Improving O-Level Performance: School Resources Matter

Abstract

Poor academic performance is often attributed to low government spending on education. But how effective is such spending in improvig academic performance? This policy brief based on an on-going IPS study examines whether, and to what extent, school-level resources - including school, teacher, and principal characteristics - have an impact on student performance at the O-Levels. in the study, student performance was measured as the share of students who sit for the O-Levels that qualify to proceed to A-Level classes.