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Gamble, James G.; Lee, Robert – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study compared time required for evaluation of 468 academic group practice outpatients by surgeon and resident with that required for 216 patients seen by the surgeon alone. On average, 24.2 minutes were added for resident examination and discussion, suggesting a time cost for both patient and surgeon. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Costs, Efficiency, Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education
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Rapala, Michele Merlo; Brady, Susan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1990
Investigates the basis of short-term memory deficits for children with reading disability and explores the origin of developmental verbal memory span increases. Finds a strong relationship between efficiency of phonological processes and capacity of verbal memory but no relationship between phonological processing and nonverbal memory. (RS)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Disabilities, Efficiency, Primary Education
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Moody, P. J. – Physics Education, 1998
An investigation was conducted of the relative drag experienced by different types of tea/coffee stirrers to make deductions about their stirring efficiencies. Experiments compared the stirring performances of convex and concave sides of a plastic teaspoon with the performance of a commercial stirrer. The performance of the spoon exceeded that of…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Science), Efficiency, Fluid Mechanics, Force
Wood, Lonnie H. – School Business Affairs, 1998
When Governor Roy Romer challenged Colorado's 20 largest districts to undergo performance audits, 12 responded. Consultants recommended that districts provide more market-sensitive salaries, privatize certain functions, cross-train personnel, and create job flexibility. Districts can improve overall efficiency by generating accurate operational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Communication Problems, Consultants, Cost Effectiveness
Graham, Kathe D.; Vaughan, Paula J. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1998
Describes the development and implementation of a small-dollar procurement card program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, detailing establishment of policies and procedures, adaptation to different departments, transaction review system, card controls, piloting, measures of program success, and specific benefits realized with the new system.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Costs, Credit Cards, Efficiency
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Peternick, Lauri; Sherman, Joel D.; Guarnera, John – Journal of Education Finance, 1999
Reviews Ohio's data-collection process and makes recommendations for developing a school-level data-collection system that gives stakeholders a clearer picture of resource-allocation/utilization patterns and of school operations' adequacy and efficiency. Various process and methodological issues must be tackled before instituting such systems. (35…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Dunn, Randy J. – Journal of Education Finance, 1999
Reviews the nature of rural education and meanings of efficiency as seen in finance-litigation literature. Describes litigation in five rural states (Arkansas, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, West Virginia), highlighting interpretations of the "thorough and efficient" clause within these states' constitutions. Rural schools' small size and…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform
Cook, Keith – Perspectives, 1999
Compares approaches and trends in lifelong learning in Britain, Sweden, and Germany. The centrally planned Swedish approach increasingly needs to curb public expenditure. The German experience, an integrated partnership between the state and the private sector, is particularly sensitive to downturns in the economic cycle. The British approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Efficiency, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Blustain, Harvey – Business Officer, 1998
Examines administrative processes in higher education institutions, focusing on the different core processes within an institution and the creation of structures to make them more efficient and productive. Proposes a framework of four process-related activities benchmarking, identifying best practices, redesign, and organization alignment to…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, College Administration, Efficiency
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Forsyth, Patrick B.; Tallerico, Marilyn – Education and Urban Society, 1998
Reflects on the dominant idea in this issue that efficiency and productivity criteria are the basis for educational accountability policy, and relates this to leadership of urban schools. Policy makers should be held accountable for knowing the credible research that informs their decisions. (MMU)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ball, Stephen J. – British Educational Research Journal, 1997
Undertakes two exercises: (1) argues that the public sector has been transformed from a Keynsian Welfare State to a Schumpeterian Workfare State, and (2) examines educational researchers' conception of and engagement with social policy. Observes a tension in education policy research between commitments to pursue efficiency and social justice.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Efficiency
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Anderson, Lascelles; Walberg, Herbert J.; Weinstein, Thomas – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1998
Analyzes overall effectiveness and efficiency of Chicago public elementary schools, evaluating performance changes following fundamental school reforms of 1988-89. Some schools are effective regarding student achievement at certain points in time; others are efficient in adding value (improving disadvantaged students' performance). Some have both…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Program Evaluation
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Johnstone, D. Bruce; Maloney, Patricia A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
The learning productivity approach to higher education attempts to gain productivity, not so much by reducing or cheapening inputs but by enhancing higher education's major output: student learning. In the learning productivity perspective, the principal problem is in teaching and learning inefficiencies such as excessive nonlearning time,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Efficiency
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Daneshvary, Nasser; Clauretie, Terrence M. – Economics of Education Review, 2001
Explores the cost savings (efficiency) of a year-round schedule versus a traditional 9-month schedule for 115 schools in Clark County, Nevada, including real-estate capital in the estimated cost functions. The 26 year-round schools experienced efficiencies in cost of capital and other areas, such as operations. (Contains 15 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency, Elementary Education
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Vreugdenhil, Coby; Doreleijers, Theo A. H.; Vermeiren, Robert; Wouters, Luuk F. J. M.; Brink, Wim Van Den – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004
Objective: To determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among incarcerated male adolescents and to investigate the influence of psychopathology on allocation to either plain detention or detention with compulsory treatment. Method: A cross-sectional study of a representative sample (N = 204) of incarcerated boys aged 12 to 18, using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, North Americans
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