Quality Adjusting Education Sector Productivity

Adjusting Effort Estimation Using Micro-Productivity Profiles

We investigate a phenomenon we call micro-productivity decrease, which is expected to be found in most development or maintenance projects and has a specific profile that depends on the project, the development model and the team. Micro-productivity decrease refers to the observation that the cumulative effort to implement a series of changes is larger than the effort that would be needed if we...

Adjusting for Quality Change

7.1 The measurement of changes in the level of consumer prices is complicated by the appearance and disappearance of new and old goods and services, as well as changes in the quality of existing ones. If there were no such complications, then a representative sample could be taken of the items households consume in period 0, their prices recorded and compared with the prices of the same matched...

Age and Productivity – Sector Differences?

Towards Adjusting Informatics Education to Information Era

Since the very beginning of the modern computing era, the scientific and educational community in informatics has been in a continuous search for a proper philosophy, viewpoints, aims, contents, methods and tools. Advances in software, communication and h ardware have played by that search the most influencing role, with theory advances having only secondary and declining impacts — in spite of ...

The Measurement and Determinants of Efficiency and Productivity in the Further Education Sector in England*

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