Abstract

VISBAL CADAVID, Delimiro; MENDOZA MENDOZA, Adel  and  ORJUELA PEDRAZA, Sonia Jacqueline. Predicting the Efficiency of Colombian Higher Education Institutions with Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Mining. Pensam. gest. [online]. 2017, n.42, pp.140-161. ISSN 1657-6276.  https://doi.org/10.14482/pege.42.10467.

This paper shows the results of a research study whose purpose is to evaluate the technical efficiency of institutions of higher education in Colombia during the years 2011-2013 by applying the data envelopment analysis and data mining techniques. With data envelopment analysis, it is determined the technical efficiency and data mining allows to discover hidden information. The result of the combination of these techniques allows to establish prediction rules based on a group of management indicators that can be used by the designers of educational policies to determine the reasons for inefficiency of institutions of higher education. The information provided by the Ministry of National Education was used as a source for the data. It was observed that seven of the 32 institutions considered had an efficiency of 100% during the period of study.

Keywords : Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; Data Mining; Higher Education.

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