On effectiveness and efficiency in education. Operationalizing the concepts [article]

Francois Grin
2013
The author, first recalls "the theoretical meaning of the concepts of effectiveness and efficiency, and then briefly discusses the traditional, but still perfectly relevant, analytical distinction between internal and external evaluation. Section 3 is devoted to a brief presentation of some of the problems of identification and measurement raised by these concepts, particularly with respect to appropriately defining the inputs and the outputs on which effectiveness and efficiency rest. Section
more » ... presents the application to the relative effectiveness of school and non-school channels for foreign language acquisition, and section 5 contains a brief conclusion." (DIPF/orig.)
doi:10.25656/01:7916 fatcat:f7cbnrrijrectbctgwng5bzcbq