Decomposing school and school-type effciency

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 an...

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Autor principal: Portela, M. C. A. Silva (author)
Outros Autores: Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2011
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/5347
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/5347
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Resumo: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.