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Rob J. Gruijters; Mohammed A. Abango; Leslie Casely-Hayford – Comparative Education Review, 2024
In this study, we take stock of fee-free secondary education (FSE) initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa and review their impact on equitable access and achievement, as well as their cost-effectiveness. We begin by discussing the theoretical arguments for and against the abolition of secondary school fees. Second, we examine aggregate statistics on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Access to Education, Cost Effectiveness
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Luis Antonio Andrade Rosas; Perla Lomelí – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
When workers hear about a possible promotion, it is common for them to get training, and they can do so through education. However, there is the possibility that the worker needs to receive a salary according to the knowledge acquired in such training. In this study, considering a population of employed workers with incomplete secondary school, we…
Descriptors: Costs, Student Costs, Paying for College, Cost Effectiveness
Dylan Raymond-Edward Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This mixed methods dissertation investigates the impact that cost-disaggregating tools like the Delaware Cost Study (DCS) have on the expenditure patterns at large, public research universities. It draws on public budgeting and higher education finance literature to form a theory of action that hypothesizes that expense management at such…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Money Management, Higher Education, Public Colleges
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Gustavo Ferro; Nicolás Gatti – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2024
Knowledge applied to innovation is increasingly recognized as an explanatory factor of economic growth. Innovation derives from applying knowledge to generate new products or processes. National Innovation Systems (NIS) performs as the formal or informal network of people within institutions interacting to produce and apply knowledge to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Economic Development, Costs, Cost Effectiveness
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Christopher Ward; Piper Rodd – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Vocational education practitioners must participate in professional development (PD) activities so they may implement contemporary teaching practices to support their students. Long-term, social types of activity are best because they benefit individuals and groups of practitioners and the training organisations for which they work. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Vocational Education Teachers, Cost Effectiveness
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Katherine A. Hicks; Parinaz Ghaswalla; Justin Carrico; Seri Anderson; Patricia Novy; Cosmina Hogea; Mary S. Hayney – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We developed an Excel-based cost calculator to assess the economic burden of university-based "Neisseria meningitidis" serogroup B (MenB) outbreaks. Participants: Hypothetical university with 6,354 students. Methods: Total societal costs of outbreak were estimated for three MenB pre-matriculation immunization…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Immunization Programs, Economic Impact, School Policy
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Shand, Robert; Bowden, A. Brooks – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
The economic evaluation of educational policies and programs employing the ingredients method for cost, cost-effectiveness, or benefit-cost analysis is no exception to the critique that economic models require an untenable number of assumptions. Educational economists must make assumptions due to two sources of uncertainty: model uncertainty, as…
Descriptors: Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research, Economic Research
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Naveen Gudigantala; Vijay Mehrotra – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
Founded in 2006, Zillow established itself as the leading online real estate marketplace. In 2018, Zillow launched Zillow Offers, a new business that purchased and sold homes. Zillow Offers provided home sellers with a faster purchase process than traditional realtors by gathering data from sellers online and making offers immediately, a process…
Descriptors: Housing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Web Sites
Education Resource Strategies, 2024
In an era of unparalleled disruption and low teacher satisfaction, residency programs offer a critical opportunity to reimagine what's possible for our nation's teachers. These programs have been shown to help districts fill hard-to-staff subject areas, boost teacher retention rates, and nurture more diverse pipelines of educators. And when new…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Experiential Learning
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Barbara Kissa; Zoe Georganta; Elias Gounopoulos; Fotis Kitsios – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Over the past decade, the financial crisis has led to reduced government funding for academic libraries in Greece. Now more than ever, it is imperative for library managers to improve their knowledge and understanding of cost behavior, in order to effectively deliver high quality services at decreasing costs. To do so, they need to apply…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Library Services
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Gretchen Scheibel; Tyler A. Hicks; Kathleen N. Zimmerman; Jesse R. Pace – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
Intensive interventions are time- and resource-demanding interventions designed to be implemented with a single student with unique learning needs. Economic evaluation provides a methodology for evaluating the time and material resource costs of implementing these interventions to provide detailed feasibility information for educators considering…
Descriptors: Intervention, Cost Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Time on Task
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Chris Percy; Tristram Hooley – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Return on investment (ROI) has become part of the policymaking toolkit, particularly pertinent for activities like school-based career guidance deemed optional by some policymakers. There are institutions supporting ideal ROI methods alongside an academic critique, but little research on how ROI has been applied in practice in a guidance setting.…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Outcomes of Education
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Mohammad Ali Zolfigol; Saeid Azizian; Morteza Torabi; Meysam Yarie; Behrouz Notash – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
In chemical synthesis, obtaining product(s) with high purity is a crucial issue from both academic and industrial viewpoints. Higher purity of the product(s) means higher quality and a lower chemical production costs. Sometimes, purification and separation processes are very laborious and lead to significant impacts on the final price of the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Costs, Industry
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Stephen M. Leach; Fiona M. Hollands; Eva Stone; Robert Shand; Laura Head; Yixin Wang; Bo Yan; Dena Dossett; Florence Chang; Yuan Chang Ginsberg; Yilin Pan – Prevention Science, 2023
Despite increasing reliance on licensed practical nurses (LPNs) to provide health services in schools, we do not know whether this is a cost-effective prevention strategy against student absenteeism. Therefore, we evaluated the costs and effectiveness of an LPN-based school nursing program for improving attendance and chronic absenteeism at a…
Descriptors: School Health Services, School Nurses, Cost Effectiveness, Attendance
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de Amesti, José; Bordón, Paola; Bolli, Thomas – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
This paper analyses the costs and benefits of dual training programmes for companies in Chile. The model has three main components: (1) the costs that arise during the programme (training, student labour, administrative, and educational supplies), (2) the benefits that companies receive during the programme in terms of student's productivity, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Costs
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