Operational Efficiency of Featured Elementary Schools in New Taipei City of Taiwan: Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyse the operational efficiency of 47 featured elementary schools in New Taipei City. The input indicators and output indicators were obtained from literature and expert reviews. The four input indicators were teacher-student ratio, staff-student ratio, human resources budget, and capital budget; the four output indicators were study tour person/times, visitor person/times, specialty school courses and activity hours, and media report instances. The findings can be used to accurately depict the operational conditions of featured elementary schools in New Taipei City and to understand the performance changes in input indicators and output indicators of these schools.

Authors

• I-Hua Chang, National Chengchi University

• Cheng-Mei Hsu, China University of Technology