1. Educational Performance Assessment of OECD Countries Using PISA 2018 Data.
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UCAR, Ece and KARSAK, E. Ertugrul
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EDUCATIONAL evaluation , *COUNTRIES , *EDUCATIONAL resources , *ACADEMIC achievement , *FOREIGN students - Abstract
With the need of proposing qualified and impartial education to students from all around the world, the efficient use of educational resources and the measurement of students' success in education have gained increasing importance. In this context, the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) provides valuable information about the success of 15-year-old students in PISA tests and about the factors that influence the education of students. This paper uses the PISA 2018 database for educational performance assessment of OECD countries. The performance evaluation is conducted by common-weight DEA-based models. The results obtained by different models are compared in terms of efficiency scores, rankings and weight dispersions. In majority of the models, Estonia and Finland are determined as the most efficient countries. While the conventional DEA model identifies ten countries as efficient, the majority of implemented common-weight DEA-based models achieve full discrimination among countries. This assessment can be a good reference for policy-makers to observe the current situation of their countries in terms of education efficiency and to derive political implications for the improvement of their education systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021