As globally generated trends of education decentralization and alternative modes of education provision ripple out from national centers, this research examines what is intended by “decentralized” education in one country, how it is perceived by decentralization actors, and why …
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Parent involvement has been shown to be very important to students' academic success, yet in most schools in Saudi Arabia it has been limited to reviewing the students' lessons at home and attending parent teacher conferences. Parents cannot influence the curriculum or the polic…
This qualitative case study examines issues concerning the goals for language planning for English as perceived by participants involved in English language teaching and English acquisition planning in Malaysia. It situates the problem of the decline in English proficiency in Ma…
The purpose of this study was to explore the utility of Hall's (1961) conceptualization of Max Weber's (1946) theory of bureaucracy as an analytical tool in Turkey. The population was 1946 teachers in 91 public schools that employ five or more teachers. The instruments were dist…
Teachers' poor performance is estimated to prevail among 5-10 percent of the teaching force. Despite its damage to pupils and to schools' reputation it has been rarely studied. Two major empirical works (Bridges, 1986,1992 Wragg et al., 1999) described its antecedents and admini…
The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that have a direct impact on attitudes toward work, that is to examine the relationship between personal characteristics, educational experiences and environment in which the students lived and attitudes toward work among seni…
This study examined the nature and extent of local participation in the development of a residential facility for rural primary school students in West Malaysia. The first purpose of the study was to examine the processes through which local participation was initiated. The seco…
In recent years, there has been much written about the role of the principal and the many and varied styles of effectiveness. This study focuses on the perceptions of high school teachers in the New York City School system with regard to the perceived effectiveness of their prin…
The purposes of this study were (1) to compare perceptions of school climate measured by 10 subscales of the NASSP School Climate Survey and student satisfaction measured by 8 subscales of the Student Satisfaction Survey of language-minority students to those of non-language-min…
School reform efforts have failed time and again to bring about enduring and substantive enhancements to student learning. The most recent crusade to upgrade American public schools is championed by advocates as distinctive from previous reform movements. Proponents portray it a…
This study of the relative influence of family and school characteristics on mathematics achievement for 435 individuals in 55 schools in rural areas of four selected districts in Pakistan uses as the measures of family characteristics: (1) the parents' level of education and (2…
This study investigated the historical development of education in Igboland of Nigeria and ways for its democratization. It critically examined the roles played by the colonial government and the Christian Missionaries in the establishment of schools in Igboland. The study went …
The Nigerian media, scholars and the literature made frequent reference to a decline of education in the post civil war Nigeria. Ike theorized that the Nigerian school populations that performed brilliantly in the West African School Certificate examination were those with well-…
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between organizational climate and organizational commitment of teachers in secondary public schools in the city of Bursa in Turkey. Specifically, the objective of this study was to determine the strength of the relationsh…
This paper analyzes the current situation at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) in relation to customer satisfaction and examines the various parameters that influence customer service. Central to the paper is the identification of critical customer requirements and how E…
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe supervisory conferences as a means of EFL teacher development within the Indonesian non-formal sector of education. The study examined teacher development at both the pre-service and in-service stages. To capture the general p…
The general purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational input measures in an existing government data base and school achievement in South Sulawesi. The specific purposes were (1) to identify and develop school effectiveness predictors within th…
The qualitative research that forms the central focus of this dissertation is an instrumental case study of an elementary school in Netanya, Israel which successfully sustained a nationally acclaimed school reform process through a transition of principals. The study explores se…
Attempts to understand girls' schooling outcomes in Pakistan have focussed on the economic, socio-cultural, school system, health and nutrition and geographic environments in which girls receive education. Many development theorists argue that educational policy makers go down "…