Mayston, David John orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-3600 (2016) Convexity, quality and efficiency in education. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 446–455. ISSN 1476-9360
Abstract
While Data Envelopment Analysis has many attractions as a technique for analysing the efficiency of educational organisations, such as schools and universities, care must be taken in its use whenever its assumption of convexity of the prevailing technology and associated production possibility set may not hold. In particular, if the convexity assumption does not hold, DEA may overstate the scope for improvements in technical efficiency through proportional increases in all educational outputs and understate the importance of improvements in allocative efficiency from changing the educational output mix. The paper therefore examines conditions under which the convexity assumption is not guaranteed, particularly when the performance evaluation includes measures related to the assessed quality of the educational outputs. Under such conditions, there is a need to deploy other educational efficiency tools, including an alternative non-parametric output-orientated technique and a more explicit valuation function for educational outputs, in order to estimate the shape of the efficiency frontier and both technical and allocative efficiency.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Special Edition on Efficiency in Education. © 2015 Operational Research Society Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | data envelopment analysis;,quality,education,efficiency analysis,allocative efficiency |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2016 11:27 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:19 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2015.91 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/jors.2015.91 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:95689 |