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Stoneberg, Bert D. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2015
Public school critics often point to rising expenditures and relatively flat test scores to justify their school reform agendas. The claims are flawed because their analyses fail to account for the difference in data types between dollars (ratio) and test scores (interval). A cost-benefit analysis using dollars as a common metric for both costs…
Descriptors: Public Education, Cost Effectiveness, Input Output Analysis, Educational Policy
Brown, Byron W.; Saks, Daniel H. – 1979
Using data collected in a beginning teacher evaluation study, this paper attempts to show that time is an important input in producing learning. First the paper discusses equalization of tax bases in school districts, inequality in the distribution of inputs, and the importance of multiple outputs in schools. Next it describes an economic model of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Input Output Analysis
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2000
This paper provides a summary of four projects currently funded through Australia's National Center for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), including what they propose to achieve and their preliminary findings to date. After an introduction, an overview of preliminary findings from the four projects is presented. The following barriers to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developed Nations, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Lindsay, Alan W.; Bailey, Michael – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1980
A general convex polytope technique for exploratory data analysis and its particular application to analyzing the input-output relationship in universities is discussed. Its use is illustrated by means of a simple analysis of data from Australian universities. (MLW)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries