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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2021.22.5.517

An Analysis of Change in Efficiency of Department of Early Childhood Education in KOREA  

Song, Woon-Kyung (Department of Business Administration, Korea Aerospace University)
Song, Yun-Kyung (Department of Early Childhood Education, Woosong University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.22, no.5, 2021 , pp. 517-529 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyzes changes in the efficiency of the Department of Early Childhood Education in Korea to examine the effectiveness of the National Evaluation for Teacher Education Institution. We provide policy implications from exploring factors influencing efficiency and comparing characteristics of efficient and inefficient departments. With 149 Department of Early Childhood Education in Korea, DEA was conducted to estimate the relative efficiency, and the Tobit model was applied to explore factors affecting efficiency. The results confirm that the Department of Early Childhood in Korea is run efficiently, though there was no change in scale efficiency and relative efficiency after the two phases of the National Evaluation for Teacher Education Institution. The results show the number of books per student was significantly lower despite a significantly higher employment rate. Efficiency of college departments, department greater than 60 (per cohort), and department in metropolitan city (except Seoul area) is confirmed greater. These results provide policy implications on developing evaluation measure and processes to improve education quality and efficiency.
Keywords
Department of Early Childhood Education; DEA; Efficiency; National Evaluation for Teacher Education Institution; Evaluation effectiveness;
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