School Quality Research Articles

​​RESEARCH ON THE SATISFACTION OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE IN NORMAL COLLEGES A SURVEY OF STUDENT LEADER TEACHERS AND INTERNSHIP SCHOOLS​

Educational practice is an effective form of cooperation between universities and primary and secondary schools. Teaching practice can promote the improvement of teaching quality in primary and secondary schools, and also promote the integration of college students' theoretical knowledge and practical experience, and promote their professional development. From the perspective of practice leader teachers and practice schools rarely involved at present, this study analyzes and understands the satisfaction survey of practice leader teachers and practice schools on the subject of educational practice (students, teachers and schools) through questionnaire design and data collection. The survey results show that the satisfaction of the intern and the intern leader teachers is between very satisfied and satisfied. The student leader teachers' satisfaction with the school and students ranged between very satisfaction and satisfaction, and more tended to be satisfied. The satisfaction with the school (C school) Educational practice management was between very satisfaction and satisfaction, and some contents were between satisfaction and basic satisfaction. It shows that the practice leader teachers and practice schools are basically satisfied with the subject of Educational practice and Educational practice.

PERAN KEPALA SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN PRESTASI NON AKADEMIK SISWA DI SDIT NATUNA INSAN QUR’ANI BUNGURAN TIMUR

A school principal is a professional teacher who is given the task of leading a school where teaching and learning activities are held. As a good leader, he must be able to improve the academic and non-academic achievements of students. This is to develop the potential of students to improve the quality of schools. The aim of this research is to find out the role of the school principal in improving non-academic achievement at SDIT Natuna Insan Qur'ani. This research uses qualitative research methods with observation, interview and documentation data collection techniques. The research results show that there are three roles of the principal, namely the role of the principal as a manager, analyzing the background and potential of teachers to be appointed as supervisors of extracurricular activities. And the principal brings in external teachers, and always gives direction, supervising these extracurricular activities. The role that has been carried out is in the form of the role of the school principal as an educator, namely participating as an extracurricular coach. The role of the school principal is as a motivator, namely providing additional honorarium for coaches and motivating students who excel in the form of certificates and medals.

Strengthening Public School Culture: Integration of Local Wisdom, Religious Values, and Universal Values

This study focuses on integrating local wisdom, religious values, and universal values. This study aims at revealing various secondary school cultures in public schools. This study employed a qualitative method with a case study design at Junior High School SMPN 7 Muaro Jambi. Data was collected using observation, in-depth interviews, and document study techniques. The collected data were analyzed using an interactive model, including data condensation, presentation, and verification. Triangulation techniques, extended observations, and member checks are employed to increase the validity of the data. The study revealed that five school cultures still characterize school managerial life: Gotong Royong (cooperation), Musyawarah (deliberation), Islamic Ritual, Clean and Healthy, and Discipline. These five cultures are manifestations of adherence to local values (indigenousity), religious values, and universal values. Combining these three integrated sources of values is a distinctive pattern of school culture that becomes the foundation for developing school quality at public schools at SMPN 7 Muaro Jambi. This research implies that integrating local, religious, and universal values in school culture enriches learning and prepares students for a globally complex world.

Community Inequalities and Children’s Life Chances in the United States

This piece discusses the growing empirical evidence that the communities where American children spend their formative years—not just the households they are raised in but where those households are located—matter for their prospects of success in subsequent stages of their lives. The authors explore the various community characteristics—including social capital, family structure, school quality, and income—associated with educational attainment, health, teen pregnancy, social mobility, violence, crime victimization, and more.

MANAJEMEN MUTU PENDIDIKAN FATIH BILLINGUAL SCHOOL ACEH

Improving the quality of education is a must to meet the needs of the school and community. This study aims to determine the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs to improve education. The method used in this research is descriptive method with qualitative approach. Data collection techniques: observation, interviews and documentation study. Subjects were Principal, Vice Principal, committees and supervisors. The results of the study will describe how Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of education quality improvement programs are carried out by Fatih Billingual School in Aceh every year, but also conducted on a monthly and semester basis. includes internal evaluation and external evaluation as a reference for improving the quality of schools in Aceh.

Analysis of How Zoning Policies with A Focus on Achieving Equitable Access to Quality Education through New Student Enrollment Strategies

The issue of education equity has always been a problem of education in Indonesia. The government policy on the zoning system for new student admissions is one of the solutions offered to support the education equity program. The implementation of the zoning system policy has an impact on improving the quality of schools and students because the registration path for students by the provisions of the domicile zoning area determined by the local government. This study analysis raises the topic of improving the quality of schools and learners to encourage education equity through the implementation of the zoning system for new student admissions. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the implementation of school and learner quality management as a form of support for equal access to education, which is one of the objectives of the government's policy on the zoning system for new learners. A descriptive qualitative approach through a literature study traced in official documents, reference books, websites, government policies, and journals related to the research topic is used in this study. The results of the study on the above topic can be concluded that the new learner admission zoning system policy encourages the improvement of the quality of schools and learners through the quality of services, teacher competence, availability of facilities and infrastructure, and participation of education stakeholders including the government by adhering to the principles of quality assurance for equitable, objective, transparent, and fair education.

