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Carrasqueira, Karina; Koslinski, Mariane C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
The objective of this work was to verify if there is an association between a merit pay policy practiced by the Rio de Janeiro municipal local administration in the patterns of teachers' mobility and attrition. The research followed the movement of teachers who took posts in the Rio de Janeiro municipal system between 2009 and 2011 during the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Incentives, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Quintero-Fragozo, Camilo; Cortés, Yasna; Sarrias, Mauricio – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
This study analyzes the effect of spatial competition on public schools' efficiency in Chile, an extreme case of market-oriented reforms in the educational sector. To address this issue, we use a measure of competition that captures three major characteristics of market competition in a spatial context: the number of competitors, based on distance…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Efficiency
Boman, Björn – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The current article examined educational achievement at lower-secondary level in Sweden (Grade 9), using grades and national test results (NTR) as the dependent variables. Linear regressions and bivariate correlations indicated that the proportion of highly-educated individuals in each municipality was positively associated with grades and NTR and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Martins, Bruno; Nunes, Adélia; Lourenço, Luciano – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
This study aims to assess the perception that 9th year students have about some key concepts related to the "science of risk" and to evaluate their ability to identify and classify the natural and mixed risks with a greater probability of occurrence, both at national level and in the Metropolitan Area of Porto (MAP). A questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mass Media, Risk, Proximity
Alvaro Hofflinger; Paul T. von Hippel – Sociology of Education, 2020
Debates in education policy draw on different theories about how to raise children's achievement. The "school competition" theory holds that achievement rises when students can choose among competing schools. The "school resources" theory holds that achievement rises with schools' resources per student. The "family…
Descriptors: School Choice, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Achievement
Alvaro Hofflinger; Paul T. von Hippel – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Debates in education policy draw on different theories about how to raise children's achievement. The "school competition" theory holds that achievement rises when families can choose among competing schools. The school resource theory holds that achievement rises with school spending and resources that spending can buy. The "family…
Descriptors: School Choice, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Achievement
Shibo, Margaret Nekesa – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to compare the influence of management styles of head teacher's on pupils' performance in private and public primary schools in Nakuru municipality at Kenya Certificate of Primary Education level. The population comprised of teachers and head teachers in public primary schools. The study adopted the ex post facto…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Questionnaires, Interviews
Yong, Guo; Wenhao, Cheng – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This article explores the establishment of a City Governance Index to evaluate the levels of governance of cities. We identified seven key dimensions of governance and then divided each of them into four stages: input, mechanism, result and effect. Each dimension/stage mix is correlated with indicators that can be measured with both objective and…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Foreign Countries, Governance, Municipalities
Rezvani, Mohammad Reza; Mansourian, Hossain; Sattari, Mohammad Hossain – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Quality of urban life (QOUL) has become an important field within urban studies. The increased level of attention to this topic is due to the increasing importance of QoL studies in monitoring public policies and in the role they can play as effective tools in urban management and planning. The main objective of this study is to measure the QOUL…
Descriptors: Well Being, Family (Sociological Unit), Questionnaires, Urban Planning
Sant'Anna, Annibal Parracho; de Araujo Ribeiro, Rodrigo Otavio; Dutt-Ross, Steven – Social Indicators Research, 2011
A new form of composition of the indicators employed to generate the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is presented here. This form of composition is based on the assumption that random errors affect the measurement of each indicator. This assumption allows for replacing the vector of evaluations according to each indicator by vectors…
Descriptors: Probability, Municipalities, Social Indicators, International Organizations
Liao, Pei-shan – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This study explores the consistency between objective indicators and subjective perceptions of quality of life in a ranking of survey data for cities and counties in Taiwan. Data used for analysis included the Statistical Yearbook of Hsiens and Municipalities and the Survey on Living Conditions of Citizens in Taiwan, both given for the year 2000.…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Municipalities, Females, Safety