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Efficiency Evaluation in Secondary Schools: the key role of model specification and of ex post analysis of results

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  • Maria-Jesus Mancebb
  • Eduardo Bandres

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This paper evaluates the efficiency of a sample of Spanish secondary schools, paying particular attention to the theoretical specification of the measurement model and to the ex post analysis of the results, aspects which, despite being of undoubted importance, have nevertheless received little attention in the previous literature on the subject. The paper tries to demonstrate that, in order for a study of this nature to have the minimum solvency, it is the special characteristics of the education production process that must form the basic guidelines to be followed by the researcher. The paper also highlights the characteristics that differentiate the most efficient schools from the least efficient, and emphasises the importance of completing the information supplied by the quantitative methods of educational evaluation (such as data envelopment analysis), with data of a qualitative nature obtained by way of surveys directed at the pupils (customers) and the school decision-makers.

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  • Maria-Jesus Mancebb & Eduardo Bandres, 1999. "Efficiency Evaluation in Secondary Schools: the key role of model specification and of ex post analysis of results," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(2), pages 131-152.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:7:y:1999:i:2:p:131-152
    DOI: 10.1080/09645299900000012
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    1. Johnes, Jill, 2006. "Data envelopment analysis and its application to the measurement of efficiency in higher education," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 25(3), pages 273-288, June.
    2. Muniz, M. A., 2002. "Separating managerial inefficiency and external conditions in data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 143(3), pages 625-643, December.
    3. Seijas Díaz, A., 2005. "Análisis de la eficiencia técnica en la Educación Secundaria/Tehnical efficiency in educational institutions," Estudios de Economia Aplicada, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, vol. 23, pages 299-322, Agosto.
    4. M-J Mancebón & J Calero & Á Choi & D P Ximénez-de-Embún, 2012. "The efficiency of public and publicly subsidized high schools in Spain: Evidence from PISA-2006," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 63(11), pages 1516-1533, November.
    5. Claudio Thieme & Diego Prior & Víctor Giménez & Emili Tortosa, 2010. "Desempeño De Los Establecimientos Educativos:¿Un Problema De Recursos, Capacidades Organizacionales O Nivel Socioeconómico?," Working Papers 14, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad Diego Portales.
    6. Claudio Thieme & Diego Prior & Víctor Giménez & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2011. "Desempeño de los centros educativos: ¿un problema de recursos o capacidades organizativas?," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 199(4), pages 81-118, December.

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