The Study of the Comparison of the Performance of State Training and Education Complexes with Separate Schools in Tehran Education and Training Organization

Abstract

Public educational complexes are one of the new designs to improve the country's educational system copied from the experience of establishing the cluster schools in some developing and developed countries in the world. According to this design, schools use each other resources so that the benefits obtained could be shared. The main aim of this study was to compare the performances of different urban public educational complexes with separate schools in education of Tehran City. To accomplish this goal, survey research method and questionnaires were used to collect information in which the questionnaire was obtained from Kiir and Henny Theory. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts in this field and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha Test. The statistical population of the study included all 3,000 managers, assistants, teachers and educational staff in education of Tehran City among whom 341 individuals were selected through Bula sample size and random cluster sampling method. The results indicated that the mean performance of separate schools was better than urban public educational complexes in education of Tehran City. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4S2p257