Regional Education Office Research Articles

Evaluasi Pendidikan Inklusi di Sekolah Dasar Negeri

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of inclusion education program in Gerantung State Elementary School, Central Lombok. The approach used in the research is descriptive qualitative CIPP model (Context, Input, Process, Product). Data collection in this study using interview, observation, and documentation techniques with research subjects are principals and teachers. The results of the research, in the context evaluation showed that the school officially implemented inclusion education because it had obtained permission and guidance to implement inclusion programs from the regional education office. The results of the input evaluation showed that there are three types of children with special needs (ABK) in the school, namely slow learning, learning difficulties, and hyperactivity. ABK gets learning using a curriculum that has been modified by the general teacher because it does not have a special tutor. In addition, the results of input evaluation showed that the school already has supporting facilities and infrastructure for ABK but not used properly. The results of the evaluation process show that teachers make learning planning and mentoring to students outside of lesson hours. Product evaluation results show that the academic achievement of students with special needs is left with normal students while non-academic achievement students with special needs can compete with normal students. In conclusion, the implementation of inclusion education program at SD Negeri Gerantung has been running officially, there are already facilities and infrastructure supporting ABK although it has not been optimally utilized, teachers have made a learning plan. 
 Keywords: Children with Special Needs, Program Evaluation, CIPP Model, Inclusion Education

Guidance and Counselling for Pupils with Special Educational Needs in Accra, Ghana: Implications for Inclusive Education

Pupils with special educational needs require guidance and counselling services to overcome their social and psychological challenges. The study explored available guidance and counselling services in three special schools in Ghana. The concurrent triangulation mixed- method design was used. The samples of pupils (88) and staff (3), comprising administrators and guidance and counselling coordinators were purposively selected for the study. Data were collected with a questionnaire and an interview guide. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics, specifically, frequencies and percentages while in the qualitative analysis, the thematic approach was used. The importance of guidance services was prevalent. The facility enabled discussions regarding pupils’ educational goal construction, career plan development and solving relationship problems among pupils, their staff and parents. Regional Education officers were subsequently recommended to liaise with their counterparts at the Guidance and Counselling and Special Education Regional offices to monitor special schools, which will enable them to ensure widened service access and effective implementation.

Dampak Lingkungan Kerja dan Etos Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai

This study aims to determine the effect of work environment and work ethic on employee performance in the Regional Education and Culture Office of Sangihe Islands Regency. This study used a survey research method, where the research instrument was a tested questionnaire and met the validity and reliability test requirements. Data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The population in this study were all employees at the Education and Culture Office of the Sangihe Islands Regency totaling 70 people, while the number of samples was 60 people. The results show that there is an influence of the work environment on the performance of employees at the Regional Education and Culture Office of the Sangihe Islands Regency, there is an influence of work ethic on the performance of employees at the Regional Education and Culture Office of the Sangihe Islands Regency, and there is a joint influence on the work environment and work ethic on the performance of employees at the Regional Education and Culture Office of Sangihe Islands Regency.

Teachers’ Instructional Components of Warm-up Rehearsal in Elementary School Chorus in South Korea

The preliminary purpose of the study is to find out the instructional components of choral warm-up rehearsal for teachers in Korean elementary school. For the study, Focused Group Interview Method was used, and the participants were eleven Korean primary school teachers who have had school chorus conducting or instructing. This survey shows that the teachers in primary schools who have experienced instructing a school chorus do not feel satisfied with warm-up techniques in their rehearsal. The reason why the teachers are not happy or confident about warm-up routine was various, but mostly they are supposed to teach all subjects, including school chorus. They have not enough time to prepare or practice for warm-up contents. They feel something to be equipped with proper skills of the warm-up in the rehearsal to help their students sing in more enjoyable ways in school chorus. Through the study, it suggests that the regional education office must provide a proper and practical training course to the teachers who are scheduled to lead a school chorus. Besides, it suggests that several elements to consider for establishing a warm-up model and its necessary skills, which can be applied and improve musical aptitude for students who participate in the school chorus. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.4.5

Improving School Work in Challenging Context: Practitioners’ Views following a Participatory Action Research Project from Eritrea

This article is based on 18-month participatory action research (PAR) project conducted with teachers and school leadership personnel with strong backing of the regional education office in one of the remote and most culturally diverse regions in Eritrea. It argues for a comprehensive understanding of managing a learning process in challenging circumstances of schooling. Qualitative analysis was used to interpret 14 semi-structured interview transcripts of project participants from two study schools. A framework for understanding teaching as the intersection of knowledge of learners, processes of teaching and learning and subject matter is used. The analysis based on the interview data, longer term engagements with participants and review of relevant documents enabled authors to synthesize views of participants into five main professional perspectives: need to overcome transitory nature of teachers, knowledge of learners, proactive guidance, professional commitment, collaborative practices. Those issues arguably constitute quality education in the study schools and beyond.

Gender as a Factor in Predicting Academic Performance in Agriculture in Primary School Leaving Examination in Gaborone, Botswana

The study looked at gender as it relates to academic performance of students in Agriculture Primary School Leaving Examination in Gaborone schools. The research was quantitative ex-post facto type design. The sample composed of 3781 (1751 males and 2030 females) students who wrote PSLE in 2012. The sample was taken from 43 primary schools in Gaborone area which included private and government schools. The results which included students’ scores were obtained from Botswana Examinations Council academic records and were not manipulated in any way. The results were then subjected to testing using Statistical Package for Social Sciences at significance level of 0.05. An independent t-test was conducted to determine significance difference and value of -5.964 which is statistically significance (P = 0.00) obtained and therefore the null hypothesis that states that there is no significant difference between males and females was rejected. The analysis revealed that girls performed better than boys and moreover there is a significant difference between males and females’ academic performance. It was therefore, recommended that the Gaborone Regional Education office intensify research to establish how other variables such as location, parental support and economic status of parents contribute to poor Primary School leaving Examinations.

EFFICACY OF FIRE DISASTER MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN MANAGING FIRE OUTBREAKS IN TANZANIA’S SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Despite the issuance of policy directives, fire disaster events have continued recurring in Tanzania’s secondary schools unabated over the years. This paper, therefore, is based on a study that was conducted to answer the research question: Why do fire disasters continue to occur in Tanzania’s secondary schools despite the existence of policy directives issued by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) for mitigating the problem? The study was guided by the critical policy analysis theory to investigate the efficiency of policy directives to manage fire outbreaks in secondary schools in three regions of Tanzania namely, Iringa, Mbeya and Kilimanjaro, as well as the MoEST Headquarters. The researcher adopted purposive sampling techniques to draw a sample of 116 participants from Zonal School Quality Assurers (ZSQAs), Regional Education Officers (REOs), District Secondary Education Officers (DSEOs), School Board Members (SBMs), Heads of Schools (HoSs), teachers and students, and the Commissioner of Education (CoE). The information from the participants was gathered using face-to-face interviews and Focused Group Discussions (FGDs). The study found that hardly had the policies issued by MoEST managed to mitigate the occurrence of fire outbreaks in the country’s secondary schools. The recurrence of the problem was aggravated by little initiatives on the part of the ministry to ensure that the policies issued are clearly understood by the implementers (Heads of School, teachers and students) at the secondary school level. Moreover, the system in place largely fails to solve on time inhibiting factors such as lack of accountability, making close follow-up and creating an enabling environment on the part of school authorities to facilitate the smooth implementation of policy directives. Thus, the study calls for a coherent formulation and implementation of policies coupled with capacity-building among key implementers at the secondary school level to curb regular occurrences of fire disaster events. Article visualizations:

Efficiency and governance: The case of South Korea

School education in Korea has prioritized excellence and efficiency above all else since the founding of the Republic of Korea in the 1940s. Excellence and efficiency were pursued through standardization and competition. Some examples are the national curriculum, national guidelines for assessment and records of students’ grades, and the CSAT (College Scholastic Ability Test). Under the circumstances, regional and local education offices and schools were primarily interested in excellence and efficiency. However, due to the adverse effects of the powerful central government and its national standardization and efficiency policy in the past, the pendulum has swung to equality and the wellbeing of students. Nowadays, the central and regional governments push for a policy to convert autonomous high schools to standardized general high schools. The change has triggered severe ideological and political conflicts between the camps throughout Korean society, with one emphasizing standardization and efficiency, and the other stressing equality and the wellbeing of students. Is there truly no way to resolve the conflicts between excellence/efficiency and equality/wellbeing in education? This is one of the most important and fundamental problems at the root of Korean education policies today.

