A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques

This article proposes a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We consider the use of frontier techniques rather than regression equations-the latter of which do not explore variations in students' outcomes within the same school, as this variation is...

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Autores: Thieme, Claudio, Prior Jiménez, Diego|||0000-0002-4669-2861, Tortosa-Ausina, Emili
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Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Palabra clave:Efficiency
Multilevel analysis
Order-m
School effectiveness
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spelling A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniquesThieme, ClaudioPrior Jiménez, Diego|||0000-0002-4669-2861Tortosa-Ausina, EmiliEfficiencyMultilevel analysisOrder-mSchool effectivenessThis article proposes a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We consider the use of frontier techniques rather than regression equations-the latter of which do not explore variations in students' outcomes within the same school, as this variation is hidden behind an average. Similar to some recent literature contributions, we use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality, yielding statistically robust results. In contrast to previous studies that use partial frontiers, we consider in our estimation idiosyncratic variables at the school, class, and student levels. Our model is applied to a sample of students in the fourth year of primary school in urban schools in Chile. The results are in line with previous ones that found that less than 30% of the variance in students' educational attainment could be attributed to their schools. Our application also corroborates the assertion that a model that considers only student-level variables would yield high inefficiencies that cannot be attributed to the school management, but rather to inadequate resource-endowment policy. In other words, when one does not consider specific variables concerning the resources allocated to the schools, the performance of those school is undervalued, largely because inefficiencies caused by suboptimal resource endowments or difficulties that arise from the socioeconomic environment are instead attributed to poor school management. 22013-01-0120132013-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/140554https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.08.002reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 ECO2010-18967open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1405542026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
title A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
spellingShingle A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
Thieme, Claudio
Efficiency
Multilevel analysis
Order-m
School effectiveness
title_short A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
title_full A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
title_fullStr A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
title_full_unstemmed A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
title_sort A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
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Prior Jiménez, Diego|||0000-0002-4669-2861
Tortosa-Ausina, Emili
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Prior Jiménez, Diego|||0000-0002-4669-2861
Tortosa-Ausina, Emili
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Tortosa-Ausina, Emili
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Efficiency
Multilevel analysis
Order-m
School effectiveness
topic Efficiency
Multilevel analysis
Order-m
School effectiveness
description This article proposes a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We consider the use of frontier techniques rather than regression equations-the latter of which do not explore variations in students' outcomes within the same school, as this variation is hidden behind an average. Similar to some recent literature contributions, we use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality, yielding statistically robust results. In contrast to previous studies that use partial frontiers, we consider in our estimation idiosyncratic variables at the school, class, and student levels. Our model is applied to a sample of students in the fourth year of primary school in urban schools in Chile. The results are in line with previous ones that found that less than 30% of the variance in students' educational attainment could be attributed to their schools. Our application also corroborates the assertion that a model that considers only student-level variables would yield high inefficiencies that cannot be attributed to the school management, but rather to inadequate resource-endowment policy. In other words, when one does not consider specific variables concerning the resources allocated to the schools, the performance of those school is undervalued, largely because inefficiencies caused by suboptimal resource endowments or difficulties that arise from the socioeconomic environment are instead attributed to poor school management.
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