Departments Of Educational Administration Research Articles

Students’ Councils Involvement in the Formulation of Rules and Regulations on Discipline in Secondary Schools Migori County, Kenya

Students’ councils leadership is a participatory form of governance, which exist worldwide and can improve discipline of learners. In Kenya, it was established in 2009 after the burning of caporal punishment, between the years 2015-2018, 21.2 % of secondary schools in Migori County went on strike, 11.7% in Homa Bay, 10.2 in Kisii and 5.7% in Narok despite government directive that these student councils to be involved in the management of schools among other policies to reduce the conflicts. This is therefore prompting a study in Migori County. The objective which guided the study was to analyze the influence of student councils’ involvement in the formulation of rules and regulations on discipline in secondary schools Migori County. The study used conceptual framework. The study used descriptive survey and ex-post facto research designs. Targeted population was 1140 respondents. Principals, Deputy Principals (DPs), heads of guidance and counseling (HGC) and Presidents of Student Councils (PSCs) and 8 Sub- County Education officers (SCDE). The researcher used purposive sampling to find 8 SCDEs and use 30 percent to get a sample of 85 Principals, DPs, HGC and PSCs from a population of 283 respectively. Data collection instruments will be questionnaires for principals, DPs and students. Interview schedules for HGC and SCDEs. Two experts from the department of Educational Administration at Maseno University will scrutinize the instruments to ensure their validity. Reliability of the instruments will be determined by employing Pearson’s product moment for the test-retest and reliability coefficient of 0.75 up to 0.99 was realized, hence the instruments were termed reliable. The study findings indicated that there was weak, positive correlation between the two variables [r =.428, n=63, p> 0.01], with high levels of Students’ councils formulation of rules and regulations connected with high levels of students discipline in secondary schools, and it was statistically significant as p-value (0.211) ˃ 0.01 level (2 tailed). The study concluded that students’ council should be more involved in the formulation of rules and regulations on their’ discipline. It was recommended that students’ councils should be sufficiently prepared in their involvement in formulation of school rules to enhance discipline. The data was analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study was significant to students; principals and education stakeholders. The researcher adhered to research ethical considerations.

Involvement of Student Councils in the Supervision of their Welfare on Discipline in Secondary Schools in Migori County, Kenya

Students’ councils leadership is a participatory form of governance, which exist worldwide and can improve discipline of learners. In Kenya, it was established in 2009 after the burning of caporal punishment, between the years 2015-2018, 31.2 % of secondary schools in Migori County went on strike, 11.7% in Homa Bay, 10.2 in Kisii and 5.7% in Narok despite government directive that these student councils to be involved in the management of schools among other policies to reduce the conflicts. This is therefore prompting a study in Migori County. The objective which guided the study was to establish the influence of involvement of student councils in the supervision of their welfare activities on discipline; The study used conceptual framework. The study used descriptive survey and ex-post facto research designs. Targeted population was 1140 respondents. Principals, Deputy Principals (DPs), heads of guidance and counseling (HGC) and Presidents of Student Councils (PSCs) and 8 Sub-county Education officers (SCDE). The researcher used purposive sampling to find 8 SCDEs and use 30 percent to get a sample of 85 Principals, DPs, HGC and PSCs from a population of 283 respectively. Data collection instruments will be questionnaires for principals, DPs and students. Interview schedules for HGC and SCDEs. Two experts from the department of Educational Administration at Maseno University will scrutinize the instruments to ensure their validity. Reliability of the instruments will be determined by employing Pearson’s product moment for the test-retest and reliability coefficient of 0.75 up to 0.99 was realized, hence the instruments were termed reliable. The findings revealed that involvement in supervision of students’ welfare on students discipline had weak positive correlation (0.071) and it was statistically significant as p-value (0.211) ˃ 0.01 level (2 tailed). The study concluded that students should be more involved in the supervision of their welfare on students’ discipline. It was recommended that students’ councils should be sufficiently prepared in their supervisory roles in school management to enhance discipline. The data was analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study was significant to students; principals and education stakeholders. The researcher adhered to research ethical considerations.

