McGill University credits General Electric with developing value analysis, also known as value engineering, as a practice during the late 1940s. Value analysis is a methodical approach to sharpening ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Donald Martin, superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina, which has been using value-added analysis in evaluating its teachers ...

Last week, the LA Times published a report examining the effectiveness of over 6,000 LAUSD elementary school teachers, but the findings caused many members of United Teachers Los Angeles to call for a ...

Value engineering is defined by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants as the functional analysis and redesign of products and services to provide value to the customer. Value engineering ...

To effectively reduce unnecessary processing and overproduction of i.v. medications, it was first necessary to analyze medication orders. A medication order analysis was completed to accurately ...

The Commentary by Douglas Harris (“Economists and the Value-Added Wave in Schools,” Jan. 26, 2011), in which he discusses a divide between economists and education scholars over the merits of ...

An eye-catching new statistical analysis by economists at Harvard and Columbia universities finds that having a high-quality teacher for even one year can have a measurable long-term impact on ...