Using DEA of REM and EAM for Efficiency Assessment of Technology Institutes Upgraded from Junior Colleges: The Case in Taiwan

摘要

The purpose of this study is to improve the assessment system for vocational education, thus helping to increase technology college education efficiency. This study employs both classical and new data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study relative radial efficiency, management efficiency and scale efficiency of the application of resources for the 38 technology colleges in Taiwan during 1998. Analysis outcomes showed that ranking differentiation between relative classical radial efficiency measure (REM) and efficiency achievement measure (EAM) is consistent, if the same group index differentiation, of an institution, is consistent. Both models support each other and provide clearer relative Pareto efficiency and efficiency achievement for comparison of results.