Role Of School Management Research Articles

Awareness towards cybercrime among secondary school students: the role of gender and school management

PurposeThe study aims to determine the cybercrime awareness among secondary school students with reference to their gender and school management type.Design/methodology/approachFor the purpose, a sample of 100 students from secondary schools situated in Lucknow city, state of Uttar Pradesh, India was selected. To obtain initial data from the respondents and to determine the cybercrime awareness categories a five-point Likert type cybercrime awareness rating scale exclusively constructed to fulfil the purpose of this study was used to determine the cybercrime awareness in five categories viz; excellent, high, above average, average, below average and low cybercrime awareness. Further, “t” test was used to analyse the difference between the means of groups.FindingsResults revealed that gender (male and female) and type of school management (government and self-finance) are not significant predictors of cybercrime awareness among secondary school students.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited to the government and self-finance English medium schools of Lucknow city, state of Uttar Pradesh, India.Practical implicationsPolicymakers, various societies involved in investigating cyber behavior/child computer interaction/safer communities, etc. should consider that school management is not a predictor of cybercrime along with gender and can look for other possible visible and latent factors affecting cybercrime awareness among students while formulating a policy or designing a course/prevention program for secondary school students.Social implicationsSchool administration should consider the existing gender and school management roles of the present scenario to make effective policies for the students and providing them effective cybercrime prevention programs and activities. Also, parents can adequately understand the role of school management type and gender of their belongings to understand their cybercrime awareness and take necessary measures accordingly.Originality/valueThe paper is focused on the cybercrime awareness of secondary school students and how their gender and school management type affects their cybercrime awareness. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is first of its kind which investigates the role of school management in cybercrime awareness of the students. As the education sector is depending more and more on the cyber world, this paper is of the great significance for the safety of education sector, organizations and communities involved in making the policies and designing the curriculum to avoid students being a victim of cybercrime and to make education sector a safer community.

The Role of School Management Towards Staff Motivation for Effective Performance in Nepal: During the Covid-19

This study attempts to investigates the role of motivation on academic staffs of private school in Nepal. To analyze the staff motivation, a descriptive cum exploratory research design along with structured questionnaire has been administered for data collection. Out of total 291 private school in Lalitpur metropolitan city 20 schools were selected for this study, purposive sampling method is used as per the convenient of the researchers. The result of the study clearly depict that the role of school management towards staff motivation for effective performance is found to be inferior in practice. Therefore, the study concludes that, to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 during and after the crisis, the ground reality of staff’s motivation must be taken into consideration. The present research recommended that there is a substantial room for motivation in private school, Nepal because role on motivation in school is far from satisfactory. Thus to improve the situation congenial climate should be provided and encouragement should be taken.

The Role of School Management Towards Staff Motivation for Effective Performance in Nepal: During the Covid-19

This study attempts to investigates the role of motivation on academic staffs of private school in Nepal. To analyze the staff motivation, a descriptive cum exploratory research design along with structured questionnaire has been administered for data collection. Out of total 291 private school in Lalitpur metropolitan city 20 schools were selected for this study, purposive sampling method is used as per the convenient of the researchers. The result of the study clearly depict that the role of school management towards staff motivation for effective performance is found to be inferior in practice. Therefore, the study concludes that, to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 during and after the crisis, the ground reality of staff’s motivation must be taken into consideration. The present research recommended that there is a substantial room for motivation in private school, Nepal because role on motivation in school is far from satisfactory. Thus to improve the situation congenial climate should be provided and encouragement should be taken.

