The Ivie has coordinated working paper number 2 of 2012, published by the BBVA Foundation, "Desempeño de los centros educativos: ¿Un problema de recursos o de capacidades organizacionales?". This study, along with other papers, is available on the BBVA Foundation website.
Working paper no. 2/2012: Desempeño de los centros educativos: ¿Un problema de recursos o de capacidades organizacionales?
This working paper uses the partial frontier approach to analyze schools’ efficiency. We use the indicator of maximum potential output with respect to the extent to which school’s results could be improved, either maintaining the environmental conditions or by reaching a general long run improvement. We calculate to which extent the resource allocation should be modified to reach these optimal levels, in order to determine the requirements of better management and higher resource endowments and, thus, facilitate schools with students of lower socioeconomic level to reach maximum results. In a second stage, we establish which capacities determine the differences in performance. The proposed methodology is applied to a sample of 277 schools in Chile, both private and state schools, as well as private schools that receive public funds. Results show that physical and human resources are more important than management efficiency and the students’ socioeconomic level in order to reach maximum pupils’ attainment.
Claudio Thieme is a professor at the Universidad Diego Portales. Diego Prior Jiménez and Víctor Giménez García are currently professors at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Emili Tortosa-Ausina is a researcher at the Ivie and a professor at the Universitat Jaume I.
Working paper no. 2/2012: Desempeño de los centros educativos: ¿Un problema de recursos o de capacidades organizacionales?
This working paper uses the partial frontier approach to analyze schools’ efficiency. We use the indicator of maximum potential output with respect to the extent to which school’s results could be improved, either maintaining the environmental conditions or by reaching a general long run improvement. We calculate to which extent the resource allocation should be modified to reach these optimal levels, in order to determine the requirements of better management and higher resource endowments and, thus, facilitate schools with students of lower socioeconomic level to reach maximum results. In a second stage, we establish which capacities determine the differences in performance. The proposed methodology is applied to a sample of 277 schools in Chile, both private and state schools, as well as private schools that receive public funds. Results show that physical and human resources are more important than management efficiency and the students’ socioeconomic level in order to reach maximum pupils’ attainment.Claudio Thieme is a professor at the Universidad Diego Portales. Diego Prior Jiménez and Víctor Giménez García are currently professors at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Emili Tortosa-Ausina is a researcher at the Ivie and a professor at the Universitat Jaume I.