Comparative analysis of international education systems

John Wang; Jun Xia; Kimberly Hollister; Yawei Wang

doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-138-6.ch001

Comparative analysis of international education systems

John Wang, Jun Xia, Kimberly Hollister, Yawei Wang

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International comparisons of educational systems are commonly practiced using subjective methods available in literature. The use of subjective methods can lead to non-standard ranking; each individual investigator inputs his or her own subjective judgment when assigning weights to measurements in each class. The complied results differ with large variations. A mathematical evaluation method based on concept of Pareto-optimal organization is proposed for this study. This method is easy to apply and uses linear programming model. The weights for various measurements are determined through an objective method. We illustrate our methodology in a comparison of the educational systems of twenty-one industrialized countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Systems and New Applications in the Service Sector
Subtitle of host publication	Models and Methods
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781609601409
ISBN (Print)	9781609601386
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-138-6.ch001
State	Published - 30 Nov 2010

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