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Author : James S. Catterall
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Large-scale Assessments written by James S. Catterall and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry M. Levin
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 148338179X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Economic Evaluation in Education written by Henry M. Levin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.
Author : Michael B. Kane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135452415
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Implementing Performance Assessment written by Michael B. Kane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the commitment to performance assessments as a strategy of reform has increased across the nation, so has the controversy surrounding the purposes, development, implementation, and effects of alternative forms of assessment. One of the first of its kind, this edited volume provides an incisive and comprehensive account of the issues pertaining to performance assessments. The 10 papers comprising the volume were originally written to establish a conceptual framework for a three-year U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement sponsored national study of performance assessments. Written by leading experts in the field, the papers explicate the central issues regarding the development, implementation, and utility of performance assessments. The topics covered by the papers include: * a discussion of contemporary as well as historical events in the performance assessment movement; * technical characteristics of performance assessments, including reliability, validity, generalizability, and calibration; * conceptualization and calculation of the costs of performance assessments; * the implications of performance assessments on students who have traditionally done less well in American schools, including racial and linguistic minorities; * the fit between performance assessments and organizational change in education; and * the utilization of performance assessment as an instrument of state policy. Readers will find the policy and technical issues covered in this volume to be useful from a variety of academic, research, and policy perspectives including conceptualizing and implementing performance assessments.
Author : Henry M. Levin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761919346
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Cost-Effectiveness Analysis written by Henry M. Levin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-effectiveness analysis allows researchers and evaluators to determine if a particular program or policy has attained maximum effectiveness for a given budget. This book introduces cost-effectiveness analysis and gives readers step-by-step methods to plan and implement a cost-analysis study. It explains and illustrates the four major techniques : cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-utility, and cost-feasibility. It discusses choice of analysis, implementation, the nature of costs (including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs); measuring effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and, lastly the difficulties of including cost evaluations in the decision making process. Each chapter ends with exercises that enable readers to sharpen their ability to evaluate policy options and program effectiveness.
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Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Standard Setting for Large-scale Assessments of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cresswell John
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264248374
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)
Download or read book PISA A Review of International Large-Scale Assessments in Education Assessing Component Skills and Collecting Contextual Data written by Cresswell John and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD has initiated PISA for Development (PISA-D) in response to the rising need of developing countries to collect data about their education systems and the capacity of their student bodies.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309293227
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Knowing What Students Know written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.
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Total Pages : 1786 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.D. Bentkover
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400945248
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Benefits Assessment written by J.D. Bentkover and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive Order requires Federal agencies to perform benefits assessments of pro posed major regulations and prohibits them from taking regulatory action unless potential benefits exceed potential costs to society. Heightened interest in benefits assessment methods has in tum given rise to greater recognition of the inherent difficulties in performing such assess ments. For example, many benefits that are intuitively felt to be most important are also among the most difficult to measure. It can be difficult to identify the full range of both benefits and costs. The choice of an appro priate discount rate for comparing benefits and costs over time is proble matic. Even when benefits are quantifiable in principle and agreement can be reached on their valuation, required d,ata may not be available. Thus considerable uncertainty is built into most benefit estimates, even when they are based on the best available data. In light of the complexities and difficulties associated with the perform ance of a benefits assessment, this book reviews the current state of theoretical and methodological knowledge in the field. The review is extensive in that it covers over fifty years of research, theoretical develop ment, and practice.
Author : United States Civil Service Commission
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Civil Service Commission written by United States Civil Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group I.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521015073
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group I. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up jointly by UNEP and the World Meteorological Organisation in 1988 to provide periodic scientific analysis of the causes, impacts and possible policy response options to climate change issues. This synthesis report is the 4th and final part of the IPCC's third assessment report, and contains information on nine policy-relevant questions regarding the IPCC's 2001 assessment. It is intended to assist governments, individually and collectively, to formulate appropriate adaptation and mitigation responses to the threat of human-induced climate change.
Author : United States Civil Service Commission
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Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report - United States Civil Service Commission written by United States Civil Service Commission and published by . This book was released on with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 570 pages
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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serves as an index to Eric reports [microform].
Author : Gunnar Eliasson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319669931
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits written by Gunnar Eliasson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military technologies (from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the Swedish combat aircraft, Gripen, in this book Gunnar Eliasson widens the perspective to cover product development across the Swedish defense industry, with an emphasis on regional economic development and macro-economics, inter alia through the involvement of Saab (aircraft) and Kockums (submarines) in partnership ventures in Australia, Norway and Brazil. The volume is organized into four parts. Part one examines the historical transformation of the Swedish economy over the past three centuries from agriculture and raw materials to an advanced industrial economy. Part two presents detailed case studies to illustrate the spillover effects of procurement projects and military-industrial partnerships. Part three explains the spillover phenomenon theoretically within a dynamic micro- to macro-economic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the empirical credibility of model-based economy-wide and dynamic cost-benefit calculations. The book concludes with a section on fostering industrial development through public procurement. The result is a book that will appeal to economists in the industrial economics and management fields; to technical, marketing and purchasing executives in business; and to policy makers in public procurement concerned with innovation and long-run industrial development.
Author : Nancy R. Kingsbury
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143791747X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Aviation Safety written by Nancy R. Kingsbury and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nat. Aviation Oper. Monitoring Serv. (NAOMS), begun by NASA in 1997, aimed to develop a methodology that could be used to survey a wide range of aviation personnel to monitor aviation safety. NASA expected NAOMS surveys to be implemented and to complement existing fed. and industry databases by generating ongoing data to track event rates into the future. The project never met these goals and was curtailed in Jan. 2007. This report answers these questions: (1) What were the nature and history of NASA's NAOMS project? (2) Was the survey planned, designed, and implemented in accordance with generally accepted survey principles? (3) What steps would make a new survey similar to NAOMS better and more useful? Illus.
Author : Borja Gonzalez Reguero
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832511589
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Nature-Based Solutions for Natural Hazards and Climate Change written by Borja Gonzalez Reguero and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James S. Catterall
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Economic Analysis of Testing written by James S. Catterall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the costs and benefits of educational testing holds promise for helping educators and policymakers make decisions about reforming assessment in the '90s. This report examines data from two previous studies: a study on teacher certification testing and a national study on minimum competency testing for high school graduation. Economic analysis forces policy makers to take a hard look at the actual benefits of testing -- its positive motivational outcomes and its potential for discouraging students from finishing their high school education. The study contrasts costs and benefits of traditional standardized tests with performance-based tests.
