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Dupuis, Y. – 1979
This paper explains the education price index formulated in 1979 for Canada. It defines a price index as a statistical measure designed to show changes in the price of a commodity or a set of commodities with respect to time. The index calculated for the project covers salaries and wages, instructional supplies, school facilities, supplies and…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures, Foreign Countries
Matthews, Kenneth M. – 1980
Encompassing the years between 1969 and 1979, this study of 18 standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) attempted to determine if changes in selected economic indicators were correlated with changes in teacher salaries. Researchers looked at changes in consumer price indices, per capita personal income, and average beginning teachers'…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Income
Download full textGeffet, Maayan; Feitelson, Dror G. – 2001
An obvious and natural approach to organizing a large corpus of data is a hierarchical index--akin to a book's table of contents. The type of corpus dealt with here is a bibliographical repository, with entries form a limited domain. Given such an index, it is desirable that search results point to relevant locations in the hierarchy, rather than…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Indexes, Information Processing
Wacholder, Nina; Evans, David K.; Klavans, Judith L. – 2001
The potential of automatically generated indexes for information access has been recognized for several decades, but the quantity of text and the ambiguity of natural language processing have made progress at this task more difficult than was originally foreseen. Recently, a body of work on development of interactive systems to support phrase…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Indexes, Information Seeking
Allison, Derek J. – 1979
This paper discusses the need for a school price index for Canadian schools rather than use of the current government expenditure index to measure price effects on school costs. It discusses four effects on the amount of money spent by school boards, namely, enrollment, quality of schooling, efficiency of use of resources, and current market…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Sherman, Joel D. – 1986
By focusing attention on comparative state performance in educating students, the Wall Chart (State Education Statistics, 1983) forced policymakers to consider state differences in student populations and the consequences of these differences for the outcomes of state systems of education. This paper presents the results of a study that attempted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Indexes, Disabilities
