Efficiency Evaluation of Primary and Secondary Education Sector Performance in East Java Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstrak

Education has an important role in creating excellent human resources for
the advancement of national development. However, in Indonesia, there are
still gaps in equal access to education. This study aims to evaluate the
performance efficiency of the education sector to provide recommendations
of which considered inefficient by using the Data Envelopment Analysis
(DEA) method. This study measures the technical efficiency of primary and
both secondary schools (junior and senior high School) in 38 regencies/cities
in East Java Province for three academic years (2016-2019). The results
showed that technical inefficiency still occurs in the implementation of
education in East Java. In addition, peer groups and improvement targets
were obtained for the inefficient regencies/cities. The indicators that most
influence the efficiency value of the education sector in East Java are the
Education Fund Allocation as the input variable and the School Continuing
Rate as the output variable. The scale efficiency analysis shows that most of
the education sector in East Java operates in decreasing returns to scale.