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ISSN: 0304-2758    frecuency : 2   format : Electrónica

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Volume 39 Number 2 Year 2012

5 articles in this issue 

Rómulo A. Chumacero, Ricardo D. Paredes

The educational voucher system builds on the pillars of informed choice and competition to improve the quality of the education provided. This document summarizes some of the results of recent literature on the subject, and discusses their public policy i... see more

Pags. pp. 115 - 122  

Alejandro Carrasco, Ernesto San Martín

This paper discusses the potential contribution of employing school effectiveness methodological approach within the ongoing research debate on school choice issues. Using the first approach, we estimate the effectiveness of a sample of Chilean schools af... see more

Pags. pp. 123 - 141  

Daniel Gómez, Rómulo A. Chumacero, Ricardo D. Paredes

One of the pillars of the educational voucher system is that competition between schools to attract students would improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys in Chile have suggested that parents are not aware of the performance of their childr... see more

Pags. pp. 143 - 157  

Marcela Román, Marcela Perticará

This study addresses the phenomenon of permanence for long years of low performance (urban) schools, measured by SIMCE. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student´s mobility rates in thes... see more

Pags. pp. 159 - 177  

Gregory Elacqua, Matías Martínez, Humberto Santos, Daniela Urbina

In this paper, we analyze the schooling alternatives of families that could face school closure. This article identifies, characterizes, and georeferences the institutions classified as low-performing by the SEP Law along with their closest alternatives. ... see more

Pags. pp. 179 - 202