Roles of Procurement Committees in Promoting Construction of Quality Infrastructure in Public Primary Schools in Moshi Municipal Council, Tanzania

The study investigated the Roles of Procurement Committees in Promoting Construction of Quality Infrastructure in Public Primary Schools in Moshi Municipal Council, Tanzania. The study anchored on Resource Dependence Theory, whereas convergent design under a mixed methods research approach was employed. Probability and non-probability sampling techniques (simple random, stratified random and purposive sampling) were used to sample 113 participants from 6 public primary schools and Municipal heads of departments. Questionnaires and interview guides were used to collect data. Validity of the instruments was established through three experts from the Department of educational planning and Administration at Mwenge Catholic University, whereas reliability of the instruments was established through the Cronbach's Alpha technique (reliability coefficient = 0.8). Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Hypothesis was tested at a significant level of 0.05. Qualitative data from the interview guides were analysed thematically by transcribing the information, coding and generating themes according to the research questions that were presented in verbatim quotations. The study revealed that public primary schools' procurement committee members and experts worked hard to ensure construction and renovation materials and services were acquired in accordance with Force Account Method and Public Procurement Regulatory Authority regulations. The study also found out that primary schools' committee members were not certain about their procurement roles in planning and purchasing because they were not involved by the head teachers in the procurement process. This tendency compromised the quality of infrastructure being constructed and renovated in public primary schools in Moshi Municipality. The study concluded that the procurement committee had a significant role in constructing public primary school buildings in Moshi Municipality. The study recommended that the Ministry of PO RALG should create awareness among head teachers on the roles of procurement committee members and experts.

Data Mining Technology in Teaching Evaluation of Colleges and Universities

Data Mining refers to the large amount of data from the database through algorithmic search reveals implicit, previously unknown and potentially valuable process information[1]. Currently, many areas during the application of data mining. Data mining association rules is one of the most important and most mature technology research methods, association rule mining can find the hidden link between the transaction and meaningful rules. The purpose of this study is to evaluate data mining techniques combined with teaching, to extract useful information from a large number of evaluation data hiding, thereby providing a basis for decision support educational administration department, improve teaching quality.

Study on the influence of social support on the effect of science education in rural primary schools

This paper analyses the influence of different social support on the effect of science education in rural primary schools, based on the data of rural primary school teachers in 5 re¬gions of Heilongjiang Province in China. The study found that the independent effects of the five social supports such as economic support, the support of science education venues, the guidance of science education and teaching on-site, improvement training of science teacher quality, serve as a science education counsellor on the effect of science education in rural primary schools were significant. The improvement training of science teacher quality and the guidance of science education and teaching on-site still has a great influence on the effect of science education in rural primary schools under the background of different school characteristics, and under sufficient and insufficient capital of science teaching. However, the impact of economic support, the support of science education venues, serving as a science education counsellor is not significant. Therefore, in order to better provide high-quality social support for science education in rural primary schools, a multi-subject science education alliance, led by the county educational administrative departments, should be established to improve coordination and matching degree of social support resource. A science education demand evaluation system, should be established in rural primary schools, to enhance the accuracy of social support services. The quality improvement of science teachers should be taken as the core of social support to clarify the direction of social support.