VIEWS OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS ON THE INTERIOR ELEMENTS IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT IN DISTANCE EDUCATION IN COVID 19 PROCESS: A CASE SCHOOL STUDY

The aim of this study is to examine the views of school principals regarding internal elements that play a role in school management in distance education practice. The study group of the study, which is modeled according to the phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research methods, consists of 30 school principals working in the province of Malatya in the 2020-2021 academic year. The data collected through the semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher were deciphered using the content analysis technique. As a result of the research; It is observed that the relations of school principals with teachers, students, parents and senior management are negatively affected. Apart from this, it was determined that the workload of school principals increased and they had control and follow up problems. In this process, it was concluded that school principals 'cooperation with teachers decreased, they could not respond to the needs of students immediately, they were more exposed to parents' complaints, and their communication with the top management (provincial and district national education directorate) decreased. According to the opinions of the school principals, it was concluded that the teachers adapted to distance education technology, were able to create an efficient lesson environment and constantly improve themselves. The most common problems teachers experience in practice are not getting healthy feedback from students, student absenteeism, weakening of group communication and sharing, and not getting efficiency from applied lessons. According to the school principals, it is observed that students adapt to technology, their understanding of responsibility has developed and they have acquired the habit of individual learning. According to their managers, during the pandemic, the workload of non-educators has decreased and their job performance has decreased. The common recommendation of school principals to teachers, students and parents is to prepare the working environment.

Exploration of campus card management from the perspective of network security

Campus card business, as an important part of the construction of the "smart campus", greatly facilitates the learning and living of teachers and students, and plays an important role in school management and decision support. Due to the large number of campus card users, many terminal devices, and large amounts of data, as well as with the applications of new technologies such as mobile payments and virtual campus cards, the tasks of the current daily management of campus card become more and more heavily. At the same time, other issues, such as network attacks, data leakage, data abuse and so on, become more and more serious. In this paper, from the perspective of network security management, we consider the physical security, system security, application security, data security, and security management. We take measures in three aspects, i. e., the campus card system planning and construction, network security protection, security operation and maintenance. Such measures effectively reduce the security risk of the card system, provide network security guarantee for the campus card system, and thereby promot the construction of "smart campus", improve work efficiency and the quality and management level of information services.

دور الإدارة المدرسیة فی توفیر بیئة مدرسیة آمنة فی المدارس الحکومیة الأساسیة من (1-10) الأساسی فی محافظات شمال الضفة الغربیة من وجهات نظر المعلمین فیها Role of School Management in Providing A Safe School Environment in Basic Public Schools from (1-10) in directorates of Northern West Bank from their Teachers' perspective

تهدف الدراسة الحالية التعرف إلى دور الإدارة المدرسية في توفير بيئة مدرسية آمنة في المدارس الحکومية الأساسية من (1-10) الأساسي في مديريات شمال الضفة الغربية من وجهات نظر المعلمين، إضافة إلى بيان الاختلاف في وجهات النظر تبعا لمتغيرات الجنس وسنوات الخبرة وموقع المدرسة . ولتحقيق هدف الدراسة استخدم الباحثون المنهج الوصفي وقاموا بإعداد استبانة بالاعتماد على الأدب النظري ذي الصلة، واحتوت على ثمانية مجالات موزعة في(63) فقرة، وتم التأکد من صدق الاستبانة وثباتها. تم تحليل البيانات باستخدام الرزمة الإحصائية للعلوم الاجتماعية (SPSS) من خلال اختبار ت وتحليل التباين الأحادي، وقد أظهرت الدراسة وجود درجة کبيرة لدور الإدارة المدرسية في توفير بيئة مدرسية آمنة في المدارس الحکومية الأساسية من (1-10) الأساسي في محافظات شمال الضفة الغربية من وجهات نظر المعلمين, کما أظهرت الدراسة عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية عند مستوى الدلالة (p= 0.05) بين متوسطات وجهات نظر المعلمين في مجالات دور الإدارة المدرسية في توفير بيئة مدرسية آمنة تعزى لمتغير الجنس وموقع المدرسة، بينما توجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية عند مستوى الدلالة (p= 0.05) بين متوسطات وجهات نظر المعلمين في مجالات دور الإدارة المدرسية في توفير بيئة مدرسية آمنة تعزى لمتغير سنوات الخبرة. وأوصت الدراسة بضرورة نشر الوعي بأهمية البيئة المدرسية الآمنة بين جميع العاملين في المدرسة، وتدريب المديرين بشکل دوري للحفاظ على بيئة مدرسية آمنة. The current study aims to identify the role of school management in providing a safe school environment in basic public schools from (1-10) in directorates of northern west bank from their teachers' perspective. Also, it aims to identify the differences in the role of school management in providing a safe school environment from their teachers' perspective according to variables of sex, years of experience and school location. To achieve the aim of study, researchers use the descriptive approach and prepare a questionnaire based on related theoretical literature. The questionnaire contains eight domains distributed in (63) paragraphs. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire are confirmed. Data is analyzed using (SPSS). Several tests are used included T-test and One Way Anova. Results show that there is a high degree for the role of school management in providing a safe school according to sample's point of views. There isn’t any statistically significant differences at (p =0.05) between male and female in the role of school management in providing a safe school due to variables of sex and school location, while there are statistically significant differences due to years of experience. Several recommendations are suggested according to the study include : increasing and spreading awareness of safe school environment among all school staff, training school principals regularly and continuously to achieve the requirements of a safe school environment.

