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Peer reviewedWeiss, Edmond H. – Planning and Changing, 1974
Suggests that evaluations of educational input-output studies frequently overlook some basic characteristics of the nation's schools as a whole, which, when conjoined with economic theory, permit viewing the results of these studies as neither counter intuitive nor damaging to the education profession. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Economics, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Download full textBessent, Authella; Bessent, E. Wailand – 1981
The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model, a conceptual model for measuring productivity and efficiency, is presented and applied in this report. First, the DEA model is described, and three of its properties that make it particularly useful are identified; i.e., it measures efficiency of units relative to each other rather than to absolute…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Economics, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods
