Decomposing school and school-type effciency

• Author(s): Portela, Maria ; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel
• Date: 2001
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/5347
• Origin: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• Subject(s): Data envelopment analysis; Decomposition of efficiency; Education; Performance measurement; School efficiency; Pupil efficiency
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This paper puts forward a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to decomposing a pupil’s under-attainment at school. Under-attainment is attributed to the pupil, the school and the type of funding regime under which the school operates. A pupil-level analysis is used firstly on a within school and secondly on a between school basis, grouping schools by type such as state-funded, independent and so on. Overall measures of each pupil’s efficiency are thus disentangled into pupil, school and school-type efficiencies. This approach provides schools with a set of efficiency measures, each one conveying different information.