| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育政策與行政研究所 === 96 === The main pruposes of this study involve: firstly, to understand the context and building reasons of international indicators for educational finance; secondly, to build the domestic indicators for educational finance. In order to meet the purposes, this study analyzes 3 cases of international indicators for educaitonal finance, including the indicators from the OECD, the U.S.A. and the World Bank. Besides, this study criticizes 2 cases of domestic indicators. Based on the data above, this study builds an initiative system of indicators for educational finance and then uses the Delphi technique twice to find out the appropriate indicators. As to the Delphi technique questionnaires, they are delivered to 15 college teachers. At last, through the statistic analysis (Mean, Stand Deviation, and Mode), this study finds out 67 indicators which can be used in Taiwan. Furthermore, there are 5 indicators are universal adopted: “educational expenditure per student,” “expenditure on primary, secondary and higher education of educational institutions relative to gross domestic product (GDP),” “expenditure on different levels of educational institutions relative to GDP,” “educational expenditure on different levels of governments relative to total public expenditure,” and “educational expenditure per student relative to GDP.”
The main conclusions of this study are as follows:
1. Global sag in educational investment pushes governments to strengthen the efficiency of using educational resources.
2. Governments use indicators to view their own advantages and disadvantages among the fierce international competition.
3. Policy makers use information gathtered by indicators to modify their policy and convince their people of their policy.
4. International indicators for educational finance are builded for meeting the need of improving education. International scholars use data base and work together to modify indicators.
5. International governments put much attention on issues about: educational expenditure per student, expenditure on educational institutions relative to GDP, public and private investment in educational institutions, total public expenditure on education, tuition fees charged by tertiary institutions and support for students and households through public subsidies, expenditure in institutions by service category and by resource category, estimates of technical efficiency for primary and lower secondary public sector education, class size and ratio of students to teaching staff, and teachers’ salaries.
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