Recurrent Teacher Cost per Student by Key Learning Area: Upper Secondary Schools, Victoria, Australia

• Published in: Education economics Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 121 - 139
• Main Author: Shah, Chandra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Carfax Publishing Ltd 01.08.1998; Taylor and Francis Journals; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Series: Education Economics
• Subjects: Australia (Victoria); Capital expenditures; Class Size; Computation; Core curriculum; Costs; Curricula; Education; Expenditure per Student; Foreign Countries; Grade 11; Grade 12; High Schools; Instruction; Language Laboratories; Learning; Learning Laboratories; Mathematical Models; Salary Wage Differentials; School finance; School Size; Secondary schools; Student retention; Teacher Salaries; Teacher Student Ratio; Teachers; Teaching; Unit Costs; Vocational education; Wages & salaries; Australia; Victoria Australia

This paper reports the development of a model to analize direct teaching cost per student at the class level in Years 11 and 12, the final 2 years of secondary schooling in Victoria, Australia. Cost per student was modelled as a function of class size, teacher time developed to that class and teache...