Assessing educational practices: the contribution of economics

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 o...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] MIT Press [u.a.] 1996
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Item Description:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Physical Description:VIII, 283 S.
ISBN:0262023989
9780262519694