Análise envoltória de dados: conceitos, metodologia e estudo da arte na educação superior

Abstract

This research looks for to carry through a literature revision, in order to get a historical referencial of the methodology of evaluation of the productivity, efficiency and its evolution for the methodology of Data Envelopment Analysis - DEA, as tool of the evaluation of the superior education. In Brazil, the first works using technique DEA in the construction of measures of IES evaluation have origin in groups of research of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The DEA, being thus, is one not-parametric technique that uses mathematical programming to construct borders of production of productive units - DMUs that use similar technological processes to transform input multiples into multiple products. Such borders are used to evaluate the relative efficiency of the plans of operation executed by the DMUs and serve, also, as reference for the establishment of efficient goals for each productive unit. The DEA was developed to evaluate the efficiency of organizations whose activities do not aim at profits or for which the input do not exist prices daily pay-settled for all and/or all the products. For these reasons this technique is an alternative in the study of the efficiency of the superior institutions.