期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2010
卷号：2010
期号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：This paper shows the value of school autonomy for educational performance. To fully capture
the informational advantage of local actors, we define school autonomy as the operational
empowerment of the principals and teachers. The Flemish secondary school system in
Belgium is analyzed as it is has a long history of educational school autonomy, but
considerable variation between schools in school staff empowerment. Combining detailed
school level and pupil level data from the PISA 2006 study with a semiparametric hierarchical
model, we find strong indications that operational school autonomy is associated with high
educational performance if appropriate accountability systems are active. Sensitivity tests
show that both low and high-performers benefit from this kind of school autonomy
关键词：educational performance, PISA, school autonomy, educational production
function, semiparametric.
