Closing Gaps: The Impact of Teaching Quality in the Early Schooling 2

This Technical Cooperation (TC) has two main specific objectives: (i) to identify which characteristics and classroom practices of teachers allow disadvantaged children, who enter school already with profound deficits in cognitive development, to close their skills gaps and catch up to their peers as they advance through primary school; and (ii) to continue the efforts to set up a mentoring pilot for in-service teachers aimed at directly improving their pedagogical practices. Therefore, the TC is aligned with the Bank¿s GCI-9 priority of ¿social policy for equity and productivity¿, in the strategic area of ¿raising the quality and equity of education.¿ Additionally, this TC contributes to the Bank¿s GCI-9 goal of programs for "small and vulnerable countries.¿ The goal of this TC is also strongly linked to specific goals mentioned in the Country Strategy for Ecuador 2012-2017, which identifies social development as one of the main areas for Bank intervention. The general objective of this TC is to continue the longitudinal project, ¿Closing Gaps¿ (the project), which evaluates different dimensions of teacher quality, to provide evidence for the design of more effective educational policies. The project has significant and direct policy implications for Ecuador and other countries in the region, by providing rigorous evidence for the design of effective teacher selection and evaluation systems, targeted in-service teacher training programs, and for compensatory educational programs for disadvantaged children, among others. For these reasons, and taking into account the feedback received from leading international experts in the field, the Ministry of Education in Ecuador (MinEduc) and the Bank have decided to make the project a multi-year one that will follow a cohort of approximately 17,000 students and their different teachers as they advance through primary school.

Project Detail

Country

Ecuador

Project Number

EC-T1335

Approval Date

January 19, 2016

Project Status

Closed

Project Type

Technical Cooperation

Sector

EDUCATION

Subsector

PRESCHOOL & EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Lending Instrument

Lending Instrument Code

Modality

Facility Type

Environmental and Social Impact Category (ESIC)

Category C: Likely to cause minimal or no negative environmental and associated social impacts

Total Cost

USD 1,000,000.00

Country Counterpart Financing

USD 0.00

Original Amount Approved

USD 1,000,000.00

Financial Information

Operation Number	Lending Type	Reporting Currency	Reporting Date	Signed Date	Fund	Financial Instrument
ATN/OC-15468-EC	Sovereign Guaranteed	USD - United States Dollar	Nov. 30, 2024	Jan. 19, 2016	Ordinary Capital	Nonreimbursable

Operation Number

ATN/OC-15468-EC

Lending Type: Sovereign Guaranteed
Reporting Currency: USD - United States Dollar
Reporting Date: Nov. 30, 2024
Signed Date: Jan. 19, 2016
Fund: Ordinary Capital
Financial Instrument: Nonreimbursable

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