The purpose of this study is to analyse the relative efficiency of departments at college of education in a national university to provide education community with strategies promoting operational and educational efficiency. In order to achieve the pr...
The purpose of this study is to analyse the relative efficiency of departments at college of education in a national university to provide education community with strategies promoting operational and educational efficiency. In order to achieve the proposed research goals, this study raised the specific research questions as follows:
1) What is the relative efficiency of inter-university departments at the college of education (Department of Education and Mathematics Education)?
2) Is there a difference in relative efficiency between departments at the college of education (Department of Education, Mathematics Education) with respect to the university's property?
3) What could be an appropriate strategies to increase the efficiency at the college of education for the selected departments?
Applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique, this study analyzed the distribution of the relative efficiency of the two departments at multiple institutions. The results of the study are as follows:
Relative efficiency distribution of Education and Mathematics departments was lower than that of previous studies that examined universities. In addition, the source of low efficiency was not the size of departments, but the elements pertaining to operational practice.
Second, reviewing the characteristic factors of each university, efficiency scores of each department did not reveal any significant difference. However, departments‘ efficiency scores with regard to scale factors showed a statistically significant difference.
Third, Looking at the possible improvement value for the departments of relatively low efficiency, department of education needs to improve the skills of managing educational environment than the research environment. On the other hand, department of mathematics is found to improve the skills of managing research environment than that of educational environment.
In sum, operating scale of the department, university characteristics, and weakness among others are required to be accurately analyzed to improve the efficiency at college of education. It needs to reflect the efficiency measures that indicate the strengths and weaknesses of the department to be based on.