Analysis of the Mission Statements of Educational Administration Departments in Terms of Identity

The aim of this study is to examine the mission statements of the Departments of Educational Administration within educational sciences at Turkish universities in terms of identity. The study, which adopts a qualitative approach, was designed as a case study, and the document analysis technique was used for the data collection. In line with the purpose of the study, the web pages of the Departments of Educational Administration in 78 Turkish universities were examined and the mission statements of 48 departments were obtained. These mission statements were then analyzed descriptively. The mission statements were classified under three main themes: education-training, scientific research, and community service. The mission that is emphasized the strongest in by the Educational Administration Departments was “improving the professional development of educators” under the education-training theme. While the most frequently repeated mission under the scientific research theme is “knowledge generation and dissemination in the field”, “producing knowledge for the educational needs of the society” is observed as the primary mission under the theme of serving the society. The Department of Educational Administration missions were discussed in terms of how they reflect the identity of the field, how up-to-date and applicable they are, and to what extent they are suitable for higher education purposes. Based on the findings of the study, administrators and lecturers in Educational Administration Departments are suggested to adopt the due care and meticulousness in the preparation of their departmental missions.

Organizational Justice and Teachers’ Turnover Intention in Primary and Secondary Schools: The Importance of Sustainable Salary Management

Primary and middle school teachers are a critical part of China’s foundational education; teacher turnover heavily affects the stable development of foundational education. Aiming at the phenomenon of teacher turnover intention in primary and secondary schools, interviews and questionnaires were used to explore the relationship between teachers’ organizational justice, salary satisfaction, and turnover intention in the management of primary and secondary schools. The research subjects were more than 500 primary and secondary school teachers from Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. The data analysis results show that the sense of interactive fairness is the highest, followed by procedural fairness and the lowest sense of distributional fairness, with a certain sense of unfairness among the three dimensions of organizational fairness among primary and secondary school teachers. The average salary satisfaction score is 2.64, which is lower than the midpoint of 3, and there is a certain degree of dissatisfaction. The results of the correlation analysis showed that the pairwise correlations between the variables reached a very significant level. The results of regression analysis showed that organizational justice had the greatest impact on turnover intention, accounting for 20% of the variance. Salary satisfaction plays a partial mediating role between various dimensions of organizational justice and turnover intention, indicating that procedural fairness, interaction fairness, and distributional justice not only have a direct impact on turnover intention, but also indirectly affect turnover intention by affecting salary satisfaction. The results of this study can provide empirical data support for educational administrative departments and school managers in economically developed regions to improve their compensation management level and implement effective and sustainable compensation management policies and programs, as well as provide first-hand information for cross-country comparative studies of teacher compensation management in the field of education administration.

Optimization of College Students’ Employment Prosperity Index System Based on Multiple Logit Models

The employment of university graduates has always been a matter of great concern to educational administrative departments and governments at all levels. EPI (employment prosperity index) is a weather vane that reflects the situation of the labor market, and it is also an important reference for the national economic situation. This paper constructs college students’ EPI from different aspects, such as employment environment, employability, employment status, and public service, focuses on the calculation method of college students’ EPI, and obtains the general formula for calculating college students’ EPI. Based on the data obtained from a university, the EPI system is optimized by using MLM (multinomial logit model). Through empirical research, it is found that EPI, which is optimized by the system, has the function of evaluating the employment environment of college students, which not only provides macroemployment policies for the government but also provides scientific and effective employment service policies for universities.

INVESTIGATION ON MEDICAL STUDENTS’ SENSE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR CHANGES -- A CASE STUDY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN HEFEI

INVESTIGATION ON MEDICAL STUDENTS’ SENSE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR CHANGES -- A CASE STUDY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN HEFEI

Involvement of Government and Non-Governmental Organisations’ Teamwork in the Advancement of Quality Education in Kisumu West Sub County, Kenya

