EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS THROUGH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

Assessment of efficient learning is essential for the efficient allocation and use of educational opportunities for teachers. In this paper, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the relative efficiency of university students attending the specific subject - Operations research. At first, inputs and outputs suitable for measurement the efficiency of university students were identified. Each university student is finally modelled as a linear system with five inputs and six outputs. Since the one input is identified as ordinal, the classical DEA models could not be used. So the modification IDEA models are used for this paper. This model is tested and analysed on specific data of 554 students. An application of DEA allows scholars to identify deficient activity in a given subject or to change access for a specific group of students and to take appropriate action for improvement. The designed model was implemented in GAMS software.