Theses (Ed.S.)--Marshall University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains 47 p. Bibliography: p. 29-33.

Thesis (M.S.)--Tennessee Temple University, 1988. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 51).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 1999. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-135).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-159). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004.

M.Ed. / Hoofstuk een voorsien die agtergrond tot die navorsing asook ‘n beskrywing van die probleme. Dit bevat die doel van die navorsing, die metodologie wat gevolg is en gee ‘n uitklaring van konsepte wat in die navorsing gebruik is. Hoofstuk twee fokus op ‘n uiteensetting van die onderwerp van die navorsing, naamlik DIE ASSESSERING VAN OUERBETROKKENHEID AS ‘N ASPEK VAN GEHEELSKOOL-EVALUERING. Die doel van die navorsingsprojek was om te bepaal watter aspekte noodsaaklik is vir die doeltreffende betrokkenheid van ouers by skoolbestuur. Om hierdie doel te verwesenlik is ‘n lite ratuurstudie onderneem wat as basis vir die empiriese navorsing gedien het. Die bespreking in hoofstuk twee handel oor die vernaamste vorme van ouerbetrokkenheid, huis-en-skoolinteraksie, die impak van ouerbetrokkenheid by skoolbestuur en die hantering van hindernisse vir doeltreffende ouerbetrokkenheid. Die studie ondersteun die siening dat ouerbetrokkenheid die perspektiewe van onderwysers verbreed en hulle sensitiwiteit vir die uiteenlopende omstandighede van ouers verhoog. Deur die bevordering van ouerbetrokkenheid kan onderwysers kennis en ‘n begrip van kinders se huise, gesinne en buite -skoolbedrywighede bekom wat lei tot hoë vlakke van akademiese prestasie by kinders. Die ontwerp van die navorsingsprojek is in hoofstuk drie uiteengesit. ‘n Beskrywing van die empiriese ondersoek is voorsien. Die vraelys is bespreek en die verloop van die navorsing kortliks aangeraak. Al die vrae met betrekking tot doeltreffende ouerbetrokkenheid het gelei tot gemiddelde tellings tussen 3,73 en 4,59. Die ontled ing en interpretasie van die empiriese data is in hoofstuk vier bespreek. Die konstrukgeldigheid van die navorsingsinstrument is deur middel van twee opeenvolgende faktoranalitiese prosedures ondersoek en sodoende is die 40 items tot twee faktore gereduseer, naamlik: · doeltreffende ouerbetrokkenheid bestaande uit 21 items met ‘n betroubaarheidskoëffisiënt van 0,9129; · doeltreffende kommunikasie bestaande uit 19 items met ‘n betroubaarheidskoëffisiënt van 0,8924. Die statistiese ontleding van die navorsing is beperk tot ‘n vergelyking van een voorbeeld van twee onafhanklike groepe met een voorbeeld van drie of meer onafhanklike groepe. Hipoteses is opgestel en multivariante statistieke gebruik om die data te ontleed en te interpreteer. Na hierdie oorsigtelike opsomming van die aspekte wat in die huidige navorsing aangeraak is, word belangrike bevindings wat uit die navorsing voortspruit gemaak. / Prof. B.R. Grobler

M.Ed. / In Chapter One, light was shed on the description of the problem, the outline of the problem, the methodology used and clarification of some of the concepts that were used in this research. The problem that the Department of Education faced after 1994 was that there had been no system of evaluating the performance of schools or comprehensive data on the quality of teaching and learning or standards achieved in South African schools. These problems led to the introduction of the policy on Whole School Evaluation, which aims at analyzing the performance of schools, and also to help schools improve. This study therefore investigated the way in which this policy is implemented and the role-played by school districts. A focused literature review was conducted and a structured questionnaire was used. Chapter Two focused on the review of literature based on THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WHOLE SCHOOL EVALUATION. The main aim of the research project was to see how school district teams provide support to schools in the implementation of WSE, which would lead to improvements at schools, and the enhancement of education. Against this background, the question is: How will schools benefit from the implementation of WSE? The study supports the view that schools, educators and school districts need to be accountable to their clients, and the department must ensure that all learners receive quality education. To achieve this, schools need to be evaluated and supported so that suitable strategies are put in place and a suitable range of management information is made available to enhance performance. From the literature review, it became clear that, in countries where WSE has been implemented, the accountability of stakeholders has increased and the performance of schools has improved with the help of recommendations that translate into School Improvement Plans (SIP). The design of the research was explained in Chapter Three. A description of the empirical investigation was provided. The questionnaire was