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Wight, Jonathan B. – Journal of Economic Education, 2017
The normative elements underlying efficiency are more complex than generally portrayed and rely upon ethical frameworks that are generally absent from classroom discussions. Most textbooks, for example, ignore the ethical differences between Pareto efficiency (based on voluntary win-win outcomes) and the modern Kaldor-Hicks efficiency used in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Accountability, Efficiency, Economics Education
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Hamid, M. Obaidul; Jahan, Iffat – Language Policy, 2021
As global language policy, English language teaching (ELT) development aid is as old as the field of language policy and planning. Contemporary discourses of ELT aid management acknowledge voices of project beneficiaries such as teachers. Beneficiary testimonials may satisfy the neoliberal demand for accountability, efficiency and evidence of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Ethics
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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2019
As proponents continue to make the case that virtual education can expand student choices and improve the efficiency of public education, full-time virtual schools have attracted a great deal of attention. Advocates contend that this potential for individualization allows virtual schools to promote greater student achievement than can be realized…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Efficiency, Distance Education, Academic Achievement
A. S. Arul Lawrence, Editor; C. Barathi, Editor; P. Pandia Vadivu, Editor – Online Submission, 2015
The Indian higher education system is facing an unprecedented transformation in the coming decade. This transformation is being driven by economic and demographic change: by 2020, India will be the world's third largest economy, with a correspondingly rapid growth in the size of its middle classes. The three central pillars of the government's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Governance
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Crombag, Hans F. M. – Higher Education, 1978
"Quality of graduates" is distinguished from "quality of education," which is renamed "efficiency of education." The first concept is defined in a quantitative manner; the second, by a set of 66 statements concerning the efficiency of education derived from judgments about the effectiveness of particular teaching methods in the achievement of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, College Role, Educational Objectives
Jamison, Dean T. – 1976
The assertion that productivity is declining in education, economists' work on educational production functions, and definitions of efficiency and productivity are discussed in three reports on the economics of education. The measurement and aggregation problems in the determination of productivity changes in education are explained, and three…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Definitions, Educational Assessment