Quarterly of Educational Measurement

Data Envelopment Analysis as a Instrument for Organizational Performance Measurement, Planning and Benchmarking in Education

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

abbas abbaspoor 1
hamid rahimian 2
mohamad reza mehrgan 2
Hadi ahmad nia 2

1 allameh tabatab'i

2 allameh tabataba'i

https://doi.org/10.22054/jem.2016.7453
Abstract
This paper aimed to explain relative efficiency of educational departments of Zanjan province using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)  technique. The study used quantitative approach and a descriptive-cross sectional methodology by investigation in official documents. To determine the efficiency, using a questionnaire, viewpoints of experts about input and output variables were gathered and then the appropriate ones were seleceted by Borda technique. By using Slack method, from 14 education offices, seven offices determined as efficient and the others as inefficient. To use the findings of the research in planning and benchmarking, optimum values of each education offices were presented to be used as quantitative objectives in goal setting and planning.

Keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis
Organisational Performance Measurement
Planning and Benchmarking
Quarterly of Educational Measurement
Volume 7, Issue 23
Spring 2016
Pages 99-116

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