Analysis of Contents and Utilization of Textbook for Social Economy Education

본 연구의 목적은 사회적경제교육 교재의 내용구성과 활용실태를 분석하여 사회적경제교육을 개선하기 위한 시사점을 도출하는 데 있다. 최근 ‘사회적경제(Social Economy)’가 주목을 받으면서 서울시를 비롯한 다양한 지방자치단체와 지역교육청에서 관련 교재 개발 및 교육사업 등을 추진하고 있다. 사회적경제교육 교재의 내용구성은 서울시와 서울시교육청에서 공동으로 개발한 초등학생용 교재를 분석 대상으로 하였으며, 지식, 기능, 가치·태도의 3개 요소로 나누어 분석준거를 설정하였다. 교재의 활용실태 분석은 온라인 설문과 초점면접의 두 가지 방법을 병행하였으며, 각각 2017년 서울시 방과후학교 협동조합 시범학교 4개교에 근무하는 초등 교사와 해당 교재의 집필진 2인을 대상으로 하였다. 연구 결과, 교재는 공감과 나눔, 협동, 호혜 등의 사회적경제 관련 가치·태도를 강조하고, 학생들이 협동조합과 같은 사회적경제 조직에 참여하도록 하며, 물질만능주의적 가치관에서 벗어나 지속가능한 사회로의 발전을 추구하도록 하고 있었다. 교재의 활용실태는 사회적경제교육 교재의 인지도 및 활용도가 저조한 수준이고, 그 원인이 교과 진도와 평가, 학교 행사 등으로 인하여 교사가 느끼는 심리적 부담감, 원활하지 못한 교재의 배부, 교사 연수 등의 제도 부족에 있었다. 시사점으로는 사회적경제교육이 필요하다는 공감대가 형성되어야 하며, 교사 개인이나 학교 단위를 넘어서는 제도적인 차원의 체계적인 지원이 뒷받침 되어야 한다는 점이다.The purpose of this study is to analyze the contents and utilization of textbook for social economy education and to suggest implications for improvement of social economy education. In recent years, ‘Social Economy’ has been attracting attention and various local governments and regional education offices are developing textbooks and educational projects. The contents of the social economy education textbook were analyzed by elementary school students textbook developed jointly by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and the analysis criteria were divided into three components: knowledge, function, and value and attitude. The analysis of the use of textbook was conducted by two methods of online questionnaire and focus interview. The subjects were elementary school teachers working in four post - school cooperative schools in Seoul in 2017 and two textbook writers. As a result of the study, the textbook emphasizes values and attitudes related to social economy such as empathy and sharing, cooperation, and reciprocity considering students level of cognitive development, allowing students to participate in social economic organizations like cooperatives, And that it is composed of the workbook format of the participatory class, which is the center of the student. Through the analysis of the utilization of the textbook, it is found that the recognition and utilization of the textbook of social economy education is low, and the psychological burden of the teachers to be further instructed besides the textbook, the distribution of the textbook.

IPTEKS PENERAPAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KINERJA PEGAWAI PADA DINAS PENDIDIKAN DAERAH PROVINSI SULAWESI UTARA

The Regional Education Office of North Sulawesi Province is a department engaged in education that carries out services in the field of education from the center to the regions. The way to work in this company is not monotonous. All employees and leaders establish good relationships with each other without reducing respect for their superiors or leaders. This happens because leaders who want to share and socialize with employees. The leaders in the North Sulawesi Provincial Education Office also often provide motivation on various occasions to provide more work enthusiasm for their employees. A good relationship is also proven by the way the opinions are conveyed by employees who are directly discussed by the office leaders. A well-structured organizational system also has an impact on monitoring employee performance because each has responsibilities so that they provide mutual input and encouragement on various occasions. The employees also continue to be provided with training that maximizes each other's performance. A comfortable and safe working atmosphere also makes workers able to work according to their responsibilities. The Regional Education Office of North Sulawesi Province has a mission to serve the community in the field of education so that the employees who are able to provide excellent service also greatly influence the progress of the departmentKeyword: human Resources, performance, employee performance factors