discussed and the course of the research was briefly outlined. The items (questions) were arranged into three factors and ranked according to their mean scores. One of the questions that ranked high was the question that aimed at finding out if respondents thought that WSE should be conducted at all schools. This question had a mean score of 5,08, which means the majority of respondents (81,5%) agreed or strongly agreed that WSE should be conducted in all schools, probably because it is mandated. The analysis and interpretation of the empirical data were discussed in Chapter Four. The construction validity of the research instrument was investigated by means of two successive factor analytical procedures that reduce the 50 items to just three factors namely: • The extent to which educators feel positive about WSE (FB) 25 items with a Gronbach-alpha-reliability coefficient of 0,9202. • The general support (indirect) provided by school districts to schools (FC 1): 17 items with a Gronbach-alpha-reliability coefficient of 0,9202. • The specific (direct) support provided by school districts to school (FC 2): 7 items with a Gronbach-alpha-reliability coefficient of 0,8802. The three factors could thus serve as a basis for evaluating the role of school districts in the implementation of WSE. The detailed statistical analysis of the research was confined to a comparison of one example of two independent groups and one example of three or more independent groups. Hypotheses were set and multivariate statistics were used to analyse and interpret the data. The Hotelling T² test was used to examine the difference in the vector means if the two factors were taken together. Where significant differences were found at multivariate level, they were further investigated by means of the Student t-test. For three or more groups, the multivariate hypothesis on, for example, age was investigated, using the MANOVA. Where there was a statistically significant differences, the researcher investigated further by means of Scheffe and Dunnett T3 tests. After this summary of the aspects discussed during the research, findings emanating from the research are made. These findings are now briefly examined and recommendations for the role of the school district in the implementation of WSE are made.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1999. / Title from title page screen, viewed July 24, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Kenneth H. Strand, Jeffrey B. Hecht (co-chairs), Paul J. Baker, William C. Rau. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-148) and abstract. Also available in print.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mary Angela Teixeira Brandalie.pdf: 799995 bytes, checksum: ef7fefc70d0aa96e41034e32bb4faacd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-13 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Different perspectives on the evaluation of schools have of late been the object of analysis and debate in Brazil as in so many other countries. The focus in this case is the school and the process of evaluation it undergoes both internally and externally. Taking into account that the internal evaluation of schools, as a collective process, does not yet constitute a standard practice in most schools, and considering in addition that scientific literature on this theme is still scarce, especially in Brazil, the aim of this research is to organize a significant and effective process of institutional self-evaluation in elementary schools. The point which is addressed is how to work out a process of institutional self-evaluation in elementary schools, by means of concepts, procedures and innovative analytical tools, and with the ultimate aim of achieving institutional development.The subjects of the research are teachers, school employees and parents belonging to a public school in the state of Paraná which provides basic education at the levels of what is known in Brazil as Educação Básica and Ensino Fundamental.The first chapter discusses the theoretical foundations of educational evaluation, pointing out the centrality of this issue in our days: the consequences of the presence of the state as an evaluator, as well as the relations involving school, curriculum and evaluation.In order to deepen the understanding of the conceptions of educational evaluation in relation to the social, political and economic contexts, chapter two investigates the evolution of the conceptions of evaluation, the epistemological areas in which the investigations on evaluation are developed, and the importance of coherence in the development of school evaluation.Chapter three develops a reflection on the theoretical and practical assumptions which underly the process of school self-evaluation, as a result of a joint enterprise and chapter four outlines the methodological procedure, which is called pesquisa-ação institucional (institutional research-action) as well as the procedures involving the documental analysis, the research record, the focal