Research Catalog

Title

Improving measurement of productivity in higher education : Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity, Conceptual Framework and Data Needs / Teresa A. Sullivan, Christopher Mackie, William F. Massy, and Esha Sinha, editors.

Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity, Conceptual Framework and Data Needs.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, ©2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Sullivan, Teresa A., 1949-
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Center for Education. Board on Testing and Assessment.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

Description

xv, 210 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and through their impact on future growth; federal and state governments support teaching and research with billions of taxpayers' dollars; and individuals, communities, and the nation gain from the learning and innovation that occur in higher education. In the current environment of increasing tuition and shrinking public funds, a sense of urgency has emerged to better track the performance of colleges and universities in the hope that their costs can be contained without compromising quality or accessibility. Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education presents an analytically well-defined concept of productivity in higher education and recommends empirically valid and operationally practical guidelines for measuring it. In addition to its obvious policy and research value, improved measures of productivity may generate insights that potentially lead to enhanced departmental, institutional, or system educational processes. Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education constructs valid productivity measures to supplement the body of information used to guide resource allocation decisions at the system, state, and national levels and to assist policymakers who must assess investments in higher education against other compelling demands on scarce resources. By portraying the productive process in detail, this report will allow stakeholders to better understand the complexities of--and potential approaches to--measuring institution, system and national-level performance in higher education."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Educational accountability > United States
• Educational productivity > United States > Measurement
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States

Note

• "Committee on National Statistics, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Contents

The importance of measuring productivity in higher education -- Defining productivity for higher education -- Why measurement of higher education productivity is difficult -- Advancing the conceptual framework -- Recommendations for creating and extending the measurement framework -- Implementation and data recommendations.

ISBN

• 9780309257749 (pbk.)
• 0309257743 (pbk.)
• 9780309257756 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012040483

OCLC

• ocn800024894
• 800024894
• SCSB-5670512

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries