Abstract
The research within this paper is motivated by the opinion that different organizational factors in primary education can have a stronger or weaker impact on the quality of the learning outcome. Organizational factors, criteria analyzed in this paper, are school management, school infrastructure, students’ foreknowledge, teacher competencies, curriculum content, student motivation, and the quality of the teaching process. Using SWARA (Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) method of multi-criteria decision-making, the answers of elementary school principals, members of the panel of experts, were processed. The calculation within this method was performed using fuzzy numbers to ensure the reliability of expert evaluations. The results of the applied method, in the form of weighting coefficients of the criteria, indicate that school management has an influence on the selection and building of teachers’ competencies while the given competence can indirectly affect the overall success of students through the establishment of an adequate school infrastructure, which affects the knowledge quality. Knowing the factor that has the highest impact enables principals to manage this factor and contribute to enhancing the knowledge quality. This research contributes to raising awareness of the importance of particular organizational factors in elementary education and the need to improve them.
Highlights
A school is a system consisting of a number of functionally connected elements that make up the subsystems of a given system
The results indicate the need to make special reference to this aspect, since it significantly deters the quality of learning outcomes and their performance (Yadegaridehkordi et al, 2019)
In order to evaluate the impact of organizational factors on the quality of learning outcomes in elementary education, and to learn about the possibilities of successfully managing these factors in order to achieve and maintain high quality of learning outcomes, which affects the image of the schools themselves, principals defined the ranking criteria
Summary
A school is a system consisting of a number of functionally connected elements that make up the subsystems of a given system. The important elements of the school as a system are. The basis for assessing the quality of an educational process is the educational outcome, which include the knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes of students acquired through formal education at both the elementary and secondary school levels (Fauth et al, 2014). Learning outcomes are the knowledge, skills and competences, in the narrow sense, that a person has acquired through learning and which are demonstrated after learning. The results of the learning process help students see the extent to which they have adopted the foreseen curricula that will enable them to enroll into the desired level of education
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