School Spending and Student Achievement in Michigan: What's the Relationship? A Mackinac Center Report

Autor/inn/en	DeGrow, Ben; Hoang, Ed
Institution	Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Titel	School Spending and Student Achievement in Michigan: What's the Relationship? A Mackinac Center Report
Quelle	(2016), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-942502-04-3
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Academic Achievement; Educational Finance; Regression (Statistics); Elementary Secondary Education; School Districts; Multiple Regression Analysis; Public Schools; Graduation Rate; State Departments of Education; Standardized Tests; Scores; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Schulleistung; Bildungsfonds; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; School district; Schulbezirk; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Kultusministerium; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test
Abstract	What is the relationship between school spending and student achievement in Michigan? That is the question this paper attempts to answer. The bulk of the research on this question has typically shown that there is little correlation between spending and achievement, but it is possible that Michigan's public schools are an exception to this finding. To test this hypothesis, this study uses a large data set containing detailed spending, standardized test scores and student demographic information from more than 4,000 individual public schools in Michigan from 2007 to 2013. Using building-level data, as opposed to data grouped at the district level, allows for a more precise examination of the relationship between school spending and student achievement. The study employs a multiple regression analysis to examine whether the data show a relationship between school spending and student achievement. It looks for a statistically significant correlation between how much an individual school spends per pupil and how well its students perform on one or more of 28 measurements of academic achievement. The indicators include results from three different standardized tests as well as graduation rates for high school students. The results from this analysis of recent Michigan-specific data suggest that there is no statistically significant correlation between how much money public schools in Michigan spend and how well students perform academically. This finding is consistent with what the bulk of previous research has found. The results from this analysis suggest that student achievement will not improve by simply spending more on Michigan's current public school system, all else being equal. One appendix is included: The Regression Model and Detailed Results. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01