Description
The National Department of Education has been collaborating with the World Bank since 2008 to answer the question: did and can a program like Dinaledi significantly contribute to this agenda? The team assembled test score, infrastructure, and program data to understand the evolution of the program and develop a strategy to evaluate its impact. This report summarizes the findings of a retrospective impact evaluation covering the program’s second phase of expansion in 2004 across 350 schools, and presents the estimated program effect between 2005 and 2007.
The study used a matching and difference-in-difference (DID) strategy to measure student math and science uptake and passing rates in Dinaledi schools, relative to student behavior and achievements in similar non-Dinaledi schools. The study was also able to separately identify the impact of the Dinaledi program among former Bantustan schools.