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Combining the assumptions of variable and constant returns to scale in the efficiency evaluation of secondary schools
journal contribution
posted on 2015-07-07, 09:09 authored by Victor PodinovskiVictor Podinovski, Ihsan Ismail, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva, Wenjuan ZhangOur paper reports on the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for the assessment of
performance of secondary schools in Malaysia during the implementation of the policy of
teaching and learning mathematics and science subjects in the English language (PPSMI).
The novelty of our application is that it makes use of the hybrid returns-to-scale (HRS) DEA
model. This combines the assumption of constant returns to scale with respect to quantity
inputs and outputs (teaching provision and students) and variable returns to scale (VRS) with
respect to quality factors (attainment levels on entry and exit) and socio-economic status of
student families. We argue that the HRS model is a better-informed model than the
conventional VRS model in the described application. Because the HRS technology is larger
than the VRS technology, the new model provides a tangibly better discrimination on
efficiency than could be obtained by the VRS model. To assess the productivity change of
secondary schools over the years surrounding the introduction of the PPSMI policy, we adapt
the Malmquist productivity index and its decomposition to the case of HRS model.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
European Journal of Operational ResearchVolume
239Issue
2Pages
504 - 513Citation
PODINOVSKI, V. ... et al, 2014. Combining the assumptions of variable and constant returns to scale in the efficiency evaluation of secondary schools. European Journal of Operational Research, 239 (2), pp.504-513Publisher
© Elsevier B.V.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal European Journal of Operational Research and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.05.016ISSN
0377-2217Publisher version
Language
- en