Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 8 Sensitivity analysis with different cases for period weights

From: Efficiency of the teaching-industry linkage in the Australian vocational education and training

	Period weights			Overall efficiency scores
	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Dynamic	Teaching	Industry	F test
Original	0.25	0.3	0.45	0.835	0.763	0.908	6.58**
Case 1	0.1	0.35	0.55	0.832	0.758	0.906	7.24**
Case 2	0.15	0.3	0.55	0.831	0.758	0.904	6.97**
Case 3	0.15	0.35	0.50	0.834	0.760	0.908	7.08**
Case 4	0.2	0.35	0.45	0.836	0.763	0.910	6.88**
Case 5	0.2	0.3	0.50	0.833	0.761	0.906	6.79**
F test				3.1^*	0.83	4.27**

** denotes the significance level at 5%

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