Partnership Schools for Liberia

The Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) program will delegate and transfer administrative management of 92 randomly assigned public schools to a variety of private, for-profit companies and non-profit organizations to provide education free of charge to students. However, to understand the impacts of the pilot program and improve future processes from lessons learned, the Government of Liberia would like to engage external researchers to conduct an impact evaluation of the pilot, in order to assess its potential for expansion in the future. IPA was contracted by the Liberian Ministry of Education (MoE) to evaluate the PSL project. Our primary objective is to understand: \"What is the impact of attending a PSL public school rather than a traditional public school on student learning outcomes?\"

利比里亚伙伴学校（Partnership Schools for Liberia，PSL）项目将把92所随机指派的公立学校的行政管理权限委托并移交至各类营利性私立企业与非营利性组织，为学生提供免费教育。为了解该试点项目的实施成效，并从项目经验中优化后续工作流程，利比里亚政府拟聘请外部研究人员开展该试点项目的影响评估，以研判其未来推广的潜力。IPA受利比里亚教育部（Ministry of Education，MoE）委托开展PSL项目的评估工作。本次评估的核心目标为："相较于就读传统公立学校，就读PSL公立学校对学生学习成果的影响究竟如何？"