Influence of the Board of Management Financial Practices on Students' Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Nyamira County Kenya

The Board of Management plays an important role in school management which encompasses policy formulation and resource allocation. This study therefore sought to investigate the influence of the Board of Management financial practices on students' academic performance in public secondary schools in Nyamira County, Kenya. A convergent parallel mixed-method research design was used. The study targeted students, teachers, departmental heads and Board of Management Members making a total study population of 19,609. Both probability and non-probability sampling methods were used to select a sample size of 396 participants. Data was collected using questionnaires, interview guide observation tool and school examination performance analysis document. Statistical package for social sciences aided the quantitative analysis, while qualitative data used thematic analysis technique. Reliability testing was done using Cronbach’s Alpha. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to present the analyzed data. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test significance between means. The study found out that there was a statistical significant association between board of management financial practices and student academic performance. The study also found out that Board of management did not utilize the school finances well and therefore students’ academic performance was affected. The study recommended that Board of Management, in collaboration with the government, should ensure appointment of board members with some basic financial management literacy. Keywords: Board of Management, Students' Academic Performance, Financial Management. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-23-02 Publication date: August 31 st 2020

Role of Management in Teaching Practices Private Schools of District Central Karachi

The situation of public schools in rural and urban areas is not much good, that’s why parents are giving preference to private schools for their children’s education. This study focused on the role of school management team in improving teaching practices. Apart from the reviewed literature, an empirical investigation based on a quantitative research was used to collect data from 100 private schools of district Central Karachi. The results of the study revealed that the role of school management for enhance quality teaching practice in private secondary schools of central district Karachi. From this perspective, work climate plays vital role in teacher performance. Furthermore, it is very necessary to value the teaching learning process by helping teachers regard teaching matters. Providing job related resources and facilities are the responsibility of school management. Positive relationship among teaching staff and management staff plays important role in teaching learning process.

Influence of Gender Stereotyping Dynamics on Appointment of Female Teachers as Secondary School Principals in Makueni Sub-county, Makueni County, Kenya

Female teachers play an important role in school management. However, their number in positions of school headship is low. The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of gender dynamics on the appointment of female teachers as secondary school principals in Makueni Sub-county, Makueni County, Kenya. The objectives were: to assess the influence of female teachers’ gender roles, self-perception, stereotyping and management training on appointment as secondary school Principals. The study was guided by The Pearson’s Theory of Gender Relations and Feminism Theory. Mixed methodology was applied and thus concurrent triangulation design was adopted. Qualitative data were analyzed thematically along the objectives and presented narrative forms. Quantitative data were analyzed descriptively using frequencies and percentages and inferentially using linear regression analysis with the help of Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS Version 23) and presented using tables. The study established that gender stereotyping is a major hindrance to female teachers’ desire to seek to positions of headship. The study recommends that educational policy-makers to come up with policies that create positions for women to eliminate gender imbalance in education administration. Policy makers to come up with a curriculum that include gender issues for purpose of sensitizing the community on the social/cultural barriers which cause gender imbalance in education administration. The Ministry of Education should come up with a policy where attendance of workshops and seminars is a compulsory requirement for all teachers in order to build skills and knowledge on their careers and give women chances to compete favorably with men.

O impacto da participação dos pais e encarregados de educação na gestão escolar: um estudo realizado na Escola do I Ciclo Elimabe I em Malanje

A família é o centro de todo o processo de ensino e aprendizagem, pelo facto de ser a célula básica da sociedade e o local onde o educando passa maior tempo durante todo o acto da sua formação académica e social. A família, deve ser chamada para participar de forma reciproca na construção de um novo ser para o mundo, pois que a sociedade faz-se por consensos, esta participação provocará impacto na gestão do processo de ensino e aprendizagem. O educando, é aquele que terá a missão fundamental de assumir diferentes papéis para o desenvolvimento sustentável e integral da sociedade por todas as suas vertentes. A escola, deve promover uma gestão participativa, fazendo com que a família participe na gestão do processo educatico do aluno, garantido deste modo a qualidade do ensino. Este artigo, tem como objectivo geral abordar aspectos ligados ao grau de participação da família e o papel na gestão escolar como no rendimento das aprendizagens dos educandos. Seleccionamos as técnicas de entrevista e questionário, a metodologia é qualitativa com a amostra de 48 sujeitos, entre eles: director, professores, alunos pais e encarregados de educação, extraído num total da população de 211 elementos.

Posibilidades, limitaciones y demandas de los centros educativos del medio rural en el norte y sur de España contemplados desde la dirección escolar

La complejidad de los numerosos centros educativos situados en el medio rural exige estudios específicos. Dado que todas las investigaciones señalan el papel relevante de las direcciones escolares, en este artículo se pretende conocer la situación de las escuelas rurales españolas, a partir de la realización de entrevistas a directores escolares de dos comunidades autónomas con el objetivo de conocer sus posibilidades, limitaciones y demandas en la actualidad. Los resultados muestran semejanzas y diferencias singulares entre las escuelas unitarias, los colegios rurales agrupados y los centros de educación infantil y primaria. Las conclusiones revelan una escuela rural que tiene posibilidades como la individualización de la enseñanza debido a las ratios bajas; limitaciones como la interinidad del profesorado, contextos aislados o desfavorecidos y bajo nivel cultural o expectativas educativas; y demandas de servicios e infraestructuras, de dotación en tecnologías de la información, y de oferta cultural en las proximidades del centro.

Art Education, Therapy Interventions and School Management in Autism

A variety of research has shown that involvement in the arts increases student achievement across all subject areas, as well as social and adaptive skills. Accordingly, special education and art integration might be beneficial on many levels for individuals with ASD as well. This study aims to determine the trends in the studies on autism and arts through content analysis and discuss the role of school management in art education for individuals with autism. Several databases were examined in the study in order to carry out the content analysis in order to provide a review of on the studies related with art interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Articles published in academic databases were examined based on certain criteria including year of publication, research subject, sample, name of the journals, authors in the studies. Data were analyzed based on content analysis method. Results are discussed with reference to relevant literature and implications for further research and practices are also provided.

