A total factor productivity analysis of cultivating students’ integrative learning in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yi-Ping Huang, 黃宜品
• Other Authors: Kai-Chiung Peng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/grgqtg

碩士 === 健行科技大學 === 國際企業經營系碩士在職專班 === 105 === The purpose of this study is to explore Taiwan’s children integrative academic attainment efficiency and the comparison with its overseas counterparts. The subjects were involved in inter-temporal participation in the 2006 (2007) and 2011 surveys while at the same time attending the TIMSS and PIRLS tests, conducted in selected countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Austria, Hong Kong, Taiwan, a total of 13 countries. Data from the IEA(The International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement)and the UIS survey results were treated by the BCC output-oriented model of the data envelopment analysis and Malmquist Productivity Index to proceed with the research. The results of the study pointed out that the efficiency of the 13 countries in the 2006 (2007) BCC variable returns to scale analysis were as follows: technical efficiency mean: 0.984, scale efficiency value: 0.86, Taiwan’s technical efficiency value was 1, scale efficiency value was 1 and had the best returns to scale, which meant that of the 13 countries, Taiwan had a relatively higher efficiency. The 2011 analysis results showed the technical efficiency man to be 0.987, the scale efficiency value, 0.754, Taiwan’s technical efficiency value was 1 and the scale efficiency value was 0.86 with diminishing returns to scale. During that period, among these 13 countries, the countries with technical efficiency shot up from 6 to 8 whereas the countries with scale of efficiency dropped from 4 to 2. The results of the Malmquist Productivity Index showed that the total factor productivity was 0.865, total efficiency changes 0.86, technological change, 1.044, pure technical efficiency 1.03 and scale of efficiency, 0.868. Of the overall 13 countries, only 2 had their total factor productivity progressing whereas the remaining 11 countries’ all declined. Taiwan’s total factor productivity was 0.865, which meant a decline, the main reason being a regression in scale efficiency