA intervention and the limitations and feasibility of an impact evaluation. Based on
these memoranda and input from key stakeholders during our latest visit to El Salvador in March
2011, we have chosen to document the transformation of ITCHA into a Modelo Educativo
Gradual de Aprendizaje Técnico y Tecnológico (MEGATEC), or advanced post-secondary
technical institute. This transformation includes the following components: construction of a new
facility and all relevant school improvements, including new computers and didactic materials;
all recent teacher training related to the ITCHA/MEGATEC; and the introduction of two new
MEGATEC superior technical degree programs. In this memorandum, we describe the
intervention, state the key research question, and describe our recommended evaluation design: a
case study of the process of transformation of ITCHA into a MEGATEC
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Evaluation Design Report - Scholarship
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Date 2010-05-14
Country El Salvador
Abstract This memorandum presents the final impact evaluation design for FOMILENIO’s scholarship activity.1 The goal of the scholarship activity is to increase enrollment, persistence, and completion of secondary and postsecondary education, and ultimately to improve labor market outcomes of youth living in the Northern Zone. The final evaluation design agreed upon Mathematica, MCC, FOMILENIO, and MINED is random assignment of eligible applicants to receive scholarships (intervention group) or not receive scholarships (control group). This method assigns scholarships in a fair and efficient way, as well as serves MCC’s goal of conducting a rigorous impact evaluation. The randomization of scholarships occurred on Friday December 11, 2009. Because it was important to honor the distribution of scholarships that FOMILENIO and MINED allocated to each school and educational program, random assignment was done only within schools and programs in which the demand for scholarships exceeded available scholarships. A total of 636 students were randomly assigned to receive scholarships (intervention group), and 449 students were randomly assigned to no scholarship (control group). After adjustments made by Mathematica in January 2010 in response to potential contamination and eligibility issues, the final sample size for the study was 751 students: 515 students randomly assigned to receive scholarships (intervention group), and 236 students assigned to no scholarship (control group).
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Evaluation Design Report - Technical Middle Schools
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Date 2009-03-11
Country El Salvador
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Baseline Report - Middle School Strengthening (Survey Data)
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Date 2011-03-11
Country El Salvador
Abstract This memo presents the baseline analyses of administrative data for the impact evaluation of the
MCC-funded middle school strengthening activity in El Salvador. This memo complements our
previous memo ESVED-231 (submitted March 31, 2010), in which we presented a student-level
analysis of data from the 2009 Student Follow-up Survey (Encuesta de Seguimiento de Estudiantes).
In this memo, we analyze school-level data from the Ministry of Education’s initial and final
enrollment censuses (Censos de Matrícula Inicial y Final) for the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 school
years. For key measures of enrollment, grade completion, continuation in school, and academic
achievement, we find that the 20 schools selected for the middle school strengthening activity do
not present statistically significant differences from the 20 schools in the comparison group.
However, some differences between beneficiary schools and comparison schools are large in
magnitude. Accordingly, our analysis of follow-up data will control for these differences.
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Final Evaluation Report Package
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Description This folder contains the following documents: (i) Independent Evaluator Final Evaluation Report, (ii) Spanish language version of the Executive Summary, (iii) MCC Summary of Findings, (iv) MCC Management Response, (v) Government of El Salvador's Response.
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Interim Evaluation Report Package
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Description This folder contains the following documents: (i) Independent Evaluator Interim Evaluation Report, (ii) MCC Management Response, (iii) MCC Summary of Findings with Lessons Learned, (iv) Government of El Salvador Response, (v) Spanish-language versions of the executive summary of the evaluation reports.
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Technical documents
Summary of Findings: Measuring Results of the El Salvador Formal Technical Education Sub-activity
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Summary of Findings: Measuring Interim Results of the El Salvador Education and Training Activity
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