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Adriana Vamosiu; Marvin A. Titus; Jon Sandy – Higher Education Policy, 2024
We investigate operating costs at 682 public community colleges in the United States over a 15-year period (2004-2018). The results reveal that costs are spatially correlated across neighboring institutions, indicating the need for a spatial analysis. An institution's actions are associated with changes in costs for that particular institution…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Operating Expenses, Correlation, Economic Factors
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Chuanyi, Wang; Xiaohong, Lv; Shikui, Zhao – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
This paper applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to explore the relative efficiency of China's research universities of science and technology. According to the finding, when talent training is the only output, the efficiency of research universities of science and technology is far lower than that of…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Scientific Research, Higher Education, Correlation
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Montoneri, Bernard – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2013
Effective teaching performance is a crucial factor contributing to students' learning improvement. Students' ratings of teachers at the end of each semester can indirectly provide valuable information about teachers' performance. This paper selects classes of freshmen students taking a course of English in a university of Taiwan from the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Freshmen, English Teachers
Newell, Marshall D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With a global marketplace, companies are seeking ways to manage knowledge with tools, such as the corporate university toward gaining a competitive advantage. Research has identified a common goal is to sustain competitive advantage. With a competitive advantage, a company may achieve a higher profitability. Thus far, research has provided limited…
Descriptors: Investment, Outcomes of Education, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools
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Webber, Douglas A. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories across student characteristics. I estimate that student…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Educational Finance, Measurement, Probability
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Coupet, Jason; Barnum, Darold – International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2010
Discussions of efficiency among Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are often missing in academic conversations. This article seeks to assess efficiency of individual HBCUs using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a non-parametric technique that can synthesize multiple inputs and outputs to determine a single efficiency score for…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Finance, Efficiency, Data Analysis
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Emmons, Mark; Wilkinson, Frances C. – College & Research Libraries, 2011
What impact does the academic library have on student persistence? This study explores the relationship between traditional library input and output measures of staff, collections, use, and services with fall-to-fall retention and six-year graduation rates at Association of Research Libraries member libraries. When controlling for race/ethnicity…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Persistence, Library Services, Library Materials
Nava, Michael E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The academic and social integration of first-generation college students into institutions of higher education continues to be a topic of concern for university administrators, faculty, and staff. Students enter college with different background traits and experiences as well as have different college experiences that can either permit or prohibit…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Research Universities, Social Integration
Saavedra, Juan Esteban – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Chapter 1 examines the effects of college quality on students' learning, employment and earnings in Colombia. Scores on a national college "entry" test solely determine admission to many selective Colombian universities, creating exogenous peer and resource quality variation near admission cutoffs. In one regression discontinuity (RD)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Productivity, Vocational Schools