What Are the Effective Public Schools? Insights from New South Wales' Secondary Schools Using a Stochastic Frontier Analysis with a Panel Dataset

Autor/inn/en	Dancer, Diane; Blackburn, Vincent
Titel	What Are the Effective Public Schools? Insights from New South Wales' Secondary Schools Using a Stochastic Frontier Analysis with a Panel Dataset
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Education, 61 (2017) 2, S.141-163 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-9441
DOI	10.1177/0004944117713555
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; School Effectiveness; Efficiency; Academic Achievement; Socioeconomic Status; Secondary Schools; Measurement Techniques; Grade 10; Grade 12; Geographic Regions; School Districts; Admission Criteria; Teacher Salaries; Expenditure per Student; Scores; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schuleffizienz; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Schulleistung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sekundarschule; Messtechnik; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; School district; Schulbezirk; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis, this article examines the efficiency and effectiveness of financial inputs and demographic data for educational outputs as measured by the Year 12 results for New South Wales secondary schools using a panel dataset from 2005 to 2010. Effective schools, in these analyses, are those that have higher Year 12 results than expected given their students' prior performance and socio-economic status as well as financial inputs. Results indicate that prior learning achievement in Year 10 has a large, significant and positive impact on the current Year 12 results. Using a quadrant method, for each school, the efficiency score and the median Year 12 result are plotted separately for each of the three regions across New South Wales and a further quadrant plot is presented for the four Metropolitan districts in Sydney. Overall 37.5 per cent of schools are efficient and effective schools and 30 per cent are neither efficient nor effective. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01