Effects of an inquiry-focused school improvement program on the development of pupils’ attitudes towards curiosity, their implicit ability and effort beliefs, and goal orientations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Post ◽  
Juliette H. Walma van der Molen
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Improvement Program

scholarly journals Exploring causal relationships qualitatively: An empirical illustration of how causal relationships become visible across episodes and contexts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
School Leadership Development ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity ◽  
Empirical Illustration

AbstractCausal relationships are traditionally examined in quantitative research. However, this article informs the discussion surrounding the potential use of qualitative data to explore causal relationships qualitatively through an empirical illustration of a school leadership development team. As school leadership development is supposed to offer continuing development to practicing school leaders, it brings into question the issue of causal relationships. This study analyzes audio and video recordings from 10 workshops involving a team of principals, municipality leaders, and researchers who met over two years to support the principals in leading a local school improvement program. The process data are organized into episodes and analyzed in three layers of causation an interpretative layer, a contradictory layer, and an agentive layer grounded in cultural-historical activity theory. When tracing a problem statement across episodes and relating the processes to events in a principal’s practice, causal relationships became visible across the episodes and contexts. The argument, then, is that the results are achieved in the processes. As such, process data can reveal causal relationships that quantitative data cannot.

scholarly journals The Swedish Context Bringing Support Structures to Scale: The Role of the State and School Districts

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Olof Johansson ◽  
Helene Ärlestig
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
Project Structure

AbstractThis chapter explores the “theory of action” underlying the Swedish government’s national school improvement program called Cooperation for Better Schools. We discuss particularly the assumptions about the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders, including schools, school districts, and universities. Our analysis focuses on the issue of institutional capacity for sustained system improvement. In this regard, our approach draws on the perspectives associated with contemporary policy analysis, which includes greater attention to qualitative and interpretive methods to understand the complexity of policy-induced change in contemporary society. We start by describing the project structure and our method. Thereafter, we analyze the government’s understanding and arguments for why it is important to help underperforming schools, before we give examples about how involved actors define problems and solutions in project documents. In the conclusion, we highlight strengths and deficits in the improvement process.

scholarly journals How female principals nurture adult learning opportunities in successful high schools with challenging student demographics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Dana Moad Woodward
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Missouri School Improvement Program ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Female Principals

Based on Cueva's (2010) learning strategies, this study investigated adult learning strategies successful high school female principals use to nurture adult learning opportunities at their schools in the state of Missouri. Public high schools were selected based on their 2019 Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP 5) performance standards and indicators. Their principals were asked to complete a survey online and self-select to be interviewed. The findings indicated that principals take their role as instructional leaders seriously and seek to use learning strategies for understanding, conversation, and action. The most frequently used adult learning strategy is Nurturing Place while the least used is Creative Expressions. The principals desire more time and resources to help their teachers learn.

scholarly journals Implementasi Manajemen Strategis pada Program School Improvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Farid Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Research Findings

<p><em>Madrasa quality improvement is a crucial thing in the progress of Islamic education in Indonesia. School Improvement is a program that works to improve the quality of madrasas, especially at MTsS Maqama Mahmuda. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of the strategic management process that occurred at MTsS Maqama Mahmuda from the school improvement program. The form of this research is descriptive qualitative with the subject of the study consisting of the chairman of the foundation, the head of the madrasa, the teaching staff, the teaching staff and one parent of the santri. The data used in this study are primary data that is the result of non-participatory observation and in-depth interviews and secondary data, which are documents that support this research. Based on the research results, several research findings can be found, including: 1) There is an analysis of the internal and external environment of madrasas in preparing strategic plans in the School Improvement Program 2) Formulation and reformulation of strategic planning by considering risk management 3) Implementation of effective strategic management through commitment and consistency from educators and education staff 3) Effective control and evaluation system by prioritizing the principle of rigor, transparency, accountability and sustainability. So it can be concluded that through the implementation of effective and efficient strategic management at MTsS Maqama Mahmuda has produced good performance from the School Improvement Program</em><em>.</em></p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Leadership Role in Taking Accountability Measures for School Improvement in Punjab

sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 493-504
Author(s):  
Ishra Batool ◽  
Dr. Seema Arif ◽  
Muhammad Nadeem
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Participative Leadership ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
Whole School

There is little research on the school principal leadership role for monitoring and evaluating school performance, while Pakistan being the signatory of Sustainable Development Goals, is committed to achieving quality education. Planned changes are undergoing in the governance structures (school accountability) affecting schools in general, particularly school principals. The province of Punjab has excelled in implementing School Reform Roadmap (a whole school improvement program) and conducting a monthly assessment to monitor and evaluate Literacy and Numeracy Drive (LND), an initiative to measure 3rd graders' educational attainment.  This research was conducted to review how the leadership role impacts achieving policy-mandated initiatives (LND) for schools' improvement. A case study method was opted for exploring the opinions of school principals from one district of Punjab. A self-constructed questionnaire comprising closed-ended items was used to get opinions from 194 elementary and primary school principals, while were interviewed to get detailed insight into barriers to school improvement and suggestion for better monitoring and evaluation. The case concludes that the participative leadership style is more prevalent among school principals, but the delegative style is more effective for school improvement.  Most of the infrastructural facilities are now available in schools, but unfortunately, computer lab and computer teachers are not available in most primary and elementary schools, which is the necessity of LND. The results inform that student attendance is still problematic for schools, and this challenge alone can negatively affect School Sector Reform goals.

scholarly journals The Implementation of School Improvement Program in Ethiopia: Emphasis on Bahir Dar City Secondary Schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerusalem Yizengaw
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Bahir Dar ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Management Domain

<p>The main purpose of this research is to establish an assessment of the implementation of school improvement program: a comparative study between government and private secondary schools of Ethiopia in Bahir Dar city administration. In the city administration there are a total of 17 secondary schools of which 11 schools is public and the rest 6 are private owned. Based on proximity, this study purposively took 3 public and 2 private secondary schools. Simple random sampling technique was also used to obtain 85 students from grade 10<sup>th </sup>of the entire population. Out of 85 samples, 56 respondents were taken from government schools and the rest 29 were taken from private schools. Principals, teachers, educational experts and Parent Student Teacher Association (PSTA) were selected by purposive sampling technique. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire, semi structured-interview and document analysis. The documents included school improvement policies, strategies and practices; with particular reference to recent updated in SIP. This instrument used for analyzing the SIP implementation from inspection checklist, GEQIP reports, and other related publications. The validity analysis of the respondent was done on selected respondents that can be representative of the sample population and also are in a professional level. The respondents of the pilot study have pointed out the shortages of the original data collection instrument by rendering critical suggestions, which are incorporated by revising the survey questionnaire and the calculated Cronbach Alpha for the five Likert-scale items was found to be 0.86 which indicated the reliability of the instrument. The study adopted quantitative and qualitative methodology with a descriptive research design in a comparative perspective.</p> <p> </p> <p>The present study found out that learning environment domain is the top most implemented domain in government and private schools; while, leadership and management domain is the least implemented domain in both government and private schools. There is significance difference with the implementation of learning environment and community involvement domain between government and private schools. While, there is no significance difference in the implementation of leadership and management domain and teaching and learning domain between government and private schools. It was recommended that, government should play the leading roles to create conducive environment to undertake challenges in the implementation of SIP, providing workshops, seminars and training to orient and train all stakeholders, appointment of school principals should be better if it is done based on merits, let school principals to work at one school for some academic years in able to attain consistency of the program implementation. </p>

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