What Make Students Participate in School Organizations? The Role of Motivation and School Environment

This study aimed to determine the various motivations of students in participating in school organizations. These school organizations play an important role in fostering educational success and include intra-curricular and extracurricular activities. The school organizations discussed in this article were student council (known as Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah or OSIS) and extracurricular activities. This study consisted of a literature review. Based on the results, students’ motivation in participating in school organizations can be categorized into two types, namely internal and external motivation. Internal motivation is that which comes from within the individual, and external motivation is an influence that comes from outside the individual. The motivation of students may affect their activeness in participating in organizations and their daily activities. Keywords: student participation, motivation, school organization

Increasing Latinx Youth Engagement Across Different Types of After-School Organizations

This article explores how Latinx youth engagement practices vary across different types of out-of-school organizations that successfully sustain Latinx youth participation. Data are drawn from a qualitative study of 13 California organizations that each emphasize one of 3 missions: social justice youth development, “one-stop” wrap-around services, or academic enrichment. While all organizations are found to adhere to a core set of Latinx youth development guiding principles, there are nuanced differences in how they are operationalized in practice across varied organization types, reflecting variation in terms of discourse, scale, and scope. These findings highlight the need for youth development practitioners and collaborating researchers to understand the context of youth-serving organizations when identifying and implementing promising practices and extension programs.

Implementation of Learning Organization in School

The human resource development aspect is an important and significant element in ensuring a school organization to achieve and realize the vision and goals of the school organization. To ensure that school organizations respond appropriately, responsively and efficiently to all challenges and expectations in the 21st century, school organizations are required to implement transformation and transition into a genuine learning organization in order to survive and maintain their excellence. The current study aims to investigate the level of implementation of learning organization practices in school organization according to teachers' perceptions in Melaka Tengah District, Melaka. This study employed a quantitative research design. Using the instrument, Learning Organisation Practices Profile (LOPP), the study collected data from 500 teachers from thirteen school organization located in Melaka Tengah District, Melaka that is chosen based on cluster and simple random sampling. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 25 for Windows was used to analyze the Learning Organization practices in the school organization. Based on the analysis of mean scores obtained from the twelve components contained in LOPP, it was found that the level of learning organization practice in the school organizations studied is at a high level. The most practiced components in the school organization studied are organizational climate, information flow and executive practices while the least practiced and need to be given more emphasis are the reward and recognition component, management practices and performance goals and feedback. The findings of this study show the importance of developing human resources by cultivating a culture of learning organization in school organizations.

Psychological Barriers to Participating in Scientific Research Activities of Undergraduate Students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Scientific research is one of the important tasks of students at university. Encouraging students to participate in scientific research contributes greatly to improving the quality of training and student output. This study investigates psychological barriers to participating in scientific research activities of students in terms of awareness, interest and scientific research skills. The study was carried out on a sample of 206 third-year students at a number of universities in Ho Chi Minh City. Research results showed that 17.5% of students have low barriers, 68.4% have medium barriers and 14.1% have high barriers. The barriers of interest and skills are more than awareness ones, these three aspects are positively correlated. There is no statistical difference between male, female and between majors in the level of psychological barriers to participate in scientific research. In order to promote students to participate in scientific research activities, schools, lecturers and school organizations need to pay attention and have appropriate solutions to help them remove psychological barriers.

Capacity building and organizational development of kindergarten and playgroups principals in Gresik District

The purpose of this service is to increase the capacity and organizational development of Kindergartens and playgroups principals in Gresik Regency. The methods used are lectures, self-reports, and assignments. This activity was attended by 74 school principals from 45 Kindergartens and 39 playgroups. The materials given were the strategic functions and roles of leaders in organizational development, the introduction of leadership behavior that is oriented towards organizational development, the process of organizational development: theory and practice, the development of a hardiness personality to support the effectiveness of organizational development. The result of this workshop was that the principal increasingly understood his/her strategic role as a leader in school organizations.

The cyber-work performance of managers in education

PurposeThis study addresses the perspective of N = 273 school principals as related to technology role in performing managerial roles.Design/methodology/approachIn the context of this study, the concept of technology only refers to digital office tools such as microcomputers, email and administrative software. The concept of managerial roles is understood and used herein in relation to the definition provided by Mintzberg (2013) in his managerial typology. Moreover, a survey method was used to collect data from the aforementioned managerial employees. The managerial typology of Mintzberg was applied as a theoretical lens to collect and interpret survey data.FindingsThe findings suggest that surveyed school principals believe that technology use improves their ability to perform informational and decisional roles at work. Arguably, these managerial employees are satisfied with using technology as a labor tool for administrative and managerial work.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited because its sample size does not allow the findings to be generalized to all Canadian school principals. Nevertheless, the findings are significant because they suggest that similar to the positive technology-related attitude of managerial employees in business organizations, those in school organizations also perceive technology as an organizational asset. For that reason, management scholars should not only limit their studies of the intersection between technology and managerial roles or work to business organizations. They also need to extend their research studies and fieldwork to school organizations.Originality/valueThe originality of this study lies in the fact that in management literature, the intersection between technology and the managerial roles of school principals is underresearched. As such, this study represents a step forward toward the need to study the technology-related behaviors of school principals to better understand how technology use enables their workflow system.

