An application of recent developments of Data Envelopment Analysis to the evaluation of secondary schools in Portugal

International Journal of Services, Technology and Management

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 142-161

  Santos, Jorge ^a   Themido, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency evaluation; Portugal; School capacity utilization; School network; Super efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY;

CAPACITY UTILIZATION; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; PORTUGAL; SCHOOL NETWORKS; SUPER EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249859329     PISSN: 14606720     EISSN: 1741525X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSTM.2001.001596     Document Type: Article

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