Alternatives to school exclusion: interviews with head teachers in England

The paper examined different areas of management in relation to Nomadic Education programme and looked into policy statement which is enshrined in the National Policy on Education and definition regarding to management. System theory was also used in order to examine issues o f effective management in schools. Administrators roles in schools was discussed such as mutual respect, shared ideas and the process in establishing nomadic schools with a lot of considerations before erecting the structure. School plant planning was discussed in respect of managers/head teachers in managing the schools toward the achieving educational goals. The paper also examined the component that helps in achieving the goals which are management structure, the hierarchical model to the management o f nomadic schools and how it will really help in managing the school activities. Lastly the paper made some recommendations, such as, government should provide the needed teaching and learning materials for successful attaining goals etc.

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Adaptation of Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Model of Training Criteria to Evaluate Training Programmes for Head Teachers

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci11030116 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 116

Author(s):

Aljawharah Alsalamah ◽

Carol Callinan

Keyword(s):

Learning Outcomes ◽

Evaluation Model ◽

Training Process ◽

Educational Training ◽

Head Teachers ◽

Female Head ◽

Assessment Of Learning ◽

Level Model ◽

Four Levels ◽

Training Programmes

Training programmes are evaluated to verify their effectiveness, assess their ability to achieve their goals and identify the areas that require improvement. Therefore, the target of evaluators is to develop an appropriate framework for evaluating training programmes. This study adapted Kirkpatrick’s four-level model of training criteria published in 1959 to evaluate training programmes for head teachers according to their own perceptions and those of their supervisors. The adapted model may help evaluators to conceptualise the assessment of learning outcomes of training programmes with metrics and instruments. The model also helps to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the training process. The adaptation includes concrete metrics and instruments for each of the four levels in the model: reaction criteria, learning criteria, behaviour criteria and results criteria. The adapted model was applied to evaluate 12 training programmes for female head teachers in Saudi Arabia. The study sample comprised 250 trainee head teachers and 12 supervisors. The results indicated that the adapted Kirkpatrick evaluation model was very effective in evaluating educational training for head teachers.

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