A Composite Indicator for University Quality Assesment: The Case of Spanish Higher Education System

Fernández, Pilar Murias; Miguel, José; Rodríguez, David

doi:10.1007/s11205-007-9226-z

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“…Murias et al (2008) argue two main reasons for this: the increase in competition among universities in order to recruit students and the new dynamism in the financing of these institutions. ANECA 1 (2008) also underlines the importance of disclosing information online in order to achieve quality certifications (particularly in doctoral studies).…”

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Universities’ Websites: Disclosure Practices and the Revelation of Financial Information

Gallego

García²,

Rodríguez³

2009

IJDAR

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Despite the social importance of universities and their significance as receivers of public funds, hardly any research exists about their disclosure of financial information. The scarce research that has been done has focused on countries such as the United States, New Zealand, Austria, the United Kingdom and Norway. In addition, the Internet is used widely on behalf of public bodies as a way to improve their relations with citizens, through greater disclosure of information and the possibility of doing administrative business and paperwork online. Considering both topics, this work has a twofold objective: (1) to analyse the disclosure of information revealed online by Spanish universities, focusing on several issues, such as financial information, corporate governance, social responsibility and strategy, teaching and research activities, etc.; and (2) to observe the factors that explain the disclosure of financial information through Spanish universities' websites, focusing mainly on size, leverage, university profitability, governance, type of university, research orientation, age of the university and its internationality etc. This study takes into account the whole population of Spanish universities (70 universities: 48 public and 22 private). The findings obtained emphasize that university websites mainly disclose information on teaching and research activities and on governing bodies; to a lesser extent, they reveal information on their social responsibility and strategic aspects; and finally, the volume of financial information disclosed remains quite small, mainly including their budgets. Furthermore, the universities with lower levels of leverage disclose more information online, whereas those with higher volumes of debt are more reluctant to reveal their internal situation on the Internet.

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Universities’ Websites: Disclosure Practices and the Revelation of Financial Information

Gallego

García²,

Rodríguez³

2009

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“…The efficiency of the state-run universities in Spain, using DEA, is evaluated by Murias et al [13], García and Palomares [14], Gómez [15], and Fernández et al [16]; the first apply the CCR model aimed at outputs and determine the results are better for the universities located in wealthier areas; the second evaluate teaching and research results through CCR and BCC models aimed at outputs and calculate the Malmquist productivity indices; the third highlights the potentiality of DEA for these types of measurements in the public sector, uses the method with CCR constant scale yields along with BCC variable yields and concludes that the number of efficient universities is higher in the models with variable yield than in those of constant yield; the last, through BCC and CCR models aimed at outputs study the mission teaching and research functions after implanting the LOU. Cunha and Rocha [17] do the same in Portugal by contrasting the results of the public universities by evaluating teaching through CCR and BCC models aimed at inputs and conclude that few are efficient.…”

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Technical efficiency measurement of the teaching function in the undergraduate attendance programs at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

2015

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Public higher education institutions in Colombia have limited resources (and often insufficient), so it is crucial to use them adequately to fully achieve their mission objectives. This paper presents a measurement and analysis of the technical efficiency of teaching, a core mission of the undergraduate attendance programs at Universidad Nueva Granada. The method used is data envelopment analysis, as it provides relative efficiency scores of the units under study and it also gives additional information of the reference peers. This allows formulating improvement plans for the university management. Two study scenarios were defined: the first includes inputs and desirable outputs and the second takes into account undesirable outputs. Performance was analyzed for six consecutive semesters from the year 2011 and the corresponding Malmquist indices were calculated. The results are encouraging since they indicate that 30.76% of the programs are 100% efficient in all periods regardless of the scenario in which they were measured.Keywords: Data envelopment analysis, Higher Education, Relative efficiency, Malmquist index, Undesirable outputs. ResumenLas instituciones de educación superior de carácter estatal en Colombia cuentan con recursos limitados (y muchas veces insuficientes), por lo tanto es perentoria hacer una adecuada utilización de ellos para lograr el cumplimiento de sus objetivos misionales. En este artículo se presenta una medición y análisis de la eficiencia técnica de la enseñanza, una misión funcional de los programas de pregrado presencial de la Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. El método utilizado se basa en el Análisis Envolvente de Datos, puesto que permite calcular índices de eficiencia relativa de las unidades objeto de estudio y además suministra información adicional para la obtención de pares de referencia. Esto permite formular planes de mejoramiento en la gestión universitaria. Se definieron dos escenarios de estudio, uno considerando entradas y salidas deseadas y otro involucrando adicionalmente una salida indeseada. Se analizó el desempeño durante seis semestres consecutivos a partir del año 2011 y se calcularon los correspondientes índices de Malmquist. Los resultados obtenidos son alentadores puesto que indican que el 30.76% de los programas resultaron 100% eficientes durante todos los periodos analizados independientemente del escenario en que fueron medidos.

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“…The application of this group of models in CI construction can be found in [7][8][9]. However, in recent years much more attention has been focused on the application of a new group of DEA models in the field of composite indicators which is known as the "benefit of the doubt" (BOD) approach.…”

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A Hierarchical Aggregation Approach for Indicators Based on Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process

Pakkar

2016

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This research proposes a hierarchical aggregation approach using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for indicators. The core logic of the proposed approach is to reflect the hierarchical structures of indicators and their relative priorities in constructing composite indicators (CIs), simultaneously. Under hierarchical structures, the indicators of similar characteristics can be grouped into sub-categories and further into categories. According to this approach, we define a domain of composite losses, i.e., a reduction in CI values, based on two sets of weights. The first set represents the weights of indicators for each Decision Making Unit (DMU) with the minimal composite loss, and the second set represents the weights of indicators bounded by AHP with the maximal composite loss. Using a parametric distance model, we explore various ranking positions for DMUs while the indicator weights obtained from a three-level DEA-based CI model shift towards the corresponding weights bounded by AHP. An illustrative example of road safety performance indicators (SPIs) for a set of European countries highlights the usefulness of the proposed approach.

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A Composite Indicator for University Quality Assesment: The Case of Spanish Higher Education System

Abstract: Composite indicator, Data envelopment analysis, Quality assessment, Higher education,

Cited by 120 publications

References 34 publications

Universities’ Websites: Disclosure Practices and the Revelation of Financial Information

Universities’ Websites: Disclosure Practices and the Revelation of Financial Information

Technical efficiency measurement of the teaching function in the undergraduate attendance programs at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

A Hierarchical Aggregation Approach for Indicators Based on Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process

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