Title :
A DEA-Based Approach to Education Efficiency Evaluation: Seven Middle Schools as Examples
Author :
Wang Yuan ; Kong Wei-wei ; Zhang Tong ; Gao Yun-xiao
Author_Institution :
Manage. Sch., Xi´an Polytech. Univ., Xi´an, China
Abstract :
Efficiency is one of the important issues for middle school and its results can be served as a direction to invest. We propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based approach to ranking education efficiency of middle schools. The paper give an evaluation results about seven middle schools through six indicators based on DEA. The results indicate that some difference of development level exists and they should adjust their direction and intensity. At last, some suggestions bring this paper into close.
Keywords :
data envelopment analysis; educational institutions; data envelopment analysis; education efficiency evaluation; education efficiency ranking; middle schools; Biological system modeling; Cities and towns; Economics; Educational institutions; Mathematical model; Presses;
Conference_Titel :
E-Product E-Service and E-Entertainment (ICEEE), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Henan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7159-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICEEE.2010.5661092