The study aimed at establishing the Involvement of government and non-governmental organisations’ (NGOs) Teamwork in the Advancement of quality education in Kisumu West Sub County, Kenya. Despite the efforts put by non-governmental organizations in promoting quality education in the country, there are several challenges that are encountered by NGOs which hinder their support in promoting quality education. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The target population was 19 NGO Leaders, 111 Head Teachers, the SCEO, 111 Community Leaders and SCQAO, totaling to 243. The NGO officials, SCEO, SCQAO, and were purposively selected because they were few. A 30 percent simple random sample was used to get33 Head Teachers and 33 Community Leaders. Data was collected through questionnaires and interview schedules. To ensure face and content validity of the research instruments, 2 experts in the department of Educational Administration Planning and Economics of Kisii University were requested to scrutinize the research instruments so as to validate them. Reliability of the instruments was addressed through piloting in 5 schools and reliability coefficients were obtained by subjecting the instruments to a Split-half Technique and Spearman ―Brown Prophesy formula‖. The co-efficient of reliability obtained was 0.721 which indicated that the instruments were reliable. Data was analyzed qualitatively and SPSS programme was used. The findings of the study reveal that the majority (87) 88.6 percent of all respondents said that training on financial matters in the schools was done quarterly. It was recommended that the government to work closely with NGOs to provide quality education. Informed consent of the respondents were ensured and confidentiality adhered to.

The research status and development trend of children health education

In pediatric clinical practice, it is found that common and frequently-occurring diseases in children have the characteristics of acute onset, rapid change, aggregation and being preventable and controllable. School health education is particularly important for the prevention and control of common and frequently-occurring diseases in preschool and school-age children. School health education refers to the combination of kindergarten, school and other places of staff advocated by the various learning experience, the development of students from now on to learn to deal with various expected health challenges with necessary cognitive skills and behavioral skills. The former State Education Commission and the Ministry of Health jointly promulgated the "Regulations on School Health Work" in 1980, making our country's school health work followed by regulations. In 1992, the "Basic Requirements for Health Education for Primary and Secondary School Students" was jointly promulgated, which clearly stipulated the objectives and basic contents of health education in primary and secondary schools in China. In 2007, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council in the `Opinions on Strengthening Youth Sports to Enhance the Physical Fitness of Adolescents (Central Document No.7)' required that 'local education administrative departments should include the implementation of health education in schools as one of the important indicators of school supervision and assessment', and 'schools at all levels should actively carry out adolescent health education activities such as disease prevention, scientific nutrition, health and safety, drug control and tobacco control, and ensure the necessary health education time'. Although the health problems of primary and middle school students have received continuous attention and investment from the state and society, the health literacy of primary and middle school students in China has not been significantly improved in recent years, and the overall downward trend of students' health level has not been fundamentally curbed, partly due to China's lagging school health education system. Through literature mining, this paper refines the research focus of foreign health education and the challenges faced by foreign health education. By combing the research progress of health behavior and academic performance, adolescent media cognitive ability and health education workers' health cognitive ability, it reflects the future research direction of health education in China.

Application of Educational Decision based on Artificial Intelligence in Subject Construction

Artificial intelligence decision is the most commonly used method to deal with AI conflict. The advantages brought by AI are efficiency, accuracy, science and coordination. Educational decision is the process of behavior design and decision carried out by educational administrative departments, institutions or individuals in order to achieve specific educational goals. Taking computer science as an example, this paper gives the application of artificial intelligence decision making in the field of education, and summarizes the ideas of educational decision making based on specific courses and the actual construction process and conclusions.

University Employment Quality Evaluation System Based on Multicriteria Decision and Data Analysis

In the educational sector, an evaluation index is required to draw up planning. The establishment of an evaluation index is useful to properly predict the employment quality of graduates. Such valuable indices help educational administrative departments to formulate talent training standards. Multicriteria decision making is a decision-making tool that can be used in the formulation of the evaluation index. This research work proposes an effective evaluation model to assess the employment quality of graduate students. The model uses 10 evaluation indicators which are considered to be the standard employment quality. The proposed evaluation method utilizes the entropy method and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. Correlation between the employment quality evaluation index and employment quality is computed. The analytic hierarchy model is used to solve the weight of each employment quality evaluation index to the employment quality evaluation coefficient. According to the value characteristics of the 14 employment indicators, the expert method is used to assign scores to the sample data on each indicator. Thus, the indicator scores of the sample corresponding to the item are obtained. Through the evaluation of the employment quality of a certain university, the evaluation results are consistent with the actual employment quality of graduates. The employment quality evaluation model of college graduates established in this paper provides effective means and applications.

