The education development in Brazil has been influenced by government policies, especially those directed at higher learning. To judge the effectiveness of these policies it is necessary to evaluate the quality of the teaching offered, particularly with respect to public education. In this context, there have been many initiatives for new postgraduate programs. To be accredited, these programs must be approved by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), part of the Ministry of Education. Among the many criteria considered by CAPES, the academic production is the most important. Many works proposing approaches to classify college programs based on faculty bibliographical output have been published; among these, those based on data envelopment analysis stand out. The present work uses grey relational analysis based approach. Another difference is that the information is considered on a masterâs program not yet accredited, that is, one that still needs to be evaluated by CAPES. A classification is established for this program in relation to the ones already accredited along with a way to identify the improvement points and an improvement factor for each attribute considered. The results indicate that the approach is efficient in relation to that based on traditional data envelopment analysis and suggest areas for future research in this area.
A hybrid method of grey relational analysis and data envelopment analysis for evaluating and selecting efficient suppliers plus a novel ranking method for grey numbers
