Brains for the Bucks? School Revenue and student achievement in Oklahoma. The Social Science Journals, 1995, vol.32, no. 3, pp.299-308(10) Elsevier Science .
The hypotheses presented in this article is that revenue is likely to have small, non statistically significant, positive or negative effects on students test scores. The method of data collection used in the article is survey and available data. Lists were obtained that contained information about per-pupil revenue and various other list denoting income. Also, surveys were taken before hand that focused on school inputs(e.g. Pupil expenditure) ,as well as school outputs. The primary output was student learning and the device used to measure student learning was the student achievement test. .
The nature of the data used to test the hypotheses used large proportions of past analysis that had been conducted as well as the many listings that showed school revenue and achievement. Further, a lot the data for the study was also derived from the Oklahoma Indicators and Oklahoma State Department of Education. .
The findings presented from the article suggests that the most advantaged children typically receive the further advantage of the richest and best public schools. This is particularly true since the evidence from this analysis and others indicates that higher school revenue has a significantly positive influence on student outcomes .
As far as the research that could possibly be done in the future, there needs to be more research performed longitudinally, including many states, and using many different types of funds and measures of social wealth. This is true because although this money question seems to be answered in Oklahoma, more research is needed to see whether or not the findings hold true across the country. .