Influence of School Resources in Chile - Their Effect on Educational Achievement and Occupational Attainment

摘要

This report consists of three papers, all dealing with the potential impact of investments in school resources, such as textbooks, other teaching aids, school facilities, teacher training and re-training, etc. The first paper focuses upon occupational attainment, the second upon changes in academic achievement levels while students are still in school, and the third examines in detail patterns of utilization of one of the most ubiquitous school resources: textbooks. Taken as a set the three papers suggest the following propositions: (A) Investments in school quality are likely to have a substantial and positive impact both upon students' success in school and upon their success in the labor market. (B) If they are to have significant impact upon students from lower socio-economic strata, school quality improvements must start early in the educational process and be accompanied by attention to out-of-school problems, such as malnutrition. (C) The impact of such investments will be increased if they are preceded by careful studies of current attitudes toward and utilization of school resources, particularly among teachers. (Copyright (c) 1983 The World Bank.)