Η αποδοτικότητα στην ανώτερη δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση: η περίπτωση των γενικών 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 General Senior 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). The scale of   efficiency   is the ability of each unit to operate at the optimal scale of function. 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 general Senior High Schools in the region of Central Macedonia is superior to the one measured in 2007-08.