Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis in Educational Departments

Subject Areas : مدیریت

Nima Hashemi Hashemi ¹ , Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi ² , Seyed Esmaeil Najafi ³

1 - Islamic Azad University of Saveh
2 - Islamic Azad University of Science & Research Branch
3 - Islamic Azad University of Science & Research Branch

Received: 2009-04-04 Accepted : 2009-06-15 Published : 2009-09-06

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis, Performance Evaluation,

Abstract :

In recent years, mathematical and operation research models are commonly used to assess efficiency and productivity of educational departments of universities and ranking them. Some sets of educational, research, and service activities are then considered as input and output indices of the models. Then, according to the importance and influence of indices on total performance of Decision-making Units (DMU), the efficiency score is defined as the weighted sum of outputs-weighted sum of inputs ratio. In this article, we obtained the efficiency score of 11 educational departments in two cases constant return to scale and variable return to scale using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results showed that 6 DMUs are efficient and 5 DMUs are inefficient.