Quality School Management (Study of School Committees, Principal and School Achievement at Cirebon City Public High School)

Quality provides satisfaction to the user, relative quality provides an illustration of the use of a product that can be used based on satisfaction. Education as the development of quality human resources has the power that can be used for nation development. Reliable quality education contributes to a complete human being. The school committee carries out activities in order to maintain the quality of the school, the principal executes quality activities to make the school quality, the school's achievements cannot be separated from the strength of the committee's resources and the principal who has an active role in every school activity. This research uses a qualitative approach with data collection techniques of observation, document study and interviews. The results of this research really require synergy from all parties, commitment, communication and providing space for discussion and motivating internal school parties and supporting each other.

Klasterisasi Data Untuk Sistem Rekomendasi Pemilihan Sekolah Dasar Di Wilayah Surakarta Degan Metode Hierarchy Clustering

The role of parents is very important in determining the school for their children, especially at elementary school level. There are many factors that parents consider when choosing an elementary school, including school quality, distance to school, school fees, content of religious education, school performance and school facilities. The aim of this research is to develop a data clustering concept using Hierarchy Clustering method for an elementary school recommendation system in the city of Surakarta, so that it can help parents in determining the elementary school for their children. In this study, agglomerative clustering with Ward linkage was used, this is because among other linkage methods (Single linkage, ward linkage, flexible linkage and complete linkage), Ward linkage has the highest Silhouette index value, namely 0.666. Cluster optimization in this research was determined by looking at the Silhouette index graph by comparing the Silhouette cluster values 1 to 10 for each linkage method, and obtained the cluster optimization value was 4, so the number of groupings used was 4 clusters. The accuracy of the recommendation system is tested using the Mean Average Error (MAE) statistical calculation, with an MAE value of 0.2, which means the recommendation system is suitable for use.

EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES IN COGNITIVE DECLINE AND DEMENTIA IN LATER LIFE

Abstract According to the most recent (2020) Lancet commission report, one of the most important determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) is educational attainment. For those aged 80 and older, the risk for dementia is three times lower for those with a college degree compared to those without a high school degree, with even larger educational disparities by ethnicity. Despite these large and persistent gaps, there is much we do not understand about the relationship between education and dementia. Moreover, we have yet to develop effective clinical treatments that substantially slow or reverse the course of dementia. In this context, unpacking the education—ADRD relationship may be key to understanding how to delay ADRD onset. This panel explores how genetic risk, early life conditions, ranging from cognition and the quality of schooling to mid life factors, may mediate and moderate the relationship between education and cognitive decline and dementia in later life. The papers also pay close attention to variance by gender and ethnicity.

SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULAR RIGOR AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION AT AGE 81

Abstract A current goal is to identify how and for whom years of educational attainment translate into high cognitive function in later life. Recent work has found effects of school quality factors such as teacher experience and racial integration of schools. In this project, I examine secondary school curriculum. Not only is there variation in curriculum across school districts, but also adolescents within a single secondary school select different courses. Curricular opportunities and selections may change the developing brain in lasting ways, and/or may place the student on a path towards future academic and career opportunities that shape risk and resilience. I hypothesize that a rigorous secondary school curriculum positions students to attend college, which in turn promotes lifelong cognitive health. I tested this hypothesis by estimating multilevel structural equation models in data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), which follows a randomly-selected one-third of all students who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 (N = 10,317). I created a latent measure of curricular rigor out of participants’ highest secondary school math course and number of semesters of English, science, and foreign language. In 2020 (most participants were age 81), participants completed a phone-based cognitive screening (Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status-Modified; TICS-m). Net of school-level factors, parental socioeconomic status, and academic achievement, higher curricular rigor predicted higher cognitive function at age 81. Educational attainment significantly mediated this effect, and a significant direct effect also remained. Both educational attainment and curricular rigor are desirable targets for policy interventions.

PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM PAUD BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF P5 DI TK DIDAKTIKA USWATUN KHASANAH BEJI PURWOKERTO

This study aims to look at and analize the development of a local wisdom-based PAUD curriculum in the P5 perspective applied in the Kindergarten Didaktika Uswatun Khasanah Beji. Because not all educational institutions, especially Early Childhood Education, have been able to implement the PAUD Curriculum system based on local wisdom in accordance with the existing programs in P5. That way the author is very interested in being able to dig deeper into the application of the PAUD Curriculum that is implemented in the Kindergarten Didaktika Uswatun Khasanah Beji. The PAUD Curriculum that is implemented civers several aspects for the sake of improving the quality and quality of schools, especially the quality of child development. The results show that the implementation of the PAUD Curriculum based on local wisdom in the Kindergarten Didaktika Uswatun Khasanah Beji has many positive impacts for both school institutions, teachers and students, and the environment around the Kindergarten. Teachers or intructors become more professional in determining the concepts and structures of learning implemented in schools. In addition, students are also more skilled, independent, and synergized in instilling a social and religious spirit with noble character. The success of the quality and quality of schools can be seen from the developments that occur in children. The method in this study uses qualitative research methods. The type of research used is the phenomenological approach. Where the reseracher examines a phenomenon that is experienced in the real world, namely the application of P5 in the Didaktika Uswatun Khasanah Beji Purwokerto Kindergarten. Research is conducted to be understood and studied the truth. Submission of research into the discussion descriptively.

The effect of post-COVID-19 ventilation measures on indoor air quality in primary schools.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has made people acutely aware of the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and building ventilation systems, particularly in densely occupied places like offices and schools. As a result, governments and other public entities are increasingly investing in the installation, maintenance, and upgrades of ventilation systems in public buildings. However, little is known about the effect of building ventilation systems on actual IAQ and its impact on occupant behavior. This paper exploits exogenous closing and opening events of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with policy measures focusing on maximizing ventilation rates inside classrooms, to assess the effectiveness of building ventilation systems in primary schools. We use a unique sensor network implemented before the COVID-19 pandemic, consisting of measurement devices installed in 252 classrooms across 27 Dutch primary schools, continuously monitoring IAQ indicators such as CO2 levels and fine particle concentrations. Using high-frequency data from 2018 to 2022 school years, we compare the IAQ differences between natural and mechanical ventilation through a fixed-effect identification strategy. Our results show that mechanically ventilated classrooms perform better with respect to CO2 and fine particle levels. However, the post-COVID-19 ventilation measures implemented after school reopening had stronger effects on naturally ventilated (NV) classrooms, suggesting behavioral changes at the classroom level. We also investigate the longer term effects of these post-COVID-19 ventilation measures and show some evidence of decay in effectiveness, as well as a strong seasonal effect, particularly in NV classrooms, which seems the result of a trade-off between ventilation and thermal comfort.

Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Semen Quality in Healthy Young Men Living in a Contaminated Area.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors that have been implicated in potential damage to human semen. However, the studies conducted so far provide contrasting results. Our study aimed to investigate the associations between PCB serum and semen levels and semen quality in high school and university students living in a highly PCB-polluted area of Italy. Subjects with a normal body mass index who did not make daily use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, or medication were selected. All participants provided a fasting blood and a semen sample. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was used to determine the concentrations of 26 PCB congeners. The concentrations of PCB functional groups and total PCBs were also computed. A total of 143 subjects (median age 20, range 18-22 years) were enrolled. The median total PCB concentrations were 3.85 ng/mL (range 3.43-4.56 ng/mL) and 0.29 ng/mL (range 0.26-0.32 ng/mL) in serum and semen, respectively. The analysis of the associations between sperm PCB concentration and semen parameters showed (a) negative associations between some PCB congeners, functional groups and total PCBs and sperm total motility; (b) negative associations of total PCBs with sperm normal morphology; and (c) no association of PCBs with sperm concentration. Subjects at the highest quartile of semen total PCB concentration had 19% and 23% mean reductions in total motility and normal morphology, respectively, compared to those at the lowest quartile. The analysis of the associations of serum PCB levels with sperm parameters yielded null or mixed (some positive, other negative) results. In conclusion, the present study provides evidence of a negative effect of some PCB congeners and total PCBs in semen on sperm motility and normal morphology. However, the associations between the concentration of serum and semen PCB congeners and functional groups and sperm quality parameters were inconsistent.

Headmaster's Strategies to Improve the Quality of Education: A Case Study at Kindergarten ABA Warungboto

Improving the quality of schools is basically a strategy to improve the quality of education by giving authority and responsibility to school leaders to make decisions. The principal as the leader of an educational institution and of course being the key holder of the school's success needs to have various methods and efforts made to achieve the stated goals. desired. The aim of this research is to determine the school principal's efforts to improve the quality of education at the ABA Warungboto Kindergarten. The approach used in the research is a descriptive qualitative type approach. The subjects in this research were the principal and two homeroom teachers who were the main sources for obtaining research data. Three methods were used to collect research materials, namely interviews, observation and documentation. The data analysis techniques used in this research are data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. The results of the research show that there are various efforts made to improve the quality of education, including a) Division of tasks and responsibilities b) Improving the quality of teachers c) Increasing student achievement d) Improving infrastructure. Various efforts made by school principals can ensure quality that can help improve schools in the future.

