Fiona Hollands

The project team aims to improve the rigor, comparability, and usefulness of cost analyses and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) of educational programs by facilitating the application of the recently established Standards for the Economic Evaluation of Educational and Social Programs (SEEESP). The team will develop an Economic Evaluation Standards Toolkit that includes a Standards Template that researchers can use to apply the Standards to planned or completed economic analyses.

Teachers College, Columbia University collaborated with SRI International and NORC at the University of Chicago to develop and disseminate free, on-demand tools, guidance, and technical assistance to education researchers and practitioners planning or conducting cost analysis or cost-effectiveness analysis of education practices, programs, and policies.

The overall goal of this partnership project was to investigate whether and how cycle-based budgeting and the concept of academic return on investment can be used to improve decision-making about education programs and strategies and ultimately lead to stronger student education outcomes. In particular, the research partnership sought to identify methods that districts could use to analyze the relative costs of programs to aid in decision-making. During the course of the project, the partner...

This is a cooperative agreement between the Institute of Education Sciences and Teachers College to develop two demonstrations of how cost effectiveness research can enhance evaluations of the impact of education interventions. This project uses impact evidence from the What Works Clearinghouse combined with information about program costs to estimate cost effectiveness. This project team will also develop a web-based tool for assessing cost and cost-effectiveness in education settings. This...