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Quality Schooling versus School Performance: What Do Students and Teachers Think?.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Silins, Halia Murray-Harvey, Rosalind |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Abstract | This study examined the potential of indicators such as student learning approaches, student self-concept, and attitudes to school life to discriminate between high and low performing secondary schools as categorized by external achievement measures. The sample consisted of 10 Adelaide (South Australia) schools: 5 of the highest performing schools and 5 of the lowest performing schools ranked by the number of university places offered to school graduates. About 90 Year 11 students frov each school completed questionnaires administered in the penultimate term of the school year. Students provided data on their self-concept, attitudes towards school, and approaches to learning. Approximately 20 teachers from each school provided data on school organization and leadership, and perceptions of school outcomes related to their own performance, student performance, school culture, and the curriculum. Analysis found no significant differences overall between high and low performance schools on students' approaches to learning. However, students in the academically successful schools were found to have more general satisfaction with school life, higher feelings of adequacy in interactions with teachers, and higher sense of prestige. Teachers in high performance schools saw their school's leadership as bureaucratic, task and policy driven, and reacting to change independently of staff needs and concerns. These results indicate that high performance schools are more likely to provide quality schooling than low performance schools; high achieving schools provide a context for working and learning that is more effective across a range of school outcomes. The appendix contains 6 additional tables. (Contains 31 references.) (JB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * *********************************************************************** QUALITY SCHOOLING VERSUS SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: WHAT DO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THINK? Halia Silins and Rosalind Murray-Harvey The Flinders University Of South Australia School of Education PERMISSION 70 REFRODI'CE THIS MATER;AL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED385531.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
