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Çetin, Münevver; Maral, Muammer – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to present the general trend and direction of the research, both in terms of content and methodology, from a critical point of view by examining the studies on the efficiency of higher education in Türkiye and thus, to shed light on new research to be done and to make suggestions to researchers. Bibliographic analysis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Efficiency, Educational Research
Thompson, Jeremy; Young, J. Kenneth; Shelton, Kaye – School Leadership Review, 2021
Policymakers and professional educators attempt to be good stewards of public funds while simultaneously raising expectations for student outcomes that reflect academic excellence in the public school system. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of Texas public school districts and the factors influencing the inefficiency of…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Public Schools, School Districts, Performance Factors
Sillah, B. M. S. – Africa Education Review, 2012
This paper employs a stochastic production frontier model to assess the efficiency of the senior secondary schools in the Gambia. It examines their efficiency in using and mixing the educational inputs of average teacher salary, average teacher education, average teacher experience and students-to-teacher ratio in producing the number of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, School Effectiveness, Efficiency
Houck, Eric A.; Rolle, R. Anthony; He, Jiang – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
This article examines the relative production efficiency of school districts in Georgia using the modified quadriform method. Overall, we find that the modified quadriform allows state-level policymakers to access a basic tool for analysis that makes relative comparison of school district productivity for use in policy analysis and policy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Policy Analysis, School Districts, Efficiency
Return on Educational Investment: A District-by-District Evaluation of U.S. Educational Productivity
Boser, Ulrich – Center for American Progress, 2011
This report is the culmination of a yearlong effort to study the efficiency of the nation's public education system and includes the first-ever attempt to evaluate the productivity of almost every major school district in the country. In the business world, the notion of productivity describes the benefit received in exchange for effort or money…
Descriptors: Productivity, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Public Education
Hess, Frederick M. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2004
The United States currently spends a good deal more on education per student than most industrialized nations, yet testing shows that achievement has not kept pace with spending. Nevertheless, school administrators continue to press for greater federal spending and claim that reforms cannot be implemented otherwise.
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Expenditure per Student, Correlation, Academic Achievement
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1982
The movement toward school consolidation was triggered by James Bryant Conant's contention that larger schools are more efficient and offer more comprehensive programs. Many studies seem to support the claim that larger schools are cheaper to operate. Yet problems with these studies include wide variation in the minimum, optimum, and maximum sizes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness