| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Economist's approaches / William J. Baumol and William E. Becker -- Some economies of precollege teaching / Frederick Flyer and Sherwin Rosen -- Making U.S. schools competitive / Rendigs Fels -- Economics of market choice and at-risk students / Masato Aoki and Susan F. Feiner -- Incentives to study and the organization of secondary instruction / John H. Bishop -- Economic return to school quality / David Card and Alan B. Krueger -- Value of repeat data for individual students / Charles R. Link and James G. Mulligan -- Methods of teacher remuneration: merit pay and career ladders / Elchanan Cohn -- Teacher salaries and teacher retention / Peter Dolton and Wilbert van der Klaauw. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Educational evaluation -- United States.
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Educational evaluation. |
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United States. |
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Education -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Education -- Economic aspects. |
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Educational productivity -- United States.
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Educational productivity. |
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Human capital -- United States.
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Human capital. |
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Teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
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Teachers -- Salaries, etc. |
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Econometrics.
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Econometrics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Becker, William E.
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Baumol, William J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Assessing educational practices. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996 0262023989 (DLC) 95019803 (OCoLC)32549105 |
| ISBN |
0585133093 (electronic book) |
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9780585133096 (electronic book) |
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0262023989 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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