Assessing educational practices :
Assessing educational practices : the contribution of economics /
edited by William E. Becker and William J. Baumol.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1996.
- 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Economist's approaches / Some economies of precollege teaching / Making U.S. schools competitive / The Economics of market choice and at-risk students / Incentives to study and the organization of secondary instruction / The Economic return to school quality / The Value of repeat data for individual students / Methods of teacher remuneration: merit pay and career ladders / Teacher salaries and teacher retention / William J. Baumol and William E. Becker -- Frederick Flyer and Sherwin Rosen -- Rendigs Fels -- Masato Aoki and Susan F. Feiner -- John H. Bishop -- David Card and Alan B. Krueger -- Charles R. Link and James G. Mulligan -- Elchanan Cohn -- Peter Dolton and Wilbert van der Klaauw.
Assessing Educational Practices introduces the nonspecialist to the research methods used by economists in studies of educational practices and institutions. The nine chapters explain the ways economists think about teachers' salaries, student achievement, class size, school organization, and other subjects of current debate in education. Each author demonstrates how methods used in economics can be applied to measure the success and failure of educational practices.
0585133093 9780585133096
Educational evaluation--United States.
Education--Economic aspects--United States.
Educational productivity--United States.
Human capital--United States.
Teachers--Salaries, etc.--United States.
Econometrics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
Econometrics.
Education--Economic aspects.
Educational evaluation.
Educational productivity.
Human capital.
Teachers--Salaries, etc.
Onderwijs.
Studieresultaten.
Onderwijsevaluatie.
Salarissen.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
LB2822.75 / .A86 1996eb
338.4/561370/973
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Economist's approaches / Some economies of precollege teaching / Making U.S. schools competitive / The Economics of market choice and at-risk students / Incentives to study and the organization of secondary instruction / The Economic return to school quality / The Value of repeat data for individual students / Methods of teacher remuneration: merit pay and career ladders / Teacher salaries and teacher retention / William J. Baumol and William E. Becker -- Frederick Flyer and Sherwin Rosen -- Rendigs Fels -- Masato Aoki and Susan F. Feiner -- John H. Bishop -- David Card and Alan B. Krueger -- Charles R. Link and James G. Mulligan -- Elchanan Cohn -- Peter Dolton and Wilbert van der Klaauw.
Assessing Educational Practices introduces the nonspecialist to the research methods used by economists in studies of educational practices and institutions. The nine chapters explain the ways economists think about teachers' salaries, student achievement, class size, school organization, and other subjects of current debate in education. Each author demonstrates how methods used in economics can be applied to measure the success and failure of educational practices.
0585133093 9780585133096
Educational evaluation--United States.
Education--Economic aspects--United States.
Educational productivity--United States.
Human capital--United States.
Teachers--Salaries, etc.--United States.
Econometrics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
Econometrics.
Education--Economic aspects.
Educational evaluation.
Educational productivity.
Human capital.
Teachers--Salaries, etc.
Onderwijs.
Studieresultaten.
Onderwijsevaluatie.
Salarissen.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
LB2822.75 / .A86 1996eb
338.4/561370/973