Open AccessClassification of University Departments of Industrial Engineering in Colombia: A DEA Application without Explicit Inputs
Author(s) -
Adel Mendoza Mendoza,
Delimiro Visbal-Cadavid,
Enrique Delahoz-Domínguez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
xi'nan jiaotong daxue xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 0258-2724
DOI - 10.35741/issn.0258-2724.56.2.38
Subject(s) - accreditation , data envelopment analysis , quality assurance , higher education , quality (philosophy) , homogeneous , engineering management , control (management) , state (computer science) , computer science , business , engineering , marketing , mathematics , economic growth , economics , statistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm , combinatorics , service (business)
The article describes the use and applicability of Data Envelopment Analysis without Explicit Input (DEA-WEI) to evaluate the performance in SaberPRO tests of 82 industrial engineering programs in Colombia during 2016-2018. The results obtained can be used as an instrument to strengthen the quality assurance processes in higher education. As a result of applying the DEA-WEI model, the universities could be classified into five homogeneous groups, each with different characteristics. This grouping can be used as a strategic tool for the higher education institutions since it was possible to identify the other institutions' reference universities. In the current environment, evaluating a university's academic program's performance and its comparison with other universities is an essential issue for students, state control agencies, and universities to improve their indicators for accreditation processes. This classification can serve as a comparative measure of the educational quality offered by each university. In some countries, these classification results serve as a reference for allocating resources by the State for financing infrastructure and research projects. In Colombia, one of the indicators of quality in higher education is the standardized tests called SaberPRO, taken by all students in the last year of any academic program.