Measuring Client Satisfaction with Public Education I: Meeting Competing Demands in Establishing State-wide Benchmarks

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-123

  King, John A ^a   Bond, Trevor G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS; SCHOOLS;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA REDUCTION; EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; CONSUMER; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 0038482138     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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