教育游戏在高等院校中的应用研究

教育游戏是教育软件与电脑游戏相结合的产物,它可以为学习者创造一个自由、和谐、有趣的学习环境,有助于学习者更好地掌握相应的知识。文中分析了教育游戏的特点,探讨了将教育游戏引入高等院校的必要性,列举了两个在高校教学中应用教育游戏的实例并进行研究。     

Departmental efficiency differences within a Greek university: An application of a DEA and Tobit analysis

The allocation funds mechanisms for universities and their departments seem to be a complex procedure for state authorities. Consequently, the question of how efficient universities and their departments are has been imposed by governments and policymakers. In this paper, we assess research performance of academic departments within a single Greek university. A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) application with six model variants was used to estimate technical efficiencies relative to best practice performance. Furthermore, our input–output criteria are determined and used to measure the departments' academic performance. To deliver reasonable results a Tobit model is considered in a second stage to examine the degree to which “environmental effects” impact on departmental efficiencies. We find that “environmental effects” such as departmental infrastructure, age and schools' personnel have an important role.     

Farming system performance and water use efficiency in the Tunisian semi‐arid region: data envelopment analysis approach

Understanding farming strategies and identifying the parameters controlling production technologies are the fundamental elements required to modify the consumption of the irrigated sector without compromising production objectives. In this regard, the objective of this investigation is to analyse the performance of irrigated farms in the region of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Firstly, farm surveys were carried out in both public and private irrigated areas. Secondly, an analysis of the production system within these farms showed an appropriate technology process. Moreover, the application of the data envelopment analysis approach allowed the measurement of technical and allocative efficiency. The comparison between both production systems, based on public and private resources, revealed that more important resources were wasted under the private than under the public water management system. Thus, the surface wells creation strategy, as a second resource for irrigation, was found to be against the sustainable use of an already overexploited groundwater. However, such strategy is justified when analysing allocative efficiency scores. Indeed, the profitability of the activity, based on the use of wells for irrigation, appears to be much higher than the one based on public resources.     

The performance evaluation of banks considering risk: an application of undesirable relation network DEA

The probability of losses for financial institutions fluctuates in accordance with commodity prices and risk managers’ investment tolerance. For the financial service sector, when the capital base increases through lending and investment instruments, the associated financial risks often grow proportionally higher. In other words, the inherent risk of a loss is the financial institution's principal trade. However, with risk comes reward, and therefore banks often engage in complex financial risk management in order to capitalize on their profits. To assess a bank's performance, traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) incorporates various inputs and outputs and runs through preset formulae to arrive at conclusions. As a result, traditional DEA models often overlook the duality of risks. This paper discusses network DEA by considering the inputs and outputs of a bank's surrounding production processes as additional undesirable factors and integrates the dual nature of risks. We employ and analyze Taiwanese banks’ data to assess the local financial service sector's performance efficiency. The results provide a basis for future recommendations.     

Measuring efficiency and productive performance of colleges at the university of Santo Tomas: a nonparametric approach

This paper estimates relative efficiency and productive performance of 13 colleges at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), using data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Malmquist indices and a multi‐stage model. DEA is a management evaluation tool that assists with identifying the most efficient and inefficient decision‐making units (DMUs) in the best practice frontier. Total factor productivity (TFP) is measured for a sample of 13 colleges at UST over the period 1998–2003. Empirical results show that the main contributing factor to TFP growth is efficiency change. That is, UST colleges are technically operating efficiently in the frontier technology; though there is a downward shift in the technological advancement. Our results further imply that with the use of output–input mix, UST colleges as a whole have recorded a higher level of technical efficiency than innovation. These new findings contribute significantly to the existing literature on efficiency and productive performance in the education sector.     

Measuring the technical efficiency of football legends: who were Real Madrid's all‐time most efficient players?

Many football players contribute to aggregate results throughout a football club's history. However, no scientific research has pinpointed the most technically efficient players in a football club's history considering their position on the field. The aim of this paper is to propose an output‐oriented nonincreasing returns to scale super‐efficiency data envelopment analysis (DEA) model in order to measure football players’ performance. The model is applied empirically to Real Madrid's best players (white legends) from the signing of Luis Molowny to Raúl González's departure. Results are also calculated and compared with the standard DEA in order to form the most efficient and super‐efficient historical squad of Real Madrid footballers.     

Assessing the values of EC and IT separately and simultaneously and inputs substitution and complement: The CES-based stochastic frontier approaches

The objective of this research is to critically explore four interrelated issues at the country level by evaluating the values of e-commerce (EC) and information technology (IT) both separately and simultaneously; examining the possibilities of complementarity and substitutability phenomena; analyzing the impacts of substitution and complement relations among ordinary capital, ordinary labor, and IT capital on the business values of EC and IT; and revisiting the productivity paradox by using the stochastic frontier approaches, which incorporate the CES production functions. The empirical results imply that it is important to assess the values of EC and IT simultaneously rather than separately.     

Measuring efficiency of Vietnamese public colleges: an application of the DEA‐based dynamic network approach

In Vietnam, public colleges play a crucial role in shaping the socioeconomic and educational development strategies and providing a skilled labor force needed for the country's market‐oriented economy. Using balanced panel data for 2011–2013, we use the integrated data envelopment analysis based dynamic network model to examine dynamic changes in efficiencies of public colleges in the education sector. This model allows simultaneously estimating efficiencies of financial and academic operations and the overall dynamic changes of colleges in a network structure. Our findings indicate that the overall efficiencies of colleges are, on average, 0.741 while the average efficiencies of the financial and academic operations are 0.722 and 0.760, respectively. Furthermore, the in‐city colleges are more efficient than others, 0.776 and 0.728, respectively.