Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions Versus Production Frontiers

Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions Versus Production Frontiers

This paper suggests an alternative to the standard practice of measuring the graduation rate performance using regression analysis. The alternative is production frontier analysis. Production frontier analysis is appealing because it compares an institution's graduation rate to the best perform...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research in higher education 2008-02, Vol.49 (1), p.80-100
Hauptverfasser: Archibald, Robert B., Feldman, David H.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Academic achievement
Accountability
College students
Colleges
Comparative Analysis
Economies of scale
Education
Efficiency metrics
Evaluation Methods
Graduation
Graduation Rate
Higher Education
Institutional Characteristics
Linear regression
Production efficiency
Quadrants
Regression analysis
Student Rights
Universities
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Zusammenfassung:This paper suggests an alternative to the standard practice of measuring the graduation rate performance using regression analysis. The alternative is production frontier analysis. Production frontier analysis is appealing because it compares an institution's graduation rate to the best performance instead of the average performance. The paper explains the differences between these two types of analysis and provides examples of their application using data for 187 national universities.
ISSN:0361-0365
1573-188X
DOI:10.1007/s11162-007-9063-6