دور الإدارة المدرسية في مواجهة التسرب في المدارس الحكومية بمحافظة خان يونس: دراسة ميدانية

This study aimed to identify the role of school management in facing drop out at government schools in Khan Younis Governorate from the point of view of teachers, revealing whether there are statistically significant differences between the average estimates of the sample members attributed to variables (gender, qualification, years of service, educational level). The study was based on the descriptive/analytical approach, with a sample consisted of (232) male and female teachers, who were asked to fill in a questionnaire consisting of (49) items.The study found that teachers' assessment of the role of school management in facing drop out was high, by a percentage of (81.3%),; according to fields, the leadership role ranked in the first order, followed by the technical affairs "supervision" role ", and then the administrative role, and finally the social role. It also found that there are significant differences between the average of the sample estimates due to qualification and the years of service in favor of the bachelor's degree and the teachers with in service (more than 10 years), while there were no statistically significant differences between the average estimates of the sample estimates due to the variables: gender and educational level. The study recommended the importance of conducing workshops and lectures to present the developed countries experiments in facing schools' drop out and train the school management on stress release as well as the organizational effectiveness.

دور الإدارة المدرسية في مواجهة التسرب في المدارس الحكومية بمحافظة خان يونس: دراسة ميدانية

This study aimed to identify the role of school management in facing drop out at government schools in Khan Younis Governorate from the point of view of teachers, revealing whether there are statistically significant differences between the average estimates of the sample members attributed to variables (gender, qualification, years of service, educational level). The study was based on the descriptive/analytical approach, with a sample consisted of (232) male and female teachers, who were asked to fill in a questionnaire consisting of (49) items.The study found that teachers' assessment of the role of school management in facing drop out was high, by a percentage of (81.3%),; according to fields, the leadership role ranked in the first order, followed by the technical affairs "supervision" role ", and then the administrative role, and finally the social role. It also found that there are significant differences between the average of the sample estimates due to qualification and the years of service in favor of the bachelor's degree and the teachers with in service (more than 10 years), while there were no statistically significant differences between the average estimates of the sample estimates due to the variables: gender and educational level. The study recommended the importance of conducing workshops and lectures to present the developed countries experiments in facing schools' drop out and train the school management on stress release as well as the organizational effectiveness.

Role of School Management for Improving Life Skills of Secondary Students of Different Subject Streams

The present study was conducted to investigate into the role of school management, that is government and private schools in promoting life skills of secondary school students from various subject streams. A sample of 150 students of XI grades was drawn from the representative secondary schools of Chandigarh. Four life skills were selected to be studied, namely decision making, problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills. A 2×2 ANOVA test was applied on scores of each skill separately. The major findings of the study were

تفعیل دور الإدارة المدرسیة فی تشجیع طلاب المرحلة المتوسطة بمدینة الریاض على القراءة الحرة من وجهة نظر مُشرفی ومُعلمی تلک المدارس Activating the Role of School Management to Encourage Middle Schools Students in Riyadh to Free Reading.

هدفت الدراسة إلى تفعيل دور الإدارة المدرسية في تشجيع طلاب المرحلة المتوسطة بمدينة الرياض على القراءة الحرة من وجهة نظر المشرفين والمعلمين، واستخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي المسحي، وبلغت عينة الدراسة 401 فردا؛ منهم 95 مشرفا تربويا يمثلون 24% من مشرفي مجتمع الدراسة، و306 معلما يمثلون 5% من معلمي مجتمع الدراسة، وقد تکونت أداة الدراسة (الاستبانة) من (42) عبارة. وأکدت نتائج الدراسة أن هناک عزوفا لدى طلاب المرحلة المتوسطة عن القراءة الحرة، وأکدت على أن من أهم أسباب هذا العزوف ما يلي: 1- الانشغال بوسائل الترفيه المتنوعة. 2- ضعف إدراک أهمية القراءة. 3- قلة الدافعية نحو القراءة. 4- قلة اهتمام المجتمع بالقراءة. ومن أهم مقترحات الدراسة ما يلي: 1- إجراء مسابقات خاصة بالقراءة الحرة. 2- توفير مکتبة مدرسية تناسب ميول الطلاب. 3- الاستفادة من المکتبة المدرسية ومرکز مصادر التعلم. 4- التوعية بأهمية القراءة الحرة. 5- إقامة معارض ومسابقات للکتب داخل المدرسة. وفي ضوء نتائج الدراسة تم تقديم عدد من التوصيات العملية. Abstract: The study aimed mainly to identifying the most important solutions and proposals and means that help to activate the role of school Management to encourage middle schools students in Riyadh to free The study used descriptive survey method, and the total of Study Sample was 401: 95 supervisors (24% of supervisors of study population), and 306 teachers (5% of teachers of study population). And the most important results of study: (1-) 77% Do not agree the phrase Students keen on free reading on a regular basis. (2-) 74% Do not agree the phrase Students keen to visit public libraries during the leisure to free reading. (3-) 94% Agree the phrase Lack of motivation among students to free reading. (4-) 92% Agree the phrase Weak understand the importance of free reading for students. (5-) 92% Agree the phrase Encourage students to borrow books from the school library, phrase of Encourage students on free reading. (6-) 92% Agree the phrase Providing library school contain books commensurate with tendencies and desires of students, phrase of Encourage students on free reading.

