Índice de vulnerabilidad escolar en República Dominicana: características y localización geográfica

Abstract

The Management System and the National Testing databases were integrated in order to develop an educational vulnerability index that takes into account school dropout and repetition indicators, and the
scores of national tests per subject. An algorithm for constructing the index was proposed and
was related with the characteristics of the education system to analyze school vulnerability. These are the
size of the district, the school size, difficulty of access and the sector. While these variables only characterize
the vulnerability, what matters is that it can develop an economy of vulnerability, which allowed mapping
vulnerability location and regional districts. These have the potential to provide information intelligence
in the education sector that contributes to decision making and targeting of interventions that result in
greater equity in the system.