Aktualisasi Manajemen Berbasis Sekolah (MBS) Berbasis Pendidikan Islam dalam Peningkatan Kualitas Mutu Sekolah

This research aims to describe the application of the concept of school-based manajement (SBM) as an effort to create superior schools. This is done to build the school's existence in terms of institutional competitiveness and to realize the competitiveness of superior graduates. This research was conducted using research with a qualitative descriptive approach. Data collection was carried out using observation, interviews and documentation methods. Data analysis used after the data is collected is through data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. Based on the results of research conducted, it is hoped that the implementation of SBM can strengthen the participation of all parties in education manajement and create an inclusive, transparent and accountable educational environment in collaboration with all stakeholders. This collaboration aims to improve the quality of education, involving all parties involved and achieving a common goal in creating an SBM concept that is oriented towards superior school quality so that it has an impact on the competitiveness of the graduates produced.

Principals’ Managerial Skills in the Elementary Schools of Southern Papua

This study aimed to describe teachers’ perceptions of principals’ managerial skills in the elementary schools of southern Papua, Indonesia. We used a survey research approach to explore the elementary school teachers' perceptions of school principals' managerial skills. To attain the objective, one survey questionnaire was distributed to 1277 respondents, conveniently picked from amongst the elementary school teachers in Southern Papua, Indonesia. All respondents were asked to give their perceptions on a four-point Likert scale by providing a checking mark (√) on each given item that they value to be the most appropriate to describe the situation. The descriptive statistical analysis technique was performed by generating frequency and mean scores to describe teachers’ perceptions of their school principals’ managerial skills. The descriptive statistical analysis revealed that the elementary school principals’ managerial skills were perceived as moderately low by the respondents as the general mean of the data is 2.6924E3 with a standard deviation of 174.34789 and a general mode of 2. Based on the result of descriptive statistical analysis, it is recommended that educational policymakers in Southern Papua to recruit school principal candidates based on the national standard required for a qualified school principal

Analisis Sistem Administrasi Pendidikan Dalam Meningkatkan Mutu Sekolah

This research aims to investigate the role of educational administration systems in enhancing school quality. Employing a qualitative approach, data were gathered through interviews with school administrators, teachers, and educational staff. The analysis revealed that the effective implementation of administrative systems has a positive impact on school performance. This article discusses these findings and provides suggestions for further improvements in educational management at the school level. These findings have significant implications for the development and enhancement of educational quality within the school environment.

Manajemen Pendidikan Berbasis Community Engangement dalam Peningkatan Mutu Sekolah

This research examines the role of community engagement-based education management in improving school quality. A qualitative approach with a case study was used in the research. The research location is MTs Nurul Jadid because it is easy to get data and is a superior institution within the pesantren environment. The research data consisted of primary and secondary data, each of which was obtained from research informants and scientific journals, both national and international. Data collection was carried out using three techniques, namely observation, interviews, and documentation. While data analysis was carried out in three stages, namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing,. Community engagement-based education management for improving school quality consists of community involvement in academics, financing, and education quality.

Pengembangan Strategi Bersaing untuk Meningkatkan Kualitas Sekolah Menengah Pertama

The background of this study is the decreasing number of students and classes in one junior high school. This study aims to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the school by developing suitable competitive strategies to improve the school quality and the number of students and classes. This research is qualitative research using the research and development (R & D) method with the Borg and Gall development model which is limited to the seventh step. The study was conducted in a junior high school. The subjects of the study were school principal, teachers, staff, and school observers. Data was collected by interview, documentation studies, questionnaires, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) techniques. Data was analyzed with a qualitative descriptive analysis using Miles and Huberman model. Activities in data analysis included data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The result of the study show that the school is in quadrant II which indicates that the condition of the school is quite stable, but it faces many obstacles, therefore it is necessary to carry out a diversification strategy. The proposed diversification strategy includes curriculum diversification and service expansion and continuous improvement efforts.

Analyzing the components of education quality in the Russian higher school

Subject. The article explores competition in the labor market, the problem of improving the level of professional training. Objectives. The purpose is to define areas for higher education development in Russia, taking into account the opinion of students about advantages and disadvantages of various forms of education. Methods. The study draws on methods of statistical and comparative analysis. Results. We systematized parameters that determine the quality of education. Most students support the use of blended learning in educational institutions, which involves a free schedule of attending classroom training, but at the same time, full-time education is more preferable compared to distance learning. Conclusions. The formation of the Russian model of higher education should not imply total rejection of principles of the Bologna Process (in particular, the rejection of bachelor's and master's degrees), which makes it possible to develop an interdisciplinary approach and change the "trajectory of learning".