Inversión en educación y resultados en pruebas estandarizadas: El desempeño en las pruebas Saber 11 de los estudiantes del Caribe colombiano

Abstract

This study analyzes the evolution of investment in education, its sources, and its uses across the 196 municipalities of the Colombian Caribbean from 2014 to 2021, including capital cities. Using spatial analysis of the data, we identify clusters based on students' results in the Saber 11 tests, investment spending on education, the municipality's category, and multidimensional poverty levels. The findings indicate that, between 2014 and 2018, the overall scores of municipalities in the region on the Saber 11 tests decreased and. Additionally, we observed a positive spatial autocorrelation between investment in educational quality and multidimensional poverty in the Colombian Caribbean region. Finally, the spatial autoregression model revealed that the fiscal category of the municipality does not account for the results obtained in the Saber 11 tests. In contrast, poverty—measured by the multidimensional poverty index—exhibits an inverse relationship with students' scores on the Saber 11 test: as multidimensional poverty increases, overall scores decrease.