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Direct linkMartínez Abad, Fernando; Chaparro Caso López, Alicia A. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
In light of the emergence of statistical analysis techniques based on data mining in education sciences, and the potential they offer to detect non-trivial information in large databases, this paper presents a procedure used to detect factors linked to academic achievement in large-scale assessments. The study is based on a non-experimental,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Pantuosco, Louis J.; Ullrich, Laura D. – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
Using a reduced form version of a theoretical expansion of Hoxby's (1996) education production model, we investigate whether bargaining teachers unions are a boon or a bust to the economy of the state. We anticipate teachers, being in the public sector veiled from competition, are less likely to be efficient. Yet, their product, education,…
Descriptors: Productivity, Unions, Public Sector, Collective Bargaining
Breton, Theodore R. – Education Economics, 2010
This paper uses a new data-set for cumulative national investment in formal schooling and a new instrument for schooling to estimate the national return on investment in 61 countries. These estimates are combined with data on the private rate of return on investment in schooling to estimate the external rate of return. In 1990 the external rate of…
Descriptors: Income, Educational Benefits, Outcomes of Education, Educational Assessment
Spellman, William Eugene – 1970
The objective of this study was to quantify the occupational structure of the Kansas economy and to develop a methodology for forecasting occupational requirements in 1980 for the State. The empirical results of this study are designed to serve as a basis for manpower planning. The Kansas input-output model was employed to project the output…
Descriptors: Economics, Industrial Personnel, Input Output Analysis, Labor Needs
Download full textGarner, William T. – 1971
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the problems and prospects of applying production function or input-output analysis to the process of schooling. The cognitive aspect of schooling is discussed here and is restricted to those aspects readily measured by achievement tests. It is argued that education production function studies should…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development, Economic Research
Freeman, Vera E.; Hatley, Richard V. – 1981
Missouri requires the testing of all eighth grade students on their competence in reading and language arts, mathematics, and government and economics. This statewide assessment is referred to as the Missouri Basic Essential Skills Test (BEST) and has been given in the spring of each year since 1978. A study was undertaken to determine which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Characteristics, Educational Environment
