This year is free from formal examinations and allows students to experience a wide range
of educational inputs, including work experience.
Those extra dollars would pay the salaries of additional classroom teachers or buy any number of valuable
educational inputs such as computers, guidance counselors, or teaching coaches.
In doing so, we have controlled for possible effects of differences
in educational inputs such as class sizes, availability of materials, and aggregate expenditure per student in the country.
This is evident in the policy of the government, which pays greater attention to
trivial educational inputs, such as common uniforms for pupils at the expense of regular payment of teachers salaries.
The CFE decision found only that students in the New York City lacked
specific educational inputs and outputs and that this was linked to funding inadequacy in those schools.
Textbooks are one of the most widely
used educational inputs, but remarkably little is known about their effects on student learning.
The politically inconvenient conclusion that family background explained more about a child's achievement than did school resources ran contrary to contemporary priorities, which were focused on
improving educational inputs such as school expenditure levels, class size, and teacher quality.
The key document in framing the crisis this time was the Coleman Report, which highlighted the ways in
which educational inputs did not translate into educational outputs and thus motivated legislators to see schooling as a production function that needed to be made more efficient.
We examine the relationship
between educational inputs — primarily pupilteacher ratios — and school outcomes in South Africa immediately before the end of apartheid government.
Represented the Congressman's office to 80 school districts, gathering
key educational input - giving voice to Superintendents.
Given the time constraints, Coleman used the proportion of variance in student achievement associated with
various educational inputs — such as schools, teacher characteristics, student - reported parental characteristics, and peer characteristics — as a type of divining rod for identifying promising targets for intervention.
How far would states have to go to equalize
these educational inputs?
Their emphasis was on providing «productive learning conditions for all students in each school» using measures of
educational inputs and outcomes based on eight requirements for effective accountability: