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Table 1 : Correlations Between Expenditures per Student and Student Performance on MMAT Achievement Tests
Table 7 : Correlations Between Instructional Expenditures and Selected Achievement Variables in Ohio Database with Outliers Removed 1989-1990.
Why Production Function Analysis is Irrelevant in Policy Deliberations Concerning Educational Funding Equity
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January 1993

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Jim C. Fortune

Hanushek and Walberg use production function methodology to contend that there is no relationship between school expenditures and student achievement. Production function methodology uses correlational methods to demonstrate relationships between input and output in an economic system. These correlational methods may serve to hide rather than reveal these relationships. In this paper threats to the validity of these correlational methods for analysis of expenditure-achievement data are discussed and an alternative method of investigation is proposed. The proposed method is illustrated using data from two states (Ohio and Missouri). The method demonstrates relationships between expenditures and achievement that were overlooked by the production function method.

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... The existing research focuses on the investment of financial power in education and the distribution of educational resources. These aspects have achieved certain results but there are still several problems (Card & Krueger, 1996;Pritchett & Fulmer, 1997;Hanushek, 1997;Fortune, 1993;Hodas, 1993;Levin, 1993;Colbert, Reuven & Levary, 2000;Breu & Raba, 1994;Izadi, Johnes, Oskrochi & Crouchley, 2002): (1) The research basically takes compulsory education as the object, which is more comprehensive, but it also results in the lack of research on the measurement index system and method of compulsory education resource allocation balance; ...

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Method and Application of Equilibrium Measurement of Compulsory Education Resource Allocation Based on the Gini Coefficient
Why Production Function Analysis is Irrelevant in Policy Deliberations Concerning Educational Funding Equity

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