Title:
A Study of How Individual School Characteristics Affect School Performance

dc.contributor.author Gallagher, Andrew
dc.contributor.author Hayes, Cavan
dc.contributor.author Parr, Nathaniel
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Economics en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-10T16:32:10Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-10T16:32:10Z
dc.date.issued 2017-04
dc.description.abstract According to the Georgia Department of Education, over 20 billion dollars are spent on public education in Georgia every year. Knowing this, it is critical to understand what factors have the largest impact on student performance in order to budget money efficiently. Standardized test scores are used as a measure of student performance and compared to personnel and demographic information to determine the most impactful components. Both simple and multiple regression analyses are utilized to ascertain the relationship between standardized test scores and these variables. The analyses show many metrics that intuitively should be impactful have little to no correlation, and the percentage of students who qualify for the “Directly Certified” program, a poverty alleviation program, is the most significant. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/56621
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Econometric analysis en_US
dc.subject Public education en_US
dc.subject Standardized test scores en_US
dc.title A Study of How Individual School Characteristics Affect School Performance en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Undergraduate Research Paper
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Economics
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
local.relation.ispartofseries Economics: Econometric Analysis
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