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Sanders, Ryan; Zhang, Shengfan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: Teacher pay in Arkansas public schools varies widely from district to district across the state. This pay discrepancy is driven by both the funds available to a district and by how these funds are allocated. A standard per student budget is given to districts across the state, but this budget can be supplemented by additional property…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public Schools, Resource Allocation, Educational Finance
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Rios, Joseph A.; Liu, Ou Lydia – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Online higher education institutions are presented with the concern of how to obtain valid results when administering student learning outcomes (SLO) assessments remotely. Traditionally, there has been a great reliance on unproctored Internet test administration (UIT) due to increased flexibility and reduced costs; however, a number of validity…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Testing, Test Wiseness, Academic Achievement
Womack, Sid T.; Roberts, Kerry; Bell, C. David; Womack, Karen – Online Submission, 2015
Cost-benefit correlations have been subject to "selective sampling" in the media. Usually extremes of data from a very few high-funding and low-funding states are cited in the media to construct the case that there is no relationship between economic inputs and academic outputs. This study, using average per-pupil expenditures and ACT…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Predictor Variables
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Fitzpatrick, Caroline – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014
Reducing the economic and social burden associated with poor academic achievement represents an urgent concern in South Africa. Increasingly research suggests that child characteristics in kindergarten play an important role in charting courses towards academic success and educational attainment by early adulthood. Although math and reading skills…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Disadvantaged, Achievement Gap, Executive Function
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Brown, Christopher P. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
Background: Policymakers' use of high-stakes exams to improve students' academic achievement affects teachers and their tenure in the field at all levels of schooling. Novice teachers now being inducted into the field have been educated almost exclusively in these high-stakes learning environments. Yet, how their familiarity with these contexts…
Descriptors: Case Studies, High Stakes Tests, Context Effect, Beginning Teachers
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Boado, Hector Cebolla – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This paper explores the prospective transition of immigrant and native students in France from lower to upper secondary school. Because they are more likely to be tracked to less prestigious (vocational) tracks, immigrant and immigrant-origin students are significantly disadvantaged at this key academic stage in comparison with the children of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Crampton, Faith E.; Thompson, David C. – School Business Affairs, 2011
Today's school business officials are more aware than ever of the importance of making every dollar count. As they scour their budgets for possible savings, they may be tempted to reduce investment in school infrastructure, perhaps by deferring maintenance, renovations, and replacement of outdated facilities. However, school business officials…
Descriptors: Productivity, Models, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement
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Saatcioglu, Argun; Moore, Suzanne; Sargut, Gokce; Bajaj, Aarti – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2011
Social capital refers to the nature of ties within a social unit, as well as the unit's external relationships. We draw from organizational sociology and political science, and also build upon existing insights in school board research, to offer an approach that address the effects of "bonding" (internal ties) and "bridging"…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Social Capital, Governance, Board of Education Role
Berg, Juliette; Torrente, Catalina; Aber, J. Lawrence; Jones, Stephanie M.; Brown, Joshua L. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The 4Rs Program (Reading, Writing, Respect and Resolution) is a "dual focus" whole school universal intervention designed to promote literacy development and social-emotional learning, that is currently being rigorously evaluated using a school-randomized trial of 18 elementary schools (9 intervention, 9 control) in New York City. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Change, Data, Program Evaluation
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
In the UK, education is the third largest area of government spending (of which school spending has the largest share). Since 2000, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real terms for both primary and secondary schools (see Figure 1). The question as to whether such investment is worthwhile is of central importance. The…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Academic Achievement, English, Achievement Gains
Walberg, Herbert J.; Fowler, William J., Jr. – 1986
A large scale study was undertaken to shed light on the question of school district efficiency, that is, the extent to which school districts are able to increase achievement beyond what would be expected from their families socioeconomic origins. Average scores on state-developed and nationally-standardized tests of third, sixth, and ninth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics
Hunter, Michael G.; Rumbaugh, Stanley A. – 1976
This report presents a summary description of the 1974-75 Michigan Cost-Effectiveness Study and its findings. The study was an effort to develop and implement evaluation techniques for determining what educational practices affect student behavior and what costs are associated with those practices. Overall purpose of the 1974-75 study was to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Silvernail, David L.; Sloan, James E. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2004
Maine should be very proud of its public school system. Without question, since passage of the Sinclair Act in 1957, Maine has made great strides in the last 45 years in improving the quality of its public schools, and in expanding educational opportunities for more and more of its children. Maine citizens have increased their investment four-fold…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Educational Opportunities
Bradley, Paul A. – 1972
This survey attempted to obtain data on the probability of improving student achievement when a new instructional program is implemented in an elementary school. The purpose of estimating the variable probability of improving student achievement was for use in the specification of a decision model whose purpose is to rank educational goals in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Administrator Attitudes
Rossmiller, Richard A.; And Others – 1979
Cost, resource utilization, and productivity were studied in 41 elementary schools using Individually Guided Education (IGE) and in 15 matched pairs of IGE and non-IGE schools. Instructional expenditures in IGE and non-IGE schools did not differ significantly. However, IGE teachers devoted significantly more time to individual instruction. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Resources, Elementary Education
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