Clive Belfield

Schools in the U.S. face difficult decisions related to scarce resources for every aspect of schooling including safe facilities, qualified teaching staff, curricula, supplemental support services, and health and wellness staff. Within this context, even modest efficiency gains would be enormously valuable. It is therefore critical for education research to include rigorous economic evaluations to inform decisions about the allocation of resources. This training program will provide educatio...

This training program will provide attendees with foundational skills in both cost-effectiveness and economic evaluation.

During the past 40 years, the United States has made major advances in expanding access to postsecondary education, but many students arrive at college without the requisite English and math skills to perform college-level work. Community colleges and other open-access institutions have traditionally responded by placing such students into sequential developmental (or remedial) education courses with outdated curricula and instructional practices. Unfortunately, research indicates that stude...

The Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE) conducts research and provides national leadership (in cooperation with IES) in order to advance knowledge regarding the link between postsecondary education and the labor market. The Center aims to clarify this link with attention to three key topics: (1) relatively short-term occupational degrees (occupational associate degrees and certificates or diplomas) that are designed to improve labor market outcomes; (2) th...