This study examined whether expanding educational opportunity in Indonesia had an eroding effect on the quality of education and explored policy alternatives to maintain educational quality in general and teaching quality in particular. The researcher first analyzed secondary data from the last 10 years to see whether there was a decline in the quality of education. Then, employing in-depth interviews with policy makers at the central level, a policy mediator at the provincial level, and a policy implementer at the school level, the researcher attempted to verify the findings and discover factors to explain them. The study investigated the importance of and changes in teacher qualities: it also assessed the discrepancy between policies for improving teaching quality designed at the central level and their implementation and results at the school level. / The study was conducted in Jakarta, Cirebon, Bandung, Palangkaraya, and Banjarmasin; it involved 39 respondents consisting of decision makers at the ministry, educational officials at the provincial level, deans of teacher training institutions, school supervisors, principals, and teachers. The results show that expenditure per student and educational quality in general declined. The decline is related to the changes in teacher qualities such as competence, distribution, motivation, discipline, and welfare. Also, the policies developed to improve teaching quality are more successful in providing educational means, such as raising teacher qualifications, providing teaching aids, and training, than in achieving educational ends. / Finally, the study recommended systematic improvement through short-term and long-term policy measures involving retraining of teachers, establishment of educational facility banks, reforms in the incentive system, improvement in the teacher distribution system through refining the information system and local authorization, and improving the cooperation and coordination between teacher training institutions and provincial offices of education. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3414. / Major Professor: John C. Bock. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76751 |
| Contributors | Anen, Anen., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 252 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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