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van der Gaag, Jacques; Abetti, Pauline – Brookings Institution, 2011
This policy brief outlines how national education accounts (NEAs) are created, and why they are a vast improvement over current financial tracking systems in the education sector. Examples from the health sector illustrate the benefits of national accounts for improving public services, and their ubiquity highlights the poor state of affairs of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Health Services
Copa, George H. – 1971
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…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Educational Programs
Ohio Board of Regents, Columbus. Management Improvement Program. – 1973
This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. Chapter I is introductory and discusses the role of program budgeting in higher education, its objectives, management, and development. Chapter II presents the steps to be taken in developing a program budget--identifying goals and objectives,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Administrator Guides, Bibliographies
Hartman, William T.; And Others – 1984
To investigate school districts' responses to fiscal constraint, this study examined the relationship between districts' expenditures per student and allocations of funds to instructional, support, and administrative costs. Budget allocations, as indicators of the districts' priorities, were compared for 1978-79 and 1981-82 in 46 Oregon school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Financial Problems
Cohn, Elchanan; Millman, Stephen D. – 1974
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…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Heim, John; Perl, Lewis – 1974
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness