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Pickens, Isaiah B. – School Psychology Review, 2022
Effectively directing school resources to support students needing behavioral intervention has been aided by advances in social-emotional-behavioral (SEB) assessments. Growing questions have emerged about whether SEB assessment advances are engaging equitable approaches to their utilization and serving as a catalyst for equitable access to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Evaluation Methods, Decision Making, Student Evaluation
King, Julian – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
As evaluators, we are often asked to determine whether policies and programs provide value for the resources invested. Addressing that question can be a quandary, and, in some cases, evaluators question whether cost-benefit analysis is fit for this purpose. With increased interest globally in social enterprise, impact investing, and social impact…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Economic Research, Cost Effectiveness, Resource Allocation
Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2017
Educational technology products offer potentially effective means of supporting teaching and learning in K-12 classrooms. But for any given instructional need, there are likely to be numerous product options available for purchasing. What can school districts do to help ensure that good selections are made? In a recent, comprehensive study of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, School Districts, Purchasing
Fitzpatrick, Manuela; Figueroa, Diana Toledo; Golden, Gillian; Crosby, Shiana – OECD Publishing, 2018
This policy profile on education in Kazakhstan is part of the Education Policy Outlook series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Building on the OECD's substantial comparative and sectorial policy knowledge base, the series offers a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Fakharzadeh, Tala – OECD Publishing, 2016
Recent demographic, economic and political trends have drawn attention to the issue of effectiveness and efficiency in the use of resources in the education sector. In the context of the renewed interest for the optimisation of resource use, this paper attempts to review the literature on budgeting and accounting in OECD education systems. The…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Accounting
Handy, Femida; Mook, Laurie – Research on Social Work Practice, 2011
This article examines the phenomenon of volunteering from a benefit-cost perspective. Both the individual making a decision to volunteer and the organization making a decision to use volunteer labor face benefits and costs of their actions, yet these costs and benefits almost always remain unarticulated, perhaps because the common perception of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Volunteers, Costs, Resource Allocation
Beets, P.; van Louw, T. – Africa Education Review, 2011
Central to the pursuit of education and its functions like assessment, is social justice. Given the (still) existing inequalities brought about by years of neglect, it is clear that the building of a just society is indeed fraught with challenges. This article explores the extent to which all learners in South Africa are afforded fair treatment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Evaluation Methods, Educational Policy
Schori, Maayan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2011
This article reviews the use of several valuation methods as they relate to drug abuse and places them within the context of U.S. policy. First, cost-of-illness (COI) studies are reviewed and their limitations discussed. Second, three additional economic methods of valuing drug abuse are reviewed, including cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA),…
Descriptors: Evidence, Economic Research, Drug Abuse, Cost Effectiveness
Hendricks, Michael; Bamberger, Michael – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Each year a great many evaluations are conducted of international development efforts around the world. These development evaluations study projects, programs, country-wide portfolios, policy reform efforts, and other topics of interest to funders, governments, program managers, and other involved stakeholders. Although some of these evaluations…
Descriptors: Program Development, Economic Development, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2011
The "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965" ("ESEA") requires that school districts provide services to higher-poverty, Title I schools, from state and local funds, that are at least comparable to services in lower-poverty, non-Title I schools. The current Title I comparability requirement allows school districts to…
Descriptors: Poverty, Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Finance
Grossman, Tabitha; Reyna, Ryan; Shipton, Stephanie – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2011
In recent years, governors, chief state school officers, business leaders, and college faculty have grown increasingly concerned that American students are not adequately prepared either for college or for the workforce. Governors and chief state school officers understood that the changing economy and persistent achievement gaps required a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, State Standards, Academic Standards
Jared DuPree, W.; White, Mark B.; Meredith, William H.; Ruddick, Lindsay; Anderson, Michael P. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2009
Due to an increasing trend among states to cut higher education funds, many universities are relying more on private donations and federal funding to keep programs afloat. Scholarship productivity in general has become an integral factor in terms of universities granting tenure to faculty, allocating resources, and supporting program goals due to…
Descriptors: Productivity, Faculty Publishing, Doctoral Programs, Family Counseling
Walwyn, D. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The performance management of higher education institutions is a major challenge for many countries. Such institutions deliver mostly a social as opposed to an economic return, and cannot be evaluated using the same approach as is applicable to a business enterprise. Many countries have developed rather complex and elaborate approaches to this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Institutional Evaluation
Petrilli, Michael J.; Roza, Marguerite – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2011
After years of non-stop increases--national k-12 per-pupil spending is up by "one-third" in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1995--schools now face the near-certainty of repeated annual budget cuts for the first time since the Great Depression. In some states and districts, reductions will be dramatic--well into the double digits. And…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Budgets, Public Education, Expenditure per Student
Ritsila, Jari; Nieminen, Mika; Sotarauta, Markku; Lahtonen, Jukka – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2008
This paper is based on the work of an expert team invited by the Ministry of Education of Finland to develop criteria and an evaluation framework for societal and economic engagement for use in university performance management. The paper maps out possible indicators for the societal and economic engagement of universities in the light of national…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation