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Input-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian Schools

In: Nonparametric Estimation of Educational Production and Costs using Data Envelopment Analysis

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  • Vincent Blackburn

    (New South Wales Department of Education and Communities)

  • Shae Brennan

    (University of Cincinnati)

  • John Ruggiero

    (University of Dayton)

Abstract

In this chapter we apply the DEA models presented in Chap. 3. We focus on the input-oriented models to measure technical, scale and input allocative efficiency of the primary and secondary schools in Australia. In addition, we also present a production based model of adequacy. In recent years, there has been a movement towards measuring adequacy of educational service provision, defined by Berne and Stiefel (1999) and Duncombe and Yinger (1999) as the minimum amount of resources necessary for a school to meet some pre-defined absolute standard of performance. Typically, this is defined as achieving minimum passing standards on standardized tests. In this chapter, we measure technical, allocative and scale efficiency of Australian schools using the models developed in Chapter 3. We also apply a model (Ruggiero 2007b) to measure the minimum expenditure necessary to provide an adequate education by projecting observations using the predefined adequacy standards instead of the observed outcomes. We use data from school year 2009–2010. In the following section, we discuss our data.

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  • Vincent Blackburn & Shae Brennan & John Ruggiero, 2014. "Input-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian Schools," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Nonparametric Estimation of Educational Production and Costs using Data Envelopment Analysis, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 101-117, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4899-7469-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7469-3_4
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    1. Legenzova Renata & Gaigalienė Asta & Rudytė Dalia & Skunčikienė Solveiga & Kazlauskienė Vilma, 2023. "Assessment of public education expenditure efficiency across Lithuanian municipalities," Financial Internet Quarterly (formerly e-Finanse), Sciendo, vol. 19(4), pages 63-79, December.
    2. Aatzaz Hassan & Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh & Rana Zafar Hayat & Neelam Asghar Ali, 2022. "An Efficiency Analysis of Public and Private Elementary Schools in Dera Ghazi Khan," Journal of Policy Research (JPR), Research Foundation for Humanity (RFH), vol. 8(3), pages 135-150, September.
    3. K. Kounetas & G. Androulakis & M. Kaisari & G. Manousakis, 2023. "Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-29, March.
    4. Ana B. Ruiz & Mariano Luque & Oscar D. Marcenaro-Gutierrez, 2022. "On the use of Synthetic Indexes Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making to Study the Efficiency of Teachers," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 163(3), pages 1269-1300, October.

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