Quality Management at School and Its Connection to Organizational School Climate

Author(s):

Ilona Jireckova

Conference:

ECER 2009

Network:

21. Emerging Researchers' Group (for presentation at Emerging Researchers' Conference)

Format:

Paper

Session Information

SES B8, Pre Conf Parallel Session

Time:

2009-09-25

11:00-12:30

Room:

HG, HS 16

Chair:

Graham Hallett

Contribution

In the report we will introduce a discussion of quality, as a concept, and its relationship with a school´s organizational climate. The thesis deals chiefly with the problems of quality management in schools, and its connection to the organizational climate of specific schools. The aim is to find out and describe the possible connections between these two areas. Is there a different organizational climate at school which puts an impact on quality, and school which does not? And how does the climate differ? The research also presents principles of ISO9001 norms and its certification at various schools. We introduce a methodology of the research, development of the main methods used, as well as the results carried out in a pre-research inquiry. The research will be structured into two parts according to the methods used. The first part will be based on a questionnaire on the description of the school´s organizational climate (in reference to Grecmanová) in which teachers, deputy directors and directors will be interviewed. In the second part, we will use a semantic differential for assessing ten notions connected to organizational climate and quality management itself. We expect to find an overall assessment of this area, and will draw some connections between notions of organizational climate and quality management. We will compare the results from two groups of schools (ones with or without the ISO certification). Our goal is to provide information about 10 chosen areas and their possible connections, making sure not to describe a comprehensive area on the subject of quality.

Method

Firstly, we plan to use a questionnaire for the description of organizational school climate (Grecmanová) for teachers, directors and deputy directors. Secondly, we will use our two-factor semantic differential for assessing ten notions connected to climate and quality management for the same group of respondents. All notions will be assessed by group of ten antinomy adjectives. In our pre-research we will test this tool on approximately 44 teachers, 1 deputy director and 1 director of the chosen school. Later we will chose probably 2 or 3 secondary schools with ISO 9001 certificate and the same number of secondary schools with no quality certification. For analysing data, we will use the Statistica program.

Expected Outcomes

We expect to find out an overall assessment of the school organizational climate and any connections between notions of organizational climate and quality management. We will compare the results from two groups of schools (with or without the ISO certification). We will discuss and inform researchers on the construction of our semantic differential, its testing and results from pre-research. The thesis is contributing to the actual discourse on themes dealing with school climate and quality management at schools.

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Author Information

Ilona Jireckova

Palacký University, Olomouc

Pedagogical Faculty

Chrudim

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