Relative performance of academic departments using DEA with sensitivity analysis

The process of liberalization and globalization of Indian economy has brought new opportunities and challenges in all areas of human endeavor including education. Educational institutions have to adopt new strategies to make best use of the opportunities and counter the challenges. One of these chal...

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Published in:Evaluation and program planning 2009-05, Vol.32 (2), p.168-177
Main Authors: Tyagi, Preeti, Yadav, Shiv Prasad, Singh, S.P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Audits (Verification)
Best Practices
DEA
DEA Performance assessment Efficiency India
Departments
Educational Assessment
Educational Indicators
Educational Practices
Educational programmes
Efficiency
Evaluation Methods
First time
Foreign Countries
Global Approach
Globalization
India
Job Performance
Liberalization
Measurement Techniques
Performance assessment
Sensitivity analysis
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Summary:The process of liberalization and globalization of Indian economy has brought new opportunities and challenges in all areas of human endeavor including education. Educational institutions have to adopt new strategies to make best use of the opportunities and counter the challenges. One of these challenges is how to assess the performance of academic programs based on multiple criteria. Keeping this in view, this paper attempts to evaluate the performance efficiencies of 19 academic departments of IIT Roorkee (India) through data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique. The technique has been used to assess the performance of academic institutions in a number of countries like USA, UK, Australia, etc. But we are using it first time in Indian context to the best of our knowledge. Applying DEA models, we calculate technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies and identify the reference sets for inefficient departments. Input and output projections are also suggested for inefficient departments to reach the frontier. Overall performance, research performance and teaching performance are assessed separately using sensitivity analysis.
ISSN:0149-7189
DOI:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2008.10.002