An Action Plan for Improving Mediocre or Stagnant Student Achievement

Autor/in	Redmond, Kimberley B.
Titel	An Action Plan for Improving Mediocre or Stagnant Student Achievement
Quelle	(2013), (277 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ed.D. Dissertation, Walden University
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-3034-8853-5
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Foreign Countries; Educational Improvement; Academic Achievement; Stakeholders; Public Schools; School Culture; Interviews; Meetings; Network Analysis; Social Networks; Educational Innovation; Capacity