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What We Can Learn from the Use of Student Data in Efficiency Analysis within the Context of Higher Education?
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Barra, Cristian; Zotti, Roberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
The main purpose of the paper is to estimate the efficiency of a big public university in Italy using individual student-level data, modeling exogenous variables in human capital formation through a heteroscedastic stochastic frontier approach. Specifically, a production function for tertiary education has been estimated with emphasis on…
Descriptors: Efficiency, School Statistics, Student Records, Information Utilization
Private School Enrollment in an Italian Region after Implementing a Change in the Voucher Policy
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Barbieri, Gianna; Murtinu, Samuele – Journal of School Choice, 2015
This article estimates the effect of an administrative change in a voucher policy implemented by an Italian Regional government. The voucher was initiated in 2000, and is intended to help families that want to enroll their children in private schools. In 2008, the policy was changed, making the administrative procedure required for obtaining the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Enrollment Rate, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Managing Student Learning: Schools as Multipliers of Intangible Resources
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Paletta, Angelo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The conceptual categories that underlie the business analysis of intellectual capital are relevant to providing an explanation of school performance. By gathering data on student learning, this research provides empirical evidence for the use of school results as an accurate indicator of the effectiveness of the management of public education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Accountability, Public Education
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1890-'91. Volume 1. Containing Part I
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1894
Following an introduction, Volume 1 of this year's annual report from the Commissioner of Education contains the first of three parts. Part I includes chapters on: statistics of state common school systems; secondary education in New Zealand; education in France; educational systems of England and Scotland, and operations for 1890-'91; provision…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Industrial Arts
New Approaches to Secondary Education: Italian Problems and Prospects. Report on a Workshop (Frascati, Italy, May 4-8, 1970).
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1971
This report summarizes an international workshop held in 1970 to consider new approaches to Italian secondary education. At the conference, educational experts from the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, as well as two members of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation met with 23…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1888-89. Volume I
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1891
Volume I of the 1888-1889 "Report of the Commissioner of Education" is in the two parts and begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction which includes general statistics; grade of instruction; school property; education in the south; comparison of German, French, and American schools; course of study; the educational systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, School Statistics, Educational Facilities