Overview
Topic status: In progress
Overview
This project aims to explore the performance of Australian public secondary schools using econometric frontier modelling. Given fixed resources, such as Government funding, number of teaching staff, etc., we seek to identify how efficient schools are in using these fixed resources to maximise their "output" (typically a measure of student performance). Stochastic frontier modelling is a method that provides relative efficiency measures, and can potentially aide in identifying, for those schools not operating at maximum efficiency, where economic efficiency can be improved.
Research activities
Data gathering and initial modelling of data.
Expected outcomes
Cleansed data set, report on initial finding from frontier analysis.
Duration of project
6 weeks, December 2011/January 2012
Number of hours
42 hours total
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scholarship
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Keywords
- stochastic frontier analysis, public schools, analysis, efficiency of public schools
- Contact
- Please contact supervisor for enquiries.
Dr Helen Thompson
