An Evaluation Of The Efficiency And Effectiveness Of Some Higher Education Institutions In Indonesia

Agustiar, (1982) An Evaluation Of The Efficiency And Effectiveness Of Some Higher Education Institutions In Indonesia. Doctoral thesis, Columbia University.

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Abstract

This thesis postulates that evaluation is an important means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education. Three major problems addressed in the thesis are: . how to assess or evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education, . what variables account for the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education, . how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education. To investigate the problems, two kinds of data are collected from six state institutions of higher education in Indonesia. The first kind is the data collected by using questionnaires administered to students,teaching staff and administrators. The second kind is the data collected from the records available at the institutions under study. Data analyses are performed in accordance with the specific questions addressed. These culminate especially in factor analyses, regression and commonality analyses and path analyses. The following major results are discussed: • the main dimensions of student educational satisfaction, . the important variables that account for and help explain student performance, . the important variables that account for the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education, . a set of general criteria with which to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education, . a parsimonious causal path model for evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution of higher education .

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