The Role of the School Administration to Deepen the Sense of National Belonging and the Impact on the Degree of National Belonging among High School Students in Jordan: Aqaba Governorate Case Study

This study aimed at identifying the role of the school administration to deepen the sense of national belonging among students and to know its effect on the degree of national belonging of high school students in Jordan.JordanTo achieve this objective a questionnaire was designed depending on previous studies. Results showed that the role of school management to deepen the sense of national belonging was high, and that the degree of national belonging to the students was high. Also, results showed an effect of statistical significance of the role of school management to deepen the sense of national belonging on the degree of national belonging to the students. The study recommended the need to work on educational institutions, courses and school activities taking place on the concept of citizenship and belonging and interpretation of concepts and terminology of different national and political.

The Role of School Management in the Prevention of School Violence

Reducing violent behavior in school to increase students’ academic achievement in secondary schools, with training and guidance given to the administrators and teachers throughout the year. This study was carried out at intervals of one year in counties of Ankara (Pursaklar) and İzmir (Buca). Every month for a period of one year, administrators and teachers in the study group are given training and guidance support. As a result of the application, administrators and teachers’ attitudes had changed significantly in favor of the study group. Also in favor of study groups, administrators, teachers and students’ perception of violence has decreased significantly, a statistically significant increase in students’ academic achievement were determined

The Role of School Management in Enhancement of Foreign Language Education

Improvement of foreign language teaching in schools is a major political and social challenge in today’s globalized world. Transition to competence-based paradigm requires proficiency in new methodology, curriculum design and assessment techniques. The present article examines the specifics of the implementation of new Federal State Educational Standards (FSES) in the context of foreign language teaching in Russia. The purpose of the article is to describe the authors’ conception on achieving the Standards requirements in foreign language schooling. In the beginning, this paper highlights the reasons for prioritizing foreign language proficiency at school level and evaluates the situation with foreign language teaching in the Russian Federation. Further, the paper looks at the traditional roles of teachers in a teacher-centred classroom that is detrimental to the development of learners’ personality. The paper then goes on to present key innovative multi-facet roles of the foreign language teacher. The conceptual approach focuses on the prerequisites for the development of a new socio-educational environment and gives educators practical advice concerning the ways of successful transmuting the FSES requirements into foreign language teaching.

Learner Participation in School Governance: The Views of Learner Governors in South African Schools

This article explores the view of learner governors in school management in South Africa. The South African Schools Act No. 84 of 1996 stipulates that all public secondary schools in South Africa must have democratically elected Representative Councils of Learners (RCL). This Act was intended to foster collective decision-making in schools. Apart from a literature review on learner management, empirical study investigation based on quantitative research paradigm was used to collect data from learner governors on their role in school management. The findings highlighted the important functions of learner governors in schools and it is concluded by the submission that it is essential for schools to build the necessary frameworks and communication avenues for developing learner governors. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p1807