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Aristovnik, Aleksander – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to review some previous researches examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a non-parametric methodology, i.e. data envelopment analysis…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Developed Nations, Efficiency, Input Output Analysis
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Chingos, Matthew M. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Class-size reduction (CSR) mandates presuppose that resources provided to reduce class size will have a larger impact on student outcomes than resources that districts can spend as they see fit. I estimate the impact of Florida's statewide CSR policy by comparing the deviations from prior achievement trends in districts that were required to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Class Size, Academic Achievement, State Policy
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Houck, Eric A.; Rolle, R. Anthony; He, Jiang – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
This article examines the relative production efficiency of school districts in Georgia using the modified quadriform method. Overall, we find that the modified quadriform allows state-level policymakers to access a basic tool for analysis that makes relative comparison of school district productivity for use in policy analysis and policy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Policy Analysis, School Districts, Efficiency
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Martins, Lurdes; Veiga, Paula – Economics of Education Review, 2010
This paper measures and decomposes socioeconomic-related inequality in mathematics achievement in 15 European Union member states. Data is taken from the 2003 wave of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). There is socioeconomic-related inequality in mathematics achievement, favoring the higher socioeconomic groups in each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics, Economic Factors, Mathematics Achievement
Van Beek, Michael – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2011
In the passionate debates over providing equal educational opportunity for all children, it's frequently argued that large financial inequities create challenges for many public schools, particularly those in lower-income urban areas. This study compares the revenues and operating expenditures of Michigan's urban, suburban, town and rural school…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Schools, Expenditures, Municipalities
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Guthrie, James W. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
This article contends that a new concept of education finance has emerged in response to substantial alterations in the U.S. education policy environment. The major distinction between modern and old is that the latter was principally concerned with arrangements of inputs in K-12 schooling. The former, modern-era education finance, is concerned…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Sector, Data Analysis
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Fowler, William J., Jr., Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 1999
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) commissioned the papers in this publication to address advances in measuring education inflation and adjusting for it, as well as to examine the emergence of a new focus on school spending, rather than school district spending, as well as new, private sources of funding for public education, and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Cost Indexes, Investment, Productivity