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Evaluation of a Project Using a 'School-Based Index' to Improve Decision Making and Student Learning
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Knipe, Sally; Bottrell, Christine – Educational Research Quarterly, 2023
The technological capacity that now exists to gather and store large amounts of data has improved access to information related to the academic performance, demographic profile and welfare needs of young people in a school. Improvements in data management techniques, statistical data analysis and software packages have made retrieving and…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Indexes, Data Analysis, Enrollment
Collective Bargaining and District Costs for Teacher Health Insurance: An Examination of the Data from the BLS and Wisconsin
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Costrell, Robert M. – Journal of School Choice, 2015
District costs for teachers' health insurance are, on average, higher then employer costs for private-sector professionals. How much of this is attributable to collective bargaining? This article examines the question using data from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the state of Wisconsin. In…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Health Insurance, Teacher Employment Benefits, National Surveys
Trends of E-Learning Research from 2000 to 2008: Use of Text Mining and Bibliometrics
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Hung, Jui-long – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This study investigated the longitudinal trends of e-learning research using text mining techniques. Six hundred and eighty-nine (689) refereed journal articles and proceedings were retrieved from the Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index database in the period from 2000 to 2008. All e-learning publications were grouped into two…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Medical Education, Social Sciences, Journal Articles
The Impact of Tuition Increases on Enrollment at Public Colleges and Universities
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Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
In this paper we review recent increases in tuition at public institutions and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data on all U.S. public 4-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2006 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically beginning in the early part of this decade. We examine impacts of such increases on total enrollment and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Tuition, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Trends
Principals' Salaries, 2008-2009
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Cooke, Willa D.; Licciardi, Chris – Principal, 2009
How do salaries of elementary and middle school principals compare with those of other administrators and classroom teachers? Are increases in salaries of principals keeping pace with increases in salaries of classroom teachers? How have principals' salaries fared over the years when the cost of living is taken into account? There are reliable…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Principals, Salaries
Indexed Ideational Shifts in the "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army."
Lussky, Joan – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Explores to what extent the germ theory, when it was still a relatively new idea, is evident in the bibliographic records in the "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army" (Index Cat), the largest medical bibliographical tool ever published. Data suggest that scientists are quick to apply the new…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Catalogs