Tracer Study of Graduates in Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Planning and Management: Department of Educational Planning and Administration of the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP)

This study was conducted to find out the how the PhD graduates in Educational Planning and Administration have been doing in their professional life after they have completed their doctoral studies. Specifically, this study aimed to obtain graduates’ assessment of the graduate school program and the effect of obtaining the degree in their profession life. The research utilized the descriptive survey method, with a sample size of 42 PhD-Educational Planning and Management graduates from the school year 2011-2020. The findings have shown that that majority of the participants are female, working in the public school and teaching in the basic education level. On the other hand, majority are promoted after 1 to 2 years of obtaining the degree and most are promoted from a teacher rank to administrative position, which resulted in a higher salary grade. In addition, there was a ‘very great extent’ of attainment in the PhD-Educational Planning and Management Programs Educational Outcome, and Program Objectives. Moreover, the personal gains derived from pursuing the degree were as follows: strong community engagement, promotion, self- confidence, higher self-esteem, and confidence in dealing with personal problems. Further, the degree had enhanced the participants' knowledge and skills in their teaching and managerial functions.

The extent to which educational administration departments in Jordanian public and private universities are committed to performing their social responsibility from the point of view of some faculty members: مدى التزام أقسام الإدارة التربوية في الجامعات الأردنية الحكومية والخاصة بأداء مسؤوليتها الاجتماعية من وجهة نظر بعض أعضاء هيئة التدريس فيها

The study aimed to find out the extent to which the educational administration departments in the Jordanian public and private universities are committed to performing their social responsibility from the point of view of the faculty members in them. The descriptive analytical method was used. In order to answer the questions of the study, the arithmetic averages, standard deviations, and rank were extracted to the degree of commitment of the educational administration departments in the Jordanian public and private universities to perform their social responsibility, and the triple analysis of variance was used to test the significance of the differences between the variables, in light of the responses of the faculty members to the fields of study, after classifying them within the following levels Gender (male, female), experience (less than 10 years, 10 years or more) and university qualifications (public and private). A tool was developed, consisting of (21) paragraphs, and distributed to the study sample members of the 66), a faculty member in the educational administration departments in Jordanian and private universities for the academic year 2020/2021, and it included three areas: academic programs, scientific research, and activities and events. The study concluded that the commitment of the educational administration departments in the public and private Jordanian universities to perform their social responsibility obtained an overall average (77¸1 out of 3), i.e. a degree of commitment (medium), and at the level of the three domains; The field of academic programs got the highest average (4.¸2), then the field of scientific research with an average (71,1), both with a degree of commitment (medium), and finally activities and events with an average of (58.1) and a degree of commitment (low). The results also showed that there were no differences Statistically significant at the significance level (α = 0.05) between the arithmetic averages of the responses of the study sample members to the tool domains as a whole, and to the variables of gender, experience, and university status. Based on the results, the study may recommend conducting a study on the possibility of integrating social responsibility within the academic accreditation standards.

ADOLESCENTS’ HEALTHY SPORTS BEHAVIOR MODEL BASED ON THE THEORY OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT Introduction: Education administrative departments and schools should regard sports as an integral part of school education and allow students to use sports every day. Guarantee the time for sports activities; schools should organize various forms of extracurricular sports activities”. Objective: Based on the ecological system theory, the paper constructs a three-factor structural model that restricts youth sports participation and compiles a scale of factors restricting youth sports participation. Methods: The thesis selected 1,800 primary and secondary school students as the research object and used exploratory factor analysis to explore the questionnaire structure on the obstacles to sports participation. Results: 1) Exploratory factor analysis, the cumulative contribution rate of the first three factors extracted was 58.90%, and the load of each factor was more significant than 0.4. The three factors were school factors, family factors, and personal factors in order; 2) Reselected subjects, Exploring the three-factor structural model of obstacles to sports participation were verified. The final modified model RMSEA was 0.071, CFI was 0.98, and χ2/df was 8.55. The three factors were school factors, family factors, and personal factors. Conclusions: The fit of the three-factor structural indicators restricting youth sports participation is ideal, and the model is relatively stable. The “Questionnaire on Restricting Factors of Youth Sports Participation” can be used as a measurement tool to evaluate and understand youth sports participation constraints. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment results.

