Rooj & sengupta quality of education and school dropout

Assessing the Impact of School Quality on PrimarySchool Dropout Rates: A Study of Schools in

Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Debasis Rooj & Reshmi Sengupta

The Glocal University

E&H ConferenceOctober 25th and 26th, 2013

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Motivation

One of the major aims of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA): Universalretention by 2010

Dropout rate in primary schools:

I Ministry of Human Resources (2012): In 2011-12 the dropout rate was27% (28.7% for boys and 25.1% for girls)

I District Information System for Education (DISE):

1 In 2008-2009, all India dropout rate: 9.11% ( 9.35% for boys and8.16% for girls)

2 In 2008-2009, school dropout rate in Uttar Pradesh: 16.7% ( 17.5 %for boys and 16.7% for girls)


Over-Time Scenario


Some Important Reasons Behind Dropouts

Parent Centric:

1 Poverty2 Family’s social and demographic characteristics

School Centric:

1 School facilities2 Quality of education

Our Objective: To study the impact of school facilities and teachers‘quality on dropout rates


Relevant Studies

Jayaraman and Smith (2011): Impact of mid-day meal on enrolment

Mukherji and Mukherji (2009): Impact of School Development Fundon school functionality


Data

District Information System for Education (DISE)

Most comprehensive information system in the education sector inIndia

DISE is a school-level data set covering government-recognizedelementary institutions

It is a joint initiative of the Government of India, UNICEF and theNational University of Educational Planning and Administration(NUEPA)

We consider the data for Saharanpur district for the academic year2011-2012, Sample 2036 observations


Summary Statistics


Results


Conclusion

Medium of instruction being English, presence of both electricity anddrinking water facility in the school, number of graduate teachers,increased teacheras grant under SSA, and any academic inspectionresult in a decrease in the dropout rate.

Presence of common toilet facility in the school and surprisingly thepresence of only electricity in the school, increase the rate of dropout.

Developing a very good infrastructure is a pre-requisite for a goodschooling system.


Future Work

A comprehensive theoretical model, Cabus and Witte (2012)

Closer look at the number of days involved in non-teachingassignments

Consider all the districts of UP and eventually all Indian states

Longitudinal Analysis
