Abstract
This study aimed at assessing the implementation of TQM in government secondary schools in improving students' academic achievement in Manyoni district Singida region. The researcher used three objectives to guide the study. To examine the association among total quality management principles and students' school success in public secondary schools in Manyoni District, to identify the challenges encountered by school heads in the whole process of quality supervision in schools and learners' academic attainment and to identify possible measures to the challenges in the implementation of total quality management in public secondary schools in Manyoni District. The study employed total quality management theory that founded by Deming in 1950s. It employed a mixed approaches research design, specifically convergent parallel mixed-method research design. The study used probability and non[1]probability in selecting sample. A total of 164 respondents from four public secondary schools were involving in the current study. The major instruments used were questionnaires that had a coefficient coloration of 0.73 to prove the reliability of the instruments. Other instruments used were in-depth interview guide. The researchers employed Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20 for analysis of quantitative data. The information were analysed using descriptive approaches such as frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations, and results presented using tables, pie charts, and bar graphs. Qualitative data were analysed by means of open coding, categories, meaningful themes, as well as summarization of data. The results indicated that total quality management ideologies were very crucial in enhancing academics development in secondary schools. However, the study found that total quality management in public secondary schools in Manyoni is not implemented effectively. Therefore the government should ensure that all secondary schools are implementing TQM
Highlights
AND BACKGROUND TO THE STUDYThe primary stimulus of school development and academic success of the students is quality management
The findings demonstrated that effective communication in schools between principals and staff as well as school-based management has a significant relationship in total quality management
This subsection presents the findings of the study which are organized based on research objectives, such as: relationship between total quality management principles on students’ academic achievement, challenges encountered by school heads in enhancing total quality between Total quality management principles on students' academic achievement in Manyoni district help to promote communication in school, enhance commitment, reduce truancy and dropouts and encourage participation
Summary
The primary stimulus of school development and academic success of the students is quality management. Many leaders from different discipline have quite proven that https://theshillonga.com/index.php/jhed total quality management is crucial in academic success and in life itself. Professionals are unceasingly trying to find ways to improve quality managements for organizations development. Wan and Mehraji (2009) supports by defining TQM as a management philosophy that builds a customer-driven learning organization, dedicated to total customer satisfaction through continuous improvement in the effectiveness and efficiency of the school organization and its processes. There is difference in every definition from scholars on total quality management, the given definitions carry one meaning. One can say that TQM is the great principle that helps top management, teachers, students, and parents be involved in its implementation learning progress to gain the best students' academic achievement
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