Efficiency of secondary schools in Ecuador: A value based DEA approach

Carla Henriques, J.M. Chavez, M.C. Gouveia and O.D. Marcenaro-Gutierrez
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022, vol. 82, issue PA

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Value-Based Data Envelopment Analysis model which specifically tackles non-discretionary data to assess the performance of 159 secondary schools from Ecuador by employing data from the Programme for International Student Assessment for Development. When contrasted with traditional Data Envelopment Analysis models, the Value-Based Data Envelopment Analysis model has several innovative characteristics that can be particularly convenient not only for including the preferences (generally not incorporated) of the decision-makers, but because it easily handles negative or null data. In addition, this methodology also employs a procedure that allows performing the robustness assessment (rarely employed in similar studies) of the results obtained. The factors considered to perform the efficiency assessment of each school include indexes, which reflect the quality of both basic school infrastructures and instructional resources, the economic, social, and cultural level index of students, the student-teacher ratio, and test scores in maths, reading and science. Our findings suggest that the average efficient school has mean scores across all competencies below the average of Latin American and Caribbean countries. Besides, inefficient schools need to make a greater effort to improve results in maths when compared to reading and science competencies. Finally, it can be concluded that inefficient schools can improve students’ achievements by about 11%–12%, with almost the same instructional resources and with a ratio of students per teacher 23% higher but requiring an enhancement of the basic school infrastructure by about 7%.

Keywords: Value based data envelopment analysis; Non-discretionary factors; Multicriteria decision analysis; Ecuadorian secondary schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101226

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