Using Resource and Cost Considerations to Support Educational Evaluation: Six Domains
Using Resource and Cost Considerations to Support Educational Evaluation: Six Domains
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利用资源和成本考虑来支持教育评估：六个领域
DOI：
10.3102/0013189x18814447
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
A. Brooks Bowden
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作者：
C. Belfield;A. Brooks Bowden
成本、成本效益和效益成本分析是经济学家用来评估公共政策的方法。从本质上讲，这些方法依赖于影响评价，即对功效和有效性的研究。然而，在大多数教育研究中，这些成本和影响评估是分开进行的。这种分离造成了方法论上的缺陷，并破坏了教育研究对决策的贡献。在本文中，我们确定了教育研究评估的关键领域，我们相信，如果资源和成本分析更直接地结合起来，这些领域将得到加强。这些领域涉及结果规范，治疗对比，实施保真度，中介的作用，测试的力量和荟萃分析。对于每个领域，我们提供了一个案例研究示例，说明这些成本分析如何补充和增强当前教育评估的研究实践。经济学家和教育研究者之间更多的互动对双方都有好处。
Cost, cost-effectiveness, and benefit-cost analysis are methods used by economists to evaluate public policies. Essentially, these methods rely on impact evaluations, that is, research studies of efficacy and effectiveness. However, in most research in education, these cost and impact evaluations are performed separately. This separation creates methodological deficiencies and undermines the contribution of educational research to decision making. In this article, we identify key domains of educational research evaluations that, we believe, would be enhanced if resource and cost analyses were integrated more directly. These domains relate to outcome specification, treatment contrast, implementation fidelity, the role of mediators, power of the test, and meta-analysis. For each domain, we provide a case study example of how these cost analyses can complement and augment current research practices in educational evaluation. More interaction between economists and education researchers would be beneficial for both groups.