Cost-Utility Analysis in Educational Needs Assessment
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| author | Ross, John A. |
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| contents | Cost-Utility Analysis in Educational Needs Assessment Ross, John A. Educational Needs Program Evaluation Needs Assessment Library Services School Districts Foreign Countries School Libraries Educational Policy Stakeholders Evaluation Research Cost Effectiveness Evaluation Criteria Educational needs assessments (hereafter NAs) are inattentive to cost considerations and are frequently dominated by elite stakeholder groups. In this article I make a case for adopting a cost-utility approach, illustrating the argument with data generated in a NA of central library services in a Canadian school district. Using survey data from eight stakeholder groups, I found that (1) NAs based on the service preferences of a single stakeholder group can be misleading; (2) service preferences can be integrated into a single set of priorities, even when there are disagreements, by using the stakeholder group as the unit of analysis and assigning weights that privilege input from knowledgeable respondents; and (3) that the ranking of service operations produced by user preferences was not significantly correlated with the ranking produced by integrating preferences with costs. Cost-utility analysis would be more helpful if the utilities represented rigorously determined benefits of the services assessed, as well as stakeholder perceptions of the value of these benefits. Cost-utility analysis in NA will not reach its potential until cost considerations are routinely included in educational program evaluations. (Contains 8 tables.) |
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| spellingShingle | Cost-Utility Analysis in Educational Needs Assessment Ross, John A. Educational Needs Program Evaluation Needs Assessment Library Services School Districts Foreign Countries School Libraries Educational Policy Stakeholders Evaluation Research Cost Effectiveness Evaluation Criteria Cost-Utility Analysis in Educational Needs Assessment Ross, John A. Educational Needs Program Evaluation Needs Assessment Library Services School Districts Foreign Countries School Libraries Educational Policy Stakeholders Evaluation Research Cost Effectiveness Evaluation Criteria Educational needs assessments (hereafter NAs) are inattentive to cost considerations and are frequently dominated by elite stakeholder groups. In this article I make a case for adopting a cost-utility approach, illustrating the argument with data generated in a NA of central library services in a Canadian school district. Using survey data from eight stakeholder groups, I found that (1) NAs based on the service preferences of a single stakeholder group can be misleading; (2) service preferences can be integrated into a single set of priorities, even when there are disagreements, by using the stakeholder group as the unit of analysis and assigning weights that privilege input from knowledgeable respondents; and (3) that the ranking of service operations produced by user preferences was not significantly correlated with the ranking produced by integrating preferences with costs. Cost-utility analysis would be more helpful if the utilities represented rigorously determined benefits of the services assessed, as well as stakeholder perceptions of the value of these benefits. Cost-utility analysis in NA will not reach its potential until cost considerations are routinely included in educational program evaluations. (Contains 8 tables.) |
| title | Cost-Utility Analysis in Educational Needs Assessment |
| topic | Educational Needs Program Evaluation Needs Assessment Library Services School Districts Foreign Countries School Libraries Educational Policy Stakeholders Evaluation Research Cost Effectiveness Evaluation Criteria |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ815920 |