Η αποδοτικότητα στην ανώτερη Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση: H περίπτωση των Επαγγελματικών Λυκείων της Περιφέρειας Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας

Abstract

 In order to evaluate the efficiency in the field of education, a number of educational assessment methodological tools have been proposed, which often appear dissimilar. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) comprises a remarkably wide-spread methodology, whereby the effectiveness of collective decisions can be estimated with a non parametrical process. DEA accepts that the decision unit (school) is a productive unit which consumes resources to produce a number of outputs. Our research refers to Professional High Schools in the region of Central Macedonia, during the school years 2007-08 and 2010-11, before the economic crisis in Greece and during it accordingly. We have used three inputs and two outputs in two models: the first focused on the decrease of inputs on certain outputs (input oriented model) and the latter on the possible maximization of the outputs on certain inputs (output oriented model). Our conclusion is that for the school year 2010-11, which falls in the period of the economic crisis in Greece, the efficiency scale of the Professional High Schools in the region of Central Macedonia is superior to the one measured in 2007-08.