Amanda Beatty
Mathematica Policy Research
Working Paper
This paper examines the relationship between schooling completed and mathematics learning from 2000 to 2014 by developing learning profiles for Indonesia. Using nearly-nationally representative survey data, we find a large gap between students’ ability and standards set by the national curriculum. Learning declined over 14 years, a loss of a fourth of a standard deviation. To put this loss in context, the average child in Grade 7 in 2014 achieved the same numeracy mastery as the average child in Grade 4 in 2000. The reduction in learning was widespread, affecting all subgroups. Junior and senior secondary enrolment increased over this timeframe, but this decline was not due to changes in student composition.
*This paper was previously published under the title, “Indonesia Got Schooled: 15 Years of Rising Enrolment and Flat Learning Profiles” on 30 November 2018. The updated paper was published in the International Journal of Educational Development in volume 85, 2021 under the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102436.
Please access and cite the journal version of this paper:
Beatty, A., Berkhout, E., Bima, L., Pradhan, M., and Suryadarma, D. 2021. Schooling progress, learning reversal: Indonesia’s learning profiles between 2000 and 2014, International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 85, 2021, 102436, ISSN 0738-0593, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102436