This book provides a complete analysis of educational production
and costs using the nonparametric technique known as Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of
technical, allocative and scale efficiency in the public sector
characterized by the influence of exogenous socio-economic
variables. State of the art DEA models will be presented and fully
discussed. Specific education topics important to policy makers
including adequacy, efficiency, productivity, environmental costs
and equity will be analyzed. To illustrate how these techniques can
be applied to school systems worldwide, the authors use data on
Australian elementary and high schools to develop nonparametric
measures that will help inform current policy debate in Australia.
They also discuss the applicability of these analysis techniques
and methodologies to certain related scenarios.
The purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive analysis
of educational production using numerous DEA models that have been
developed. Chapters 3 7 and 9 were developed in the literature as
extensions to the basic DEA models. Each chapter explains why new
advances in DEA were needed in order to carry out accurate analysis
of educational production, and then presents the use of these new
techniques within the context of educational performance,
productivity, and cost. These extensions were based on public
sector production in general, and educational production in
particular. The models showed that traditional DEA improperly
controlled for exogenous factors of production like the
socioeconomic conditions prevalent in the education setting. In
addition, models of educational funding typically use ad hoc and
simple approaches that often assume that schools operate
efficiently. This book uses economic and mathematical models to
further our understanding of educational production while providing
various measures of economic performance. The authors use current
data on Australian schools to highlight important policy questions
related to efficiency, economies of size and how scarce resources
can best be spent to improve performance.
This research focus comes at an important watershed moment in
the Australian Federal Governments current involvement in designing
new nationally consistent funding models for both government and
non-government schooling sectors with effect from 2014. A new
National School Resourcing Standard is proposed to be implemented
signaling a move to resource adequacy, school efficiency and value
for money dimensions. These proposed innovative schooling
resourcing developments will enable the Australian school
efficiency and productivity studies to serve as the basis to
evaluate the funding changes, in order to determine whether there
have been significantly different student performance outcomes in
the transition from a centralized to a new decentralized set of
school funding arrangements."
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