Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. What Health Care Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education 17
6. 2. The Productivity of US Postsecondary Institutions 31
7. 3. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better Than None? 67
8. 4. Learning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions 105
9. 5. The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major 133
10. 6. Faculty Deployment in Research Universities 177
11. 7. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education 209
12. 8. The Competitive Effects of Online Education 259
13. 9. Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four- Year College Success 291
14. Contributors 317
15. Author Index 319
16. Subject Index 323