Time: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. (Mountain Time)
Description: This webinar will introduce cost-benefit, cost-feasibility, and cost-effectiveness analysis methods that decisionmakers can use to guide decisions on selecting instructional strategies, interventions, and curricula that are not only effective but also fiscally more efficient. The anticipated outcomes for participants include (1) learning about the basic concepts of cost-benefit, cost-feasibility, and cost-effectiveness analyses, including under what circumstances each method is used and how to interpret results; (2) developing an understanding of the value of using these methods in decisionmaking that involves the investment of education resources; and (3) gaining an understanding of the methods used with these analyses, including how to identify and quantify program costs and benefits, and measure program impacts. The webinar will also illustrate these outcomes by placing them in the context of a 2017 study that addresses the costs and impacts associated with using retired mentors to support new teachers in high-need elementary schools.
Audience: The primary audience for this event consists of district- and school-level decisionmakers who are responsible for choosing among different instructional strategies, curricula, academic interventions, and other key instructional inputs. State agency staff who focus on school improvement would also benefit from this webinar. These decisionmakers can include state department of education officials; district superintendents, assistant superintendents for curriculum and instruction, and chief budget officers; and principals and other school-based instructional leaders.
Speakers: Name: Dale DeCesare
Affiliation: APA Consulting Name: Mark Fermanich Affiliation: APA Consulting
Report Citation: Chetty, R., Friedman, J. N., & Rockoff, J. E. (2011). The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood (NBER Working Paper No. 17699). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from link ERIC: link
DeCesare, D., McClelland, A., & Randel, B. (2017). Impacts of the Retired Mentors for New Teachers program (REL 2017-225). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Central. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=REL2017225
ERIC: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED573097
Levin, H. M., & Belfield, C. R. (2013). Guiding the development and use of cost-effectiveness analysis in education. New York, NY: Columbia University, Teachers College, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education. Retrieved from http://cbcse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Guiding-the-Development-And-Use-of-Cost-effectiveness-Analysis-in-Education.pdf
ERIC: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1068556
Levin, H. M., & McEwan, P. J. (2001). Cost-effectiveness analysis: Methods and applications (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
