Research performance evaluation for measuring efficiency with data envelopment analysis method
Liu D.; Sun H.; Huang L.
2018
Proceedings - 2018 7th International Conference of Educational Innovation through Technology, EITT 2018
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10.1109/EITT.2018.00058
With the 'Double Top' plan, by the Ministry of Education in China, universities are paying more and more attention to their efficiency. They are now engaged in evaluating the efficiency of inputs and outputs of their disciplines and schools. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used widely in different fields including education to evaluate the input-output performance. But not many studies have used DEA to evaluate schools performance within universities. In this study, we conducted a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the research production performance of some liberal arts schools in a Double Top University in China. We chose critical faculty and postgraduate-students related indicators as inputs and research productions such as papers, projects, fund and monographs as outputs indicators. CCR, BCC and Super Efficiency DEA models were selected to compare the efficiency performances from different aspects. The evaluation results for each model are compared in this paper and suggestions for supporting decision are proposed. © 2018 IEEE.
Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Double Top; Efficiency; Performance
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