Comparing the Efficiency of Innovative Teaching Through Digital Mobile E-learning Based on a DEA Meta-Frontier Model

The goal of this research is to evaluate the effects of innovative teaching on school efficiency via the use of digital mobile e-learning in Taiwan. This study recognized that each school level (elementary, junior, and senior high) has its own frontier productions, which can be readily resolved using the meta-frontier technique. The empirical results of this research indicate the following: (1) importing digital mobile e-learning can genuinely enhance the efficiency of school management; (2) the technology gap ratio (TGR) measures reflect the current production technology of the group, the ratio of the output level of the group boundary, relative to the output level of the common boundary. Hence, this study suggests that elementary schools perform better than senior high schools, while the junior high school performs worst of the three. In summary, TGR values provide an opportunity to identify which technologies are relatively efficient. The study quantitatively supports the importance of not relying on identical frontier production when comparing the efficiency of curricula at different grades of schooling that use different technologies.