Our findings suggest that, although still very much under development, DEA is usable and, given the weakness of current means of measuring efficiency in the National Health Service, that DEA has a strong claim for further consideration. Development of a program for evaluating training outputs 565 . Sixth Annual Conference on Interactive Instruction Delivery and Third Annual Conference on Learning Technology in the Health Care Sciences, Orlando, CA, USA 24-26 Feb. 1988 . Although DEA techniques have not been widely used for training efficiency analysis, the methodology, based on linear programming procedures, has been demonstrated to be valid in situations where decision-making units with varied inputs and outputs must be evaluated. The author describes an application of a DEA-based evaluation software algorithm to an international training organization.
Special consideration is given to evaluating instructional delivery systems using interactive video.
Computer aided instruction. Video and audio discs. Academy of Management Journal. Data envelopment analysis shows promise for generating objective estimates of pay equity. Applied to performance and salary data for 433 professional baseball players, data envelopment analysis identified objectively underpaid, equitably paid, and overpaid players.