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  • Notes: Privatized Delivery of Instructional Services for Urban Public School Students Placed at Risk
    Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2000
    Co-Authors: Martha Abele Mac Iver, Sam Stringfield
    Abstract:

    The privatization “revolution” of the last decade of the 20th century has not left public education unchallenged. While much of the recent debate has focused on “school choice” and voucher plans, there has been growing discussion of privatization within public schools. Most studies have noted the lack of evidence of student achievement gains under privatization models. In this research note we evaluate the effectiveness of private delivery of Instructional Services to public school students by analyzing the impact on student achievement of reading and math instruction delivered by a private company in a large urban public school system on the East Coast. Analyses of score data from the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (Fourth Edition) indicate differential effects of Instructional Service delivery by this private company, depending on subject matter (reading vs. math), grade level, and student characteristics (especially gender). The impact on student achievement is particularly notable in mathematics, ...

Thomas A. Deluca - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • K-12 Non-Instructional Service Consolidation: Spending Changes and Scale Economies
    Journal of Education Finance, 2013
    Co-Authors: Thomas A. Deluca
    Abstract:

    Educational policy makers (e.g., legislators, state and local school boards) continue to promote inter-district Service consolidation as one method to reduce operating expenditures citing economies of scale as the source of any savings. This study uses survey data to identify the extent of non-Instructional Service consolidation in Michigan, with these data then merged with financial and other administrative panel data from 2004–2010. Except for a small spike in the number of consolidations in 2009, the annual trend showed no apparent acceleration or deceleration in the pace of Service consolidation. Financially, this study measures and finds non-significant spending reductions associated with the consolidation of Services from the local district to the Educational Service Agency (ESA). Although this is only one of several Service consolidation models, (e.g., local districts sharing Services with each other, local districts sharing Services with municipalities, privatization of Services), this study finds no support for the prediction that consolidating non-Instructional Services significantly decreases Service spending. Conversely, the findings show that consolidating business office Services significantly increases Instructional spending.

  • Spending Changes and Non-Instructional Service Consolidation
    2012
    Co-Authors: Thomas A. Deluca
    Abstract:

    Educational policy makers continue to encourage or require districts to consolidate nonInstructional Services under the expectation that economies of scale will reduce operating expenditures. Unfortunately, there is essentially no empirical evidence on the size or source of cost savings associated with such measures. Using panel data from 2004-2010, this mixed methods study measures and finds few spending reductions associated with the consolidation of Services from the local district to the Educational Service Agency (ESA). Although this is only one of several Service consolidation models, (e.g., local districts sharing Services with each other, local districts sharing Services with municipalities, privatization of Services), this study also finds no support for the contention that the consolidation of non-Instructional Services other than the Business Office results in a statistically significant increase in Instructional spending.

Martha Abele Mac Iver - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Notes: Privatized Delivery of Instructional Services for Urban Public School Students Placed at Risk
    Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2000
    Co-Authors: Martha Abele Mac Iver, Sam Stringfield
    Abstract:

    The privatization “revolution” of the last decade of the 20th century has not left public education unchallenged. While much of the recent debate has focused on “school choice” and voucher plans, there has been growing discussion of privatization within public schools. Most studies have noted the lack of evidence of student achievement gains under privatization models. In this research note we evaluate the effectiveness of private delivery of Instructional Services to public school students by analyzing the impact on student achievement of reading and math instruction delivered by a private company in a large urban public school system on the East Coast. Analyses of score data from the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (Fourth Edition) indicate differential effects of Instructional Service delivery by this private company, depending on subject matter (reading vs. math), grade level, and student characteristics (especially gender). The impact on student achievement is particularly notable in mathematics, ...

Ekpenyong, John Asuquo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Analysis of the quality of educational resources and effective Instructional Service delivery in Nigerian Universities
    2019
    Co-Authors: Mbon, Usen Friday, Omorobi, Garieth Omorobi, Owan, Valentine Joseph, Ekpenyong, John Asuquo
    Abstract:

    This study evaluated the quality of educational resources vis-à-vis effective Instructional Service delivery in Nigerian universities. Particularly, the study was carried out in university of Calabar, using five hundred and nineteen (519) students selected through the simple random sampling technique from the fifteen faculties of the University of Calabar. To achieve the purpose of the study, two hypotheses were formulated. A questionnaire titled quality of educational resources and effectiveness of Instructional Service delivery questionnaire (QEREISDQ) was developed by the researchers, this was subjected to face and content validity by three experts in measurement and evaluation and Administration of Higher education all in Faculty of Education University of Calabar. A pilot test was carried out using forty students from University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom state to establish the reliability of the instrument. Using the Cronbach’s alpha reliability method, the instrument had a reliability coefficient of α=.79-.85. The instrument was administered to the respondents and retrieved with Zero attrition rate. The data collected was analyzed through means, standard deviation, Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. It was revealed among other things that; the quality of educational resources has a significant relationship with effective of Instructional Service delivery, with the quality of lecturers being the strongest predictor of effective Instructional delivery. However, it was also revealed that the quality of library was significantly low and influenced effective Instructional delivery negatively. It was therefore, recommended that government and corporate organizations should provide adequate educational resources and promote viral development programmes for lecturers to enhance effective Instructional delivery in Nigerian universities

Mbon, Usen Friday - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Analysis of the quality of educational resources and effective Instructional Service delivery in Nigerian Universities
    2019
    Co-Authors: Mbon, Usen Friday, Omorobi, Garieth Omorobi, Owan, Valentine Joseph, Ekpenyong, John Asuquo
    Abstract:

    This study evaluated the quality of educational resources vis-à-vis effective Instructional Service delivery in Nigerian universities. Particularly, the study was carried out in university of Calabar, using five hundred and nineteen (519) students selected through the simple random sampling technique from the fifteen faculties of the University of Calabar. To achieve the purpose of the study, two hypotheses were formulated. A questionnaire titled quality of educational resources and effectiveness of Instructional Service delivery questionnaire (QEREISDQ) was developed by the researchers, this was subjected to face and content validity by three experts in measurement and evaluation and Administration of Higher education all in Faculty of Education University of Calabar. A pilot test was carried out using forty students from University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom state to establish the reliability of the instrument. Using the Cronbach’s alpha reliability method, the instrument had a reliability coefficient of α=.79-.85. The instrument was administered to the respondents and retrieved with Zero attrition rate. The data collected was analyzed through means, standard deviation, Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. It was revealed among other things that; the quality of educational resources has a significant relationship with effective of Instructional Service delivery, with the quality of lecturers being the strongest predictor of effective Instructional delivery. However, it was also revealed that the quality of library was significantly low and influenced effective Instructional delivery negatively. It was therefore, recommended that government and corporate organizations should provide adequate educational resources and promote viral development programmes for lecturers to enhance effective Instructional delivery in Nigerian universities