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Applications of data envelopment analysis in education

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  • Emmanuel Thanassoulis
  • Kristof De Witte
  • Jill Johnes
  • Geraint Johnes
  • Giannis Karagiannis
  • Conceição S. Portela
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Publication date2016
Host publicationData envelopment analysis: a handbook of empirical studies and applications
EditorsJoe Zhu
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media
Pages367-438
Number of pages72
ISBN (electronic)9781489976840
ISBN (print)9781489976826
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameInternational Series in Operations Research & Management Science
Volume238
ISSN (Print)0884-8289
ISSN (electronic)2214-7934

Abstract

Non-parametric methods for efficiency evaluation were designed to analyse industries comprising multi-input multi-output producers and lacking data on market prices. Education is a typical example. In this chapter, we review applications of DEA in secondary and tertiary education, focusing on the opportunities that this offers for benchmarking at institutional level. At secondary level, we
investigate also the disaggregation of efficiency measures into pupil-level and school-level effects. For higher education, while many analyses concern overall institutional efficiency, we examine also studies that take a more disaggregated approach, centred either around the performance of specific functional areas or that of individual employees.