Areas of School Improvement: Consensus of Various Educational Stakeholders

Norazana  Mohd Nor; Ahmad Zabidi  Abdul Razak; Razali  Muda

This study was conducted to find the consensus about areas of school improvement (SI) from the perspectives of 21 key educational stakeholders consisted of education policymakers, theoretical experts, community leaders and parents. The study mainly adopted a quantitative approach through e-Delphi study by the use of surveys and questionnaires. Three rounds of e-Delphi study were conducted to identify areas of SI involving 21 panellist of experts. The tool used to collect data during e-Delphi was a four-point Likert scale (1=Strongly Agree, 2=Agree, 3=Disagree, 4= Strongly Disagree). This study considered 90% of the percentage agreement among the experts as the value to define consensus. Questionnaires were developed based on the experts’ suggestions as an instrument for a survey to four strata of respondents; lecturers at MOE, chairmen of PTA, officers at District Education Office and headmasters. A three-point Likert scale (Excellent, Moderate and Need Improvement) was used for this survey. The findings revealed nine areas of SI as agreed by the experts which were; Leadership and Management, Teacher Professional Development, School Culture, Student Learning Outcome, Instruction, Community Involvement, ICT in education, Curriculum and Support for Learning. The results of the study showed that there were eight items across six areas of SI that needed to be improved; Teachers’ welfare, Leadership innovation, Pre-training before appointment of school leaders, Races unity, Student’s learning potential, ICT literacy among school leaders, ICT literacy among teachers and Unity/National integration. It is expected that the findings of this study would offer valuable implications for researchers, policy makers and practitioners.

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