Challenges Facing the Planning of Higher Education in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria

Planning of Higher institutions in Nigeria and in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria has always been confronted with many challenges. This purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges facing planning of higher institutions in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. A descriptive research method was adopted for the study. The total numbers of hundred (100) respondents were selected from various agencies and ministry of education using stratified and systematic sampling technique with the use questionnaires to collect information from respondents who participated in the study. The data collected were carefully analyzed using percentages supported by chi-square to represent the raw data in a meaningful manner. The questionnaire was validated by two lecturers from University of Abuja department of educational administration. Two research questions and one hypothesis were developed for the study. Test-retest reliability was employed for the study. Result collected and analyzed revealed that there is significant relationship between planning of higher institutions and challenges. This result also showed that political influence, political instability, inadequate data, inadequate fund to plan, pressure group, inadequate planning and poor capacity of planner are the challenges facing the planning of higher institutions. The paper recommends that the government should increase the budgetary allocation for educational planning in the country.

Formal Knowledge Acquisition and Socialization to Educational Leadership by Program Graduates: The Intersection of Social Justice and the Role of Program Faculty

Through the use of Twale et al.’s model of socialization of graduate students, this study sought to better understand the experiences of graduates from an educational leadership and administration program and the influence faculty have on the knowledge acquisition needed to create socially just educational communities. Graduate programs must be critical of the responsibility faculty have in preparing graduates capable of creating socially just educational communities, in particular as they enter educational settings that are the most diverse in U.S. history. Through the use of phenomenological inquiry, interviews with 10 participants revealed three themes: (a) Faculty Connection and Department Culture, (b) Social Justice Curriculum; and (c) Social Justice Pedagogy and Instruction. Implications for research and practice are discussed and center on graduate students, faculty, and departments of educational leadership and administration.

STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION MAKASSAR STATE UNIVERSITY

This study aimed to determine whether there was a correlation between the level of students’ understanding of SBM (School Based Management) and students’ attitudes towards SBM in the Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, Makassar State University. This research was a correlational research. The total population was 180 students and 42 of them were selected as samples taken through purposive random sampling technique. The research data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between students' understanding and their attitudes towards SBM. It can be concluded that the higher the level of students’ understanding of School Based Management, the more positive their attitude towards School Based Management.

Challenges facing the planning of higher education in federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria

Planning of Higher institutions in Nigeria and in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria has always been confronted with many challenges. This purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges facing planning of higher institutions in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. A descriptive research method was adopted for the study. The total numbers of hundred (100) respondents were selected from various agencies and ministry of education using stratified and systematic sampling technique with the use questionnaires to collect information from respondents who participated in the study. The data collected were carefully analyzed using percentages supported by chi-square to represent the raw data in a meaningful manner. The questionnaire was validated by two lecturers from University of Abuja department of educational administration. Two research questions and one hypothesis were developed for the study. Test-retest reliability was employed for the study. Result collected and analyzed revealed that there is significant relationship between planning of higher institutions and challenges. This result also showed that political influence, political instability, inadequate data, inadequate fund to plan, pressure group, inadequate planning and poor capacity of planner are the challenges facing the planning of higher institutions. The paper recommends that the government should increase the budgetary allocation for educational planning in the country.