Testing the validity and structure of the data envelopment analysis PISA scores
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2014
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IJAME
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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This research aims to take efficiency as a black box between input and output, or a property of the process, and suggest an alternative way to evaluate the validity of Data Enveloping Analysis (DEA) scores. Over the last ten years, DEA has become a commonly used measure of efficiency of processes. It is offered as a non-parametric method of output oriented optimization, which is solved without any assumption under the restriction of the convexity with metric input and output measurements. Alternatively, output models like Cobb-Douglas or advanced econometric models are valid under several assumptions, and efficiency requires a significance test. Similar processes with the same input level exhibit a different level of output due to efficiency. This means that output is a function of input and efficiency. The present study models the DEA scores of an education efficiency research study by applying path analysis. Efficiency is found as moderator variable instead the expectation of mediation effect of an educational input-output process. The findings and interpretation of the structure depend on the data and its coverage, which do not lead to generalization of the efficiency concept. However, the main insight of the method is to consider real processes, not simulated model data. The purposed method enables the statistical testing of calculated DEA efficiency scores. Processes might be updated through the structured interpretation of how efficiency affects the output.
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Data Enveloping Analysis, Path Analysis, Education, Efficiency, Score Validity, Significance Test
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International Journal of Advances in Management and Economics
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