Production function applications to improve the efficiency of educational programs require identification of inputs and outputs and the establishment of a data bank to provide information on input and output variables. This generalizable input identification model organizes inputs for systems analysis at various levels of inputs and provides a…

This report explores some techniques that could assist educational managers in their attempts to arrive at more optimal input and output mixes. Following a review of the literature on input-output analyses in education and a description of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment Program (the basis of the present study), an empirical…

This monograph summarizes and evaluates "educational production function analyses"--studies of the relation between inputs and outputs in an education system--in order to aid in educational manpower policy making. In addition, data from New York state school districts and from a large national sample of high school students is subjected to…

Papers presented at the Conference include: "Biopsy of an Educational Growth" (J.R. Harsh), "Performance Contracting--The Dallas Experiment" (D.R. Waldrip), "Teaching Performance Tests at Three Levels of Accountability" (W.J. Popham), "Problems of Implementing the Writing of Behavioral Objectives" (R.M. Carson), "Program Planning Impact…