Pengaruh Keaktifan Mengikuti Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah (OSIS) Terhadap Hasil Belajar Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) di Bengkulu

This study aims to determine the effect of active participation in the Intra School Student Organization (OSIS) on student learning outcomes in the subject of Islamic Religious Education at SMA Negeri 09 Bengkulu City. This type of research is a quantitative study with an associative quantitative approach. Test the validity of the instrument using SPSS16 with Product Moment Correlation and reliability also using SPSS16 with Cronbach's Alpha. The results showed that the activeness of intra-school organizations had an effect on student learning outcomes. This is evidenced by the t count of 2.981 while the t table of 2.064 at the significant level of 0.05. Based on these results t count is greater than t table. So it can be concluded that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected so that there is an effect of active participation of intra-school organizations on student learning outcomes by 4% while the remaining 96% is influenced by other factors not examined in this study. This can be seen from the value of R Square.

Organisasi Sekolah di Masa Pandemi

The purpose of this study is to find a picture of how the condition of the school organization during the pandemic, from the scope of individuals, social groups, relationships between organizations, relationships between institutions, and policies. The subjects of this study are literature, literature sources that discuss pandemics, conditions, individual attitudes in school organizations, relationships with social groups, communities, institutions and policies. The results of this study explain that in order for schools to continue to achieve educational goals with good quality, the integration of functions between school principals, teachers, and all school resources, groups of educators and education staff organizations, between organizations, institutions in society, and policies must work. in harmony. Conclusion, Keywords: Pandemic, School, Organization, Ecology, Social.

School sports organizations as learning organizations: Good practice examples in two management issues

BACKGROUND: Finding solutions to increase the efficiency of school organizations is needed in Romanian national education system. In this context, a previous general theoretical approach on school as learning organization (SLO) has been developed based on the literature review. Most, the article debates the case of the sport schools (whether they are school sports clubs or schools with integrated sports program) in the context of the pre-university education system. Due to the proximity to performances in competitions and the pressures they exert, this type of schools should be much more willing to collaborate and keen to learn and adapt. Therefore, it is more likely to develop elements specific to the concept of learning organization. OBJECTIVE: The research aims to establish to what extent certain key-characteristics specific to the integrated model of school as learning organization are identifiable at the level of the sport schools’ organization. METHODS: The research is based on data collected in a diachronic way, from two consecutive school years and from two samples with a total of 471 urban and rural schools, out of which 34 are school sports organizations. The data were collected from 471 external quality audit reports of the schools. Statistical checks using z parameter tests (two-tail) were developed to determine whether the results of each sample are reliable and whether the two samples could be concatenated. RESULTS: At the samples’ level, the minimum levels of incidence of several key-characteristics of SLO’s can be identified, these varying between 55.88% and 85.29% for school sports organizations and between 50.74% and 71.76% for school organizations without a sports program. These results were only for three action-oriented dimensions of the proposed SLO integrated model: “creating and supporting continuous learning opportunities for all staff”, “embedding systems for collecting and exchanging knowledge and learning” and “learning with and from the external environment and larger learning system”. CONCLUSIONS: The research results are related to two management practices regarding “cooperation and collaboration inside and outside school boundaries” and “support that is provided to continuous learning opportunities for all staff”. Thus, the results will be used to provide evidence to support the implementation of the SLO model at Romanian national level and, in the long run, to help increase the schools’ efficiency.

Technical Ceremonies: Rationalization, Opacity, and the Restructuring of Educational Organizations

After decades of accountability and market-based reforms in education, school systems are now organizing more around improving teaching and learning. Yet these efforts frequently yield unintended, superficial, or even counterproductive changes at the school level. In this article, Maxwell Yurkofsky develops the concept of technical ceremonies as a way of theorizing this emerging pattern of school organizations. Technical ceremonies involve educators changing their practice to align with new reforms in a way that privileges what is visible and measurable as a way of appeasing external stakeholders over more substantive improvements to practice. He argues that technical ceremonies arise as principals navigate a multitude of surface-level demands from the environment and the uncertainties that pervade efforts to transform teaching and learning.