Performance assessment of upper secondary schools in Italian regions using a circular pseudo-Malmquist index

Camanho, Ana S.; Varriale, Luisa; Barbosa, Flávia; Sobral, Thiago

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2020.07.050

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“…Such a result corroborates how organizational structure in the school sector, when measured by autonomy, impacts PMSs as an internal determinant (Rofiaty 2019;Tajeddini et al 2020). However, because Portuguese public schools have a limited degree of structural autonomy, given that they also depend on government policies, this public sector is the subject of public reforms (Kallio et al 2020;Kickert 2011) that differ in each country or region (Camanho et al 2021;Kickert 2011). In addition, there are external variables or contingencies (economic, political, social, and cultural factors) that influence the autonomy-PMSs relationship (Ferreira and Otley 2009;Tajeddini et al 2020) and, consequently, organizational performance (Endrikat et al 2020;Geleilate et al 2020;Lourenço 2020).…”

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“…In schools, entrepreneurship, and knowledge management impacts strategy, improving innovation and organizational performance (Rofiaty 2019). Additionally, different types of schools (secondary/general or professional/vocational) located in different geographical contexts can generate different students' performances (pedagogical efficiency) (Camanho et al 2021).…”

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Structural Autonomy and Management Performance: An Influence Reinforced in the Particular Context of Portuguese Public Secondary Schools

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The purpose of this research is to verify interdependencies among service innovation, structural autonomy, performance measurement systems, and organizational outcomes in a new organizational context. The relationships between these variables that structure organizational design have been studied for several decades, but it is necessary to verify the validity of those interdependencies in new geographical contexts and periods. Contingency theory was the selected framework because it argues how different scenarios can justify different organizational solutions and is appropriate in the predominant quantitative research. For data collection, surveys were sent to 526 executive heads of all Portuguese public secondary schools, obtaining 154 valid responses. Data processing was carried out using descriptive analysis, Spearman correlation, and structural equation analysis. The results reinforce previous literature, proving the influence of structural autonomy, not only on pedagogical management performance but also on resource management performance within a specific context explored for the first time in the Portuguese public sector. However, the interdependence of these variables in relation to pedagogical innovation strategy and organizational outcomes of effectiveness and efficiency was not verified in this particular setting, corroborating the basic foundations of contingency theory.

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Structural Autonomy and Management Performance: An Influence Reinforced in the Particular Context of Portuguese Public Secondary Schools

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“…(2018), who use a lexicographic approach to reach the efficient frontier, Lozano and Soltani (2020c), who address target setting with the hyperbolic distance function, Camanho et al. (2021), who use a pseudo‐Malmquist index, Lozano et al. (2020), who use compromise programming, Silva et al.…”

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“…A large number of models and approaches have been developed within DEA for purposes of benchmarking and target setting, often in combination with other methodologies. Some recent papers dealing with these issues include Korhonen et al (2018), who use a lexicographic approach to reach the efficient frontier, Lozano and Soltani (2020c), who address target setting with the hyperbolic distance function, Camanho et al (2021), who use a pseudo-Malmquist index, Lozano et al (2020), who use compromise programming, Silva et al (2020), Stumbriene et al (2020), andVan Puyenbroeck et al (2021), who use composite indicators, Chen and Wang (2019), who propose a target setting approach within the framework of cross efficiency, Lim (2018), who deal with forecasting targets in presence of infeasibility, Moreno and Lozano (2018), who combine DEA and network DEA, Wu et al (2020), who combine DEA and game theory, An et al (2020), who use agency theory also in combination with games, and Park and Lee (2018), Lozano and Calzada-Infante (2018), Ramón et al (2018), Nasrabadi et al (2019), Dehnokhalaji and Soltani (2019), An et al (2021) and Lozano and Soltani (2020a), who propose stepwise benchmarking approaches.…”

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Identifying suitable benchmarks in the way toward achieving targets using data envelopment analysis

Ruiz

Sirvent

2021

Int Trans Operational Res

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It was earlier claimed by the authors that the data envelopment analysis (DEA) models commonly used only implement objectives concerned with target setting, while peer identification, which is a key issue for the benchmarking, is actually a by‐product. For this reason, they developed some bi‐objective DEA benchmarking models that pay special attention to the selection of benchmarks among peers, in addition to setting the closest targets. Following an analogous approach, we here continue that research and propose new models that provide a response to the question of whom to emulate to achieve the targets that have been set for a given organization. Thus, the proposed approach now aims to relate the setting of targets and the identification of peers, specifically identifying peers that may serve as benchmarks for improving performance in the direction established by the targets set. As a result, the models identify the so‐called leading benchmark, which is the one whose performance is most aligned with the targets. Eventually, a series of targets and peers are generated by varying the importance attached to the two objectives considered, which offer decision‐makers alternatives for the selection of a course of action when planning improvements.

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“…The literature on school ranking is vast. Some scholars have mainly focused on school quality and student achievements (Eide & Showalter, 1998;Camanho et al, 2021), others have analyzed the school's contribution to student academic performance discussing both the so-called "school value-added" (Jamelske, 2009;Kelly & Downey, 2010;Schiltz et al, 2018) and the question of "school accountability" affecting the school choice (Burgess et al, 2013;Hart & Figlio, 2015;Nunes et al, 2015).…”

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2022

IJAHP

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This paper aims to investigate and compare the performance of Italian public high schools (HS) to provide a ranking among different typologies of HS. In this paper, seven criteria that refer to students' school and academic performance were considered. The sample includes 263 high schools in all Italian regions, grouped into 6 different types of schools and 3 geographic areas. Assuming that all criteria have the same weights, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was applied to derive the ranking among the typologies of schools both at a national level and within each geographic area. The main results show that there are significant differences between HS according to criteria related to school and academic performance both within and between geographic areas. The ranking does not vary, but the intensity of preferences may be different according to the area and/or the criterion considered. The application of PROMETHEE to the same problem confirms the results obtained by the AHP.

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Performance assessment of upper secondary schools in Italian regions using a circular pseudo-Malmquist index

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Structural Autonomy and Management Performance: An Influence Reinforced in the Particular Context of Portuguese Public Secondary Schools

Structural Autonomy and Management Performance: An Influence Reinforced in the Particular Context of Portuguese Public Secondary Schools

Identifying suitable benchmarks in the way toward achieving targets using data envelopment analysis

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