Practicing the National Curriculum Standards: From standard to actual classroom practice

The purpose of this study is to propose an effective measure to apply the standards of national curriculum into the actual classroom practice. In order to achieve this purpose, this study examines the current status and problems both in the theoretical and in the practical aspects, and suggests the practical measures of applying the national curriculum standards. The current national curriculum standards should be structured to have a more vertical and horizontal consistency in each grade and subject, and should be supported so that reconstruction should not be difficult in the actual classroom practice. Therefore, this study proposes top-down curriculum design first. In the subject level, it is also necessary to state standards more clearly and accurately to enable more meaningful identification. And it is also suggested that the applicable standards could be set in the Standards Guidelines or any booklet for supervision developed by each regional education office. It can serve as a guide when developing the school(teacher) curriculum standards by presenting specific and distinctive features of each region. Finally, the Enactment plan should be established through collective and professional consultation process such as curriculum study groups or learning communities. It is anticipated that the possibility of implementing national curriculum standards on the actual classroom practice will be higher than it is now when they are applied to classrooms creatively and voluntarily.

Perceived Effectiveness of Non-Monetray Rewards on South East Educational Region Employee Satisfaction.

The study sought employee perceptions on the effects of non-monetary rewards on job satisfaction in South East Regional Education Office. To get some clues of perceptions, the South East Regional Education Office was selected through convenient sampling for the purpose of the study. From this region, employees of the headquarters of South East Regional Education office were involved. The study used a closed ended questionnaire and an interview schedule for data collection while the analysis of results was carried out using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. As an illustration, a one way ANOVA was used to test for differences in employees’ perceptions by gender, while data from interviews thematic analysis was used to analyse data. The findings revealed that majority of the employees felt they were not involved in decision making processes and that they were not recognised for efforts made in the execution of their duties. Furthermore, most of the employees felt that they were not empowered to acquire skills that would enable them to take independent decisions. Male employees indicated that there was minimal delegation of responsibilities. The employees also decried lack of teamwork among members of the organisation, a situation that is detrimental to the success of the organisation. It is recommended that supervisors should employ non-monetary rewards in the form of providing job enrichment activities supported by mentoring and coaching. Regular meetings across different cadres should be scheduled to promote employee involvement in decision making processes. Also it has to be further studied the types of support supervisors needed in order to effectively integrate non-monetary rewards in their supervision structures.

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools: results from a process evaluation of the National Sanitation Campaign in Tanzania

This study assesses the intermediate outcomes of the Tanzania National Sanitation Campaign (NSC) for schools. A cross-sectional study was designed as part of a process evaluation of the NSC in Tanzania on 70 primary schools and 54 regional and district education officers. Data was collected between August and December 2014 using questionaires, key informant interviews, and desk studies. The results showed that only 50% of schools met the Tanzania guideline of 50 boys per drop hole, while 43% met the guideline of 40 girls per drop hole. In addition, 53% of schools had a reliable water supply, 43% had some functional handwashing stations, but only 29% and 19% had water and soap available at the stations, respectively. Overall, the implementation of the NSC in schools was found to be effective, though poor planning and coordination, inadequate funding, and low technical capacity were identified as barriers to achieve the intended objectives. The study recommends stronger and coordinated stakeholder partnerships with clearly defined roles including cost sharing. Government and other stakeholders should also consider the impact of increasing funding for both software and hardware components to improve the enabling environment, and to develop a standardised monitoring mechanism for sustainable school water, sanitation and hygiene.

