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Kop, Yasar; Tasdan, Murat; Alibeyoglu, Aytekin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The main aim of this study is to reveal classroom teachers' personal value perceptions and the level of their efficiencies. The quantitative research method was used in the research. The target population of the research consisted of 335 classroom teachers in Kars. Multi stage sampling model was selected in order to determine the sampling in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Attitudes, Sampling, Statistical Analysis
Gongjun Xu; Tony Sit; Lan Wang; Chiung-Yu Huang – Grantee Submission, 2017
Biased sampling occurs frequently in economics, epidemiology, and medical studies either by design or due to data collecting mechanism. Failing to take into account the sampling bias usually leads to incorrect inference. We propose a unified estimation procedure and a computationally fast resampling method to make statistical inference for…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Inference, Computation, Generalization
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Mad Ithnin, Salleh; Habidin, Nurul Fadly; Masnan, Abdul Halim; Mamat, Nordin – International Journal of Early Childhood Education and Care, 2016
This study is focused on conceptual paper and the purpose of this study is to conduct an empirical investigation into the Malaysian Preschool institutions, focusing on measuring their technical efficiency and productivity changes. This study is to examine the nature of productivity changes by means of bootstrapped Malmquist TFP indices. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Sampling, Statistical Inference
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Agasisti, Tommaso – European Journal of Education, 2014
Recent policy suggestions from the European Community underlined the importance of "efficiency" and "equity" in the provision of education while, at the same time, the European countries are required to provide their educational services by minimizing the amount of public money devoted to them. In this article, an empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Comparative Analysis, Expenditure per Student
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Gelen, Ismail; Onay, Ihsan; Varol, Volkan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The purpose of this study is to examine the efficiency of "Educational Club Practices" that has been in Elementary School program since 2005-2006, by examining the attitudes of students about "Educational Club Practices". Sample was selected in two steps. First, stratified sampling was employed and then random sampling was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students
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Agasisti, Tommaso – Education Economics, 2013
In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to compute efficiency scores for a sample of Italian schools by employing OECD-PISA2006 data aggregated at school level. Efficiency has been defined as the ability to transform inputs (resources, student background, etc.) into outputs (student achievement). Different versions of the DEA models…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Efficiency, Competition
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Giambona, Fracesca; Vassallo, Erasmo; Vassiliadis, Elli – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
We use the PISA 2006 results to analyse students' proficiency in EU countries with regard to two indexes that represent the home background, viz the educational resources available at home and the family background of students. However, many factors affect proficiency and therefore, using a DEA-bootstrap, we intend to measure the efficiency of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement Techniques, Predictor Variables, Educational Environment
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Altinkurt, Yahya – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2010
The aim of the study is to determine the attitudes of employees of Provincial Directorates of National Education and school administrators towards strategic planning. The research was designed as a survey model study. The population of the research consisted of employees of Provincial Directorate of National Education of Kutahya and school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Sampling, Administrator Attitudes
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Jagero, N.; Ayodo, T. M.; Agak, J. A. – Africa Education Review, 2011
This paper examines the cost effectiveness of educating boarding and day secondary students in Kisumu district in Kenya. The research designs used in this study were descriptive survey and casual comparative designs. The population consisted of five head teachers, 140 form four teachers and 609 form four students. Saturated and systematic random…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Boarding Schools, Day Schools, Foreign Countries