التعليم الإبتدائي بالجزائر : الفعالية التقنية، عائد الحجم و تأثير العوامل الاجتماعية

Abstract EN

This study aims to measure the relative efficiency of the 50 educational state districts (DEW) in Algeria at the primary education level using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach.

We consider two classes of models according to the nature of outputs.

While we use, in class one models, the percentage of pupils passing the national final exam and the percentage of those passing with honor, we use in the second-class models’ average grades of the three subjects of the same exam as alternative outputs.

The empirical results show, that the performance of these institutions is characterized by a high degree of gross technical inefficiency estimated in average at 24% with a standard deviation of 14% for the first case and at 19% with a standard deviation of 11.6% for the second.

It seems, however, that the level of pure technical efficiency does not exceed 6.7% and 4% respectively while the remaining 17.3% and 15% are associated to scale inefficiency and to non-favorable socio-economic factors.