Sunny Island. An Interactive Learning Environment to Promote Systems Thinking Education for Primary School Students

To make the process of learning easier for students, schoolteachers are increasingly using Interactive Learning Environments (ILEs) in classrooms. The paper presents a system dynamics-based ILE called Sunny Island. The ILE has been designed to promote Systems Thinking (ST) education for primary school students. Through a funny fantasy tale - described in detail in a book that accompanies the ILE - students have the opportunity to discover and become familiar with the basic principles of ST, such as feedback, positive and negative causal influences, limits to growth, short and long term effects, counterintuitive behaviors, causes of policy resistances and dynamic complexity. The proposed ILE has been designed through Powersim Studio 10, a simulation software that has been used to model the social phenomena described in the tale. A pilot project has been designed to test the effectiveness of the Sunny Island ILE. Six Italian primary schools have been involved in a pilot project, which is also supervised by a Regional Education Office, a public body that represents the Ministry of Education at a local level. The very first results show a positive impact of the Sunny Island ILE on ST education.

Un análisis de los resultados del Segundo y Tercer Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo: el caso Argentino –SERCE 2006 y TERCE 2013– / An Analysis of the Results of the Second and Third Regional Study Comparing and Explaining: The Argentine Case –SERCE 2006 and TERCE 2013–

This article aims to present the main findings of the comparative results of the SERCE 2006 and the TERCE 2013, organized by the Latin - American Laboratory for Assessment of Educational Quality (LLECE) of the Regional Education Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO, Santiago). It will focus on school performance of students in Argentina and gender perspectives in this opportunity. To do this, the distribution of Argentine students is presented, according to their levels of performance and average scores in school years and evaluated areas, in addition, to learning results achieved by students in 3rd and 6th year of Primary Education in the areas of Language, Mathematics and Science. These data are also disaggregated by gender. Exploratory study proposed in the local context, to visualize processes and tensions within a practice that requires multiple public discussions and thoughtful looks. Some analysis of public databases of UNESCO, were made. In addition, it conducted a review of the documents published by the LLECE and other authors who investigated subjects related to this article.

Requerimientos jurídicos de la administración de la educación a la luz de las exigencias de la administración educativa moderna

This article is the conclusion of a research project analyzing the legal requirements pertaining to Costa Rica´s educational administrative system in light of modern demands and guidelines for educational administrators in addressing legal demands. This will serve as a legal framework guideline for school directors from the 4th circuit of the Metropolitan Regional Education Office in San Jose (DRESJC). This research project is qualitative as well as phenomenological and based on open interviews to collect study data based on visits made to eleven school directors/principals in the 4th Circuit. The findings conclude that specific skills and knowledge is required for adequately understanding the legal framework of the Costa Rican educational system and putting into practice. It also identifies those laws and regulations that all school directors/principals should know and compared it to their current understanding with regards to how these laws are applied to their administrative duties and existing knowledge gaps among school administrators.

Empirical Analysis on Rao-Scott First Order Adjustment for Two Population Homogeneity test Based on Stratified Three-Stage Cluster Sampling with PPS

AbstractNational-wide and/or large scale sample surveys generally use complex sample design. Traditional Pearson chi-square test is not appropriate for the categorical complex sample data. Rao-Scott suggested an adjustment method for Pearson chi-square test, which uses the average of eigenvalues of design matrix of cell probabilities. This study is to compare the efficiency of Rao-S cott first order adjusted test to Wald test for homogeneity between two populations using 2009 Gyeongnam regional education offices's customer satisfaction survey (2009 GREOCSS) data. The 2009 GREOCSS data were collected based on stratified three-stage cluster sampling with probability proportional to size. The empirical results show that the Rao-Scott adjusted teststatistic using only the variances of cell probabilities is very close to the Wald test statistic, which uses the covariance matrix ofcell probabilities, under the 2009 GREOCSS data based. However it is necessary to be cautious to use the Rao-Scott first order adjusted test statistic in the place of Wald test because its efficiency is decreasing as the relative variance of eigenvalues of the design matrix of cell probabilities is increasing, specially more when the number of degrees of freedom is small.

