Sains Malaysiana 50(11)(2021): 3421-3438

http://doi.org/10.17576/jsm-2021-5011-25

 

 

Efficiency of Higher Education in the Presence of Shared Inputs using Data Envelopment Analysis

(Kecekapan Pendidikan Tinggi dengan Perkongsian Input menggunakan Analisis Penyampulan Data)

 

MICHAEL GIDEY GEBRU1,2*, SAQLAIN RAZA1 & MANSOOR SHAUKAT KHAN1

 

1Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

 

2Department of Mathematics, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia

 

Received: 26 November 2020/Accepted: 13 March 2021

 

ABSTRACT

This study measures the efficiency of higher education institutions with respect to teaching activity, research activity, and overall activities and also provides a direction for low-performing institutions to improve their performance. In many instances, the efficiency of the institution is a sum up of the efficiency of its activities. However, when the activities consume some resources in common, it requires the allocation of shared resources among the activities. Since sums up the efficiency of each activity does not give the institution's overall efficiency, we use a joint data envelopment analysis that takes into account the institution's internal operations to measure the teaching efficiency, research efficiency, and overall efficiency of the institutions. The empirical results indicate that the institutions that execute both activities simultaneously become more productive rather than adopt a single activity. Hence, this study suggests a useful and measurable action to improve the institution’s performance.

 

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; efficiency; higher educations; shared inputs

 

ABSTRAK

Kajian ini mengukur kecekapan institusi pengajian tinggi dengan melihat kepada aktiviti pengajaran, aktiviti penyelidikan dan keseluruhan aktiviti serta memberikan panduan kepada institusi berprestasi rendah untuk meningkatkan prestasi mereka. Dalam banyak keadaan, kecekapan institusi diukur dengan jumlah kecekapan aktivitinya. Walau bagaimanapun, apabila aktiviti ini menggunakan beberapa sumber yang sama, ia memerlukan peruntukan pengagihan sumber antara aktiviti tersebut. Oleh kerana jumlah kecekapan setiap aktiviti tidak memberikan kecekapan keseluruhan institusi, kami menggunakan analisis penyampulan data yang mempertimbangkan operasi dalaman institusi untuk mengukur kecekapan pengajaran, kecekapan penyelidikan serta kecekapan keseluruhan institusi. Hasil empirik menunjukkan bahawa institusi yang menjalankan kedua-dua aktiviti tersebut secara serentak menjadi lebih produktif daripada yang menjalankan satu aktiviti. Maka, kajian ini mencadangkan tindakan yang berguna dan dapat diukur untuk meningkatkan prestasi institusi.

 

Kata kunci: Analisis penyampulan data; input dikongsi; kecekapan; pengajian tinggi

 

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*Corresponding author; email: gidey.michael7@gmail.com

 

 

 

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