ERIC Number: EJ1220617
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 9
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What Is the Potential for Applying Cost-Utility Analysis to Facilitate Evidence-Based Decision Making in Schools?
Hollands, Fiona; Pan, Yilin; Escueta, Maya
Educational Researcher, v48 n5 p287-295 Jun-Jul 2019
Education decision makers routinely make choices among programs and strategies to implement. Policy demands increasingly require that such decisions are based on evidence regarding program effectiveness at improving student outcomes. However, research evidence is but one of the considerations that practitioners must juggle, along with local conditions, capacity, resource availability, and stakeholder values. We investigated the feasibility of applying a multicriteria decision-making framework based on cost-utility analysis to facilitate evidence-based decisions by educators. Working with a total of 183 aspiring school leaders in class settings, we determined to what extent they could implement the initial steps of the framework. We subsequently invited three educators to apply the full framework to substantive decisions in their schools and report the results.
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Stakeholders, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, Assistant Principals, Teacher Leadership
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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