기후 및 에너지사용 변화에 따른 학교시설 LCC분석 보정을 위한 수선교체기준 영향 변수 및 공종별 가중치 도출

There are 11,080 primary, middle and high schools throughout the nation including approximately 30,000 facilities. 49% of them have been worn out over 20 years and become increasingly deteriorated. For maintenance of school facilities, regular safety checks have been conducted under control of relevant departments of regional Education Office. However, as maintenance cost increases due to damages of abrupt climate change, no additional budget has been arranged. In addition, school facilities which has been performed under 8-year Build-Transfer-Lease projects conducted Life Cycle Cost analysis in planning and design stage and 25-year prospective maintenance fee was estimated. However, it could not reflect climate or energy consumption environments changes. To solve these problems, affecting variables on climate and energy consumption environment changes which might affect LCC analysis and maintenance were drawn. For major factors, climate change variables were temperature, precipitation, humidity, natural disaster, etc. Energy consumption environment variables were school grade, source of energy, work type, room, class size, etc. Targeting experts and hands-on workers, multi-criteria decision making method was applied to analyze propriety of climate and energy consumption environment affecting variables and level of impact of them on work type. Results of this study as Variables affecting climate and energy consuming environment change, weights, and the level of impact on work type can be applied as compensation coefficients for school facility LCC analysis results.

SBAM! A programme to make healthy children in region of Puglia.

In the region of Puglia in 2010 the rate of childhood overweight was 26% and that of obesity 14%. Prevention of childhood obesity, through its risk factors modification, is a public health aim of the regional government. During the last years several initiatives have been taken to promote healthy nutrition and increasing of physical activity. However, the huge number of activities promoted by health, political institutions, NGOs, etc. highlighted the limits of the lack of coordination among the main stakeholders, as well limited the impact and the comparison of the outcomes of the different programmes. To create a unique preventive programme 5 regional departments (Health, Sport, Agriculture, Education, and Urbanization) unified their financial, human, and strategic resources to promote healthy lifestyle. In addition, a memorandum of understanding was established between the regional health department and the Regional Education Office to develop shared high quality initiatives to promote health education in schools. From this alliance was developed the programme “SBAM!”, composed by different actions financed by the different departments, but all together pieces of only one programme. The programme involved 19,000 children 8 years old attending the 3rd class of the primary school. Sport dept. financed 1 more hour of physical education per week; agriculture dept. financed 1 laboratory of horticulture and 1 explanatory meeting with parents; health dept. financed 1 meeting with parents and 1 with teachers, as well as meetings with children during the school hours; education dept. paid all the booklets; urbanization dept. financed children’s ideas to improve the city’s urban design.

A comparative Study on Implementation of Aesthetics Education in Selected Government and Private School in Debremarkos Town

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible factors affecting implementation of aesthetics education in government and private school in Debremarkos town. Facility conditions and school outcomes such as student academic achievement, attendance, interest, completion of given period and teacher information about aesthetics. School facility condition for the implementation of aesthetics in the schools was determined by the interest of students, lack of materials and information gap.Through the use of four different research instruments, the ultimate goal of this study was to ensure the factors affecting implementation of aesthetics education in selected school. Through the use of students’ questionnaire, are provided some insights into the teachers’ real practices and their preferences of teaching aesthetics education in the school. It is also clear that most of problem is shared in teachers, students and administrative bodies. Regarding when should teachers teach aesthetics education they want to let students to play in the field? The marking strategy teachers’ use was also in problem of recording in their school because of sometimes they divided aesthetics marks for other subjects. Aesthetics education is no doubt a vital component in teaching any subjects easily and developing adequate children education proficiency. However, in different schools aesthetics education is not given depending on the curriculum designed by ministry of education. Depending on the data gathered from students and teachers using questionnaire interview and document analysis we concluded that schools haven’t enough aesthetics education teachers, aesthetics teachers have information gap, teachers were not teaching depending on the curriculum, there are lack of Music and Art material in the school, the school director don’t follow up ,teachers don’t take attendance in the period of aesthetics and the let students to play in the field. The researchers recommendations based upon this study include the following: The school, Debremarkos in the school, Amahara regional education office and ten concerned college should increase the enrolments of aesthetics teachers, College teachers should increase their relation with them to solve the problem, School director and other concerned body should follow up the implementation depending on the education office and Amahara regional education office should better to full fill the instruments designed curriculum and the criteria that the college uses to select students should be depending on practical aspects.