Efficiency measurement of basic schools using data envelopment analysis. Case study: the Eastern Region, Ghana.
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NOVEMBER 2019
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Abstract
Universally, education encompasses the transfer of knowledge, consciously or
unconsciously from one generation to another in either formal or informal settings.
In recent times, whenever the efficiency of Junior High School education is called
into question, individuals use only the results of the BECE examinations to judge
the schools without considering any other factors. The purpose of this study was
to assess how efficient the junior high schools are in the Eastern region of Ghana
considering both the performance of students and other factors in play. The Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, which is a linear programming approach,
is employed to address the problem of efficiency measurement for decision making
units with several inputs and outputs. A case study based on the Eastern Region
of Ghana was used with primary data sourced from 26 schools. The major findings
revealed that out of the technical efficiencies of the 26 schools for the 2017/2018
academic year that were examined, eighteen schools in the region had less than
one, indicating that the schools are producing below the production frontier and
are therefore technically inefficient according to CCR model. This shows that
in most of the schools, the resources available are being underutilised. For the
BCC model, the technical efficiency of twelve out of the twenty six schools in
the region were inefficient, this means more than half of the schools were efficient
and were using their resources efficiently. It is recommended that, to improve
academic performance of students, government and policy makers should pay
more attention on how to lower the teacher-students ratio and the classroom students ratio in the various schools
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A project report submitted to the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Mphil, Applied Mathematics.
Keywords
Basic schools, Eastern region, Ghana