group and the questionnaire.In order to obtain the answers to the closed questions in the questionnaire, the data were tabulated and organized in tables and graphs. The answers to the open questions and to the transcribed discussions of the focal groups were based on the software Qualiquantisoft, a program developed for the methodological procedure Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo DSC (Discourse of the Collective Subject), which enabled the construction of a series of discurse syntheses that make up chapter five. Presented and analyzed in the light of the theoretical framework, these pieces of discourse contribute to the apprehension of the meaning which teachers, parents, students and school employees attribute to the educative actions in the process of school evaluation, creating, in this sense, a colective construction of knowledge concerning self-evaluation. Finally, the research confirms that self-evaluation can be carried out collectively in schools when it is developed in a dialectic-critical fashion, by people belonging to the school community. It is believed, on the one hand, that this research will contribute to rendering explicit the complexity involved in the construction of a process of self-evaluation in schools, and on the other, that it will be able point to new ways for constructing a new culture in school evaluation, capable achieving both professional and institutional development: school self-evaluation as a collective process inside the schools themselves / Diferentes perspectivas sobre a avaliação das instituições escolares vêm sendo analisadas e debatidas tanto no contexto brasileiro como no plano internacional. Trata-se de utilizar como objeto de estudo a escola e a avaliação que nela e dela se faz. Partindo-se da premissa que a avaliação interna da escola como processo coletivo não constitui ainda uma prática na grande maioria das instituições escolares e que é escassa a produção científica sobre essa problemática, em especial na literatura brasileira, propôs-se esta pesquisa, cujo propósito é construir um processo de auto-avaliação institucional significativa e efetiva para a escola básica. Procura-se responder à seguinte questão norteadora: como construir um processo de autoavaliação institucional na escola básica, disponibilizando-se conceitos, procedimentos e instrumentos analíticos inovadores e voltados ao desenvolvimento institucional? A pesquisa teve como espaço/sujeitos da investigação professores, funcionários e pais de uma escola que oferta a Educação Básica, nas modalidades de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental, localizada em município paranaense. O primeiro capítulo traz a fundamentação teórica sobre avaliação educacional, abordando a centralidade da discussão na contemporaneidade: a presença do Estado Avaliador e suas conseqüências, e as relações entre escola, currículo e avaliação. Para aprofundar o entendimento das concepções de avaliação educacional e suas relações com os contextos sociais, políticos e econômicos, aborda-se no segundo capítulo a evolução das concepções de avaliação, os espaços epistemológicos nos quais as investigações avaliativas se assentam e a importância da coerência no desenvolvimento da avaliação da e na escola. No terceiro capítulo reflete-se sobre os pressupostos teórico-práticos de um processo de auto-avaliação da escola construído coletivamente. A pesquisa-ação institucional, opção metodológica adotada, e os procedimentos da análise documental, do diário de pesquisa, do grupo focal e o questionário compõem o quarto capítulo. Para a apresentação das respostas das questões fechadas dos questionários, os dados foram tabulados e organizados em tabelas e gráficos. As respostas das questões abertas e das discussões transcritas dos grupos focais basearam-se no software qualiquantisoft, programa desenvolvido para o procedimento metodológico do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo DSC, que possibilitou a construção de uma série de discursos sínteses que compõem o quinto capítulo. Apresentados e analisados à luz do referencial teórico, tais discursos contribuem para a apreensão dos sentidos que os professores, pais, alunos e funcionários conferem às ações educativas ao avaliarem a escola, possibilitando assim a construção coletiva de um conhecimento acerca da auto-avaliação. Finalmente, a pesquisa confirma que a auto-avaliação pode ser desenvolvida coletivamente nas instituições escolares, desde que assentada numa postura dialético-crítica, tendo pessoas da comunidade escolar como sujeitos dessa ação. Por um lado, acredita-se que o trabalho poderá contribuir para explicitar a complexidade que envolve a construção de um processo de autoavaliação da escola; por outro, que ele permitirá apontar caminhos para a construção de uma nova cultura de avaliação nos espaços escolares, capaz de viabilizar tanto o desenvolvimento profissional quanto o institucional: a autoavaliação da escola como processo construído coletivamente nas instituições escolares