This paper provides an extensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It
summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used …

The relationship between school resources and student achievement has been
controversial, in large part because it calls into question a variety of traditional policy …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

A universe of education production function studies was assembled in order to utilize meta-
analytic methods to assess the direction and magnitude of the relations between a variety of …

Educational institutions worldwide are increasingly the subject of analyses aimed at
defining, measuring and improving efficiency. However, despite the importance of efficiency …

Consolidation remains a common policy recommendation of state governments looking to
improve efficiency, especially in rural school districts. However, state policies encouraging …

Researchers using cross-sectional data have failed to produce systematic evidence that
teacher salaries affect student outcomes. These studies generally do not account for non …

La publicación de los resultados de la cuarta oleada del Informe PISA ha vuelto a poner de
relieve la distancia que sigue existiendo entre España y sus principales competidores. El …

Forty years ago, the discipline that we call educational effectiveness and improvement
research (EEI) simply did not exist in a recognisable form. There were some researchers …

This article concerns the effects of poor school funding and child poverty on mathematics
achievement in American schools. A good deal of research and a lot of confusion have …