A learning performance evaluation with benchmarking concept for English writing courses

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 14542-14549

  Montoneri, Bernard ^a   Lee, Chia Chi ^b   Lin, Tyrone T ^c   Huang, Shio Ling ^c  

^a PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data enveloped analysis (DEA); English writing; Facet reference sets; Learning performance benchmarking

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPED ANALYSIS (DEA); DEA MODELS; DECISION-MAKING UNITS; ENGLISH WRITING; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; KEY INDICATOR; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REFERENCE SET; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RELIABLE EVALUATION METHOD;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; TEACHING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80052035980     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.05.029     Document Type: Article

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