Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research: 2005 Yearbook

ISBN-13: 9781596670068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 224 str.

Leanna Stiefel; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Ross Rubenstein

Opis

This yearbook focuses on alternative ways to measure how well schools are educating their students, delivering what parents want, and using resources efficiently.

Spis treści

Contributors and Editors
1 Measuring School Efficiency: What Have We Learned?
2 Adjusted Measures of School Performance: A Cross-State Perspective
3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Measuring School Efficiency Using School Production Functions
4 Measuring School Performance Using Cost Functions
5 The Reliability of School Efficiency Measures Using Data Development Analysis
6 Measuring School Performance: Promises and Pitfalls
7 Teacher Accountability Measures and Links to Learning
8 Revealed-Preference Measures of School Quality
9 Rethinking Educational Productivity and its Measurement: A Discussion of Stochastic Frontier Analysis Within a Budget-Maximizing Framework
Index

O autorze

Steifel, Leanna