Best practice of framing and communicating school goals by principals of cluster secondary schools Malaysia: perceptions of principals, teacher-administrators and teachers
The Ministry of Education Malaysia launched the implementation of cluster secondary schools aim to develop and produce excellent students in the curriculum and co-curriculum. The achievement of the students is in the full power and authority of the principal primarily through the effective functio...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/26878/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26878/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26878/1/Best_Practice_of_Framing_and_Communicating_School.pdf |
| Summary: | The Ministry of Education Malaysia launched the implementation of cluster secondary schools aim to
develop and produce excellent students in the curriculum and co-curriculum. The achievement of the
students is in the full power and authority of the principal primarily through the effective function of
defining the school mission. Hence, the purpose of the study is to examine the practice of framing and
communicating school goals by the principals of the Cluster Secondary Schools, Malaysia as perceived
by 418 respondents comprises of 12 Principals, 120 Teacher-Administrators, and, 286 Teachers of
selected cluster secondary schools in Malaysia. The study used questionnaire as a mean of data collection.
The data was analyzed by SPSS version 17.0 and presented in frequency and mean. The findings of the
study indicate that the ‘use of data on student academic performance’ were highly used when framing
school goals with highest mean score 4.26 and its standard deviation standing at 0.808. The findings also
show that the highest score on communicating schools goals was item ‘discuss the school's academic
goals with teachers at faculty meetings’ with mean 4.21 and standard deviation 0.839. It is clear that the
finding is very significant to the success implementation of cluster secondary schools in developing and
producing excellent students who are nationally and internationally competence and accepted to pursue
studies in the world prestigious universities. |
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