Efficiency and effectiveness are two important criteria to be incorporated into any evaluation of a higher education institute. Indicators of these features have, however, been difficult to define. Little work has been reported attempting to determine those characteristics perceived to be important by people involved in higher education. The present study seeks to identify, in the Indonesian context, certain broad indicators which are seen by teaching staff to be important. The study also assesses whether these indicators reflect the characteristics of the institutions in which the staff are employed. Seven criteria for indicators are identified empirically, these addressing quite disparate features of an institution's environment.The rapid expansion of higher education has been a feature of education systems in both developed and developing countries since the 1960s. During the intervening years, enrolments increased many times and brought with them attendant demands for huge increases in resources. Many articles and books have described or analysed this phenomenon. Perhaps over the more recent past however, resources devoted to education have not had the same degree of elasticity as they had earlier. More constraints are now imposed with the consequence that educational institutions need to be evaluated more carefully, especially with regard to their efficiency and effectiveness. S adlak (1978, p. 213) points out that "it is in this context that the problem of efficiency in higher education becomes significant," while Bowen and Douglass (1971, p. 2) posit that "one approach to solving the problem (of limited resources) is to improve the operating efficiency of colleges and universities". The need to understand 0018 1560/83/$03.00 9 1983 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
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