Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR18169 Document Date: FEB 11, 2015

Author: 0000A8056

Document Type: Disbursement Letter Report No.: Document Date: FEB 04, 2015

Author: Garrote,Jimena

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR16011 Document Date: FEB 03, 2015

Author: 0000A8056

Document Type: Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet Report No.: 94041 Document Date: JAN 29, 2015

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR17194 Document Date: JAN 15, 2015

Author: 0000A8056

Good teachers are essential for high-quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers' skills formation during college. By combining two standardized tests for Colombian students, one taken at the end of senior year in high school and the other when students are near graduation from college, this paper documents the extent to which education majors relatively improve or deteriorate their skills in quantitative reasoning, native language, and foreign language, in comparison to students in other programs. ... See More + Teachers' skills vis-a-vis those in other majors deteriorate in quantitative reasoning and foreign language, although they deteriorate less for those in math-oriented and foreign language-oriented programs. For native language, there is no evidence of robust differences in relative learning mobility.  See Less -

Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7168 Document Date: JAN 01, 2015

Author: Balcazar, Carlos Felipe; Nopo, Hugo

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR17686 Document Date: DEC 23, 2014

Author: 0000A8056

Document Type: Side Letter Report No.: Document Date: DEC 22, 2014

Author: Garrote,Jimena

Document Type: Loan Agreement Report No.: Document Date: DEC 22, 2014

Author: Garrote,Jimena

Document Type: Side Letter Report No.: Document Date: DEC 14, 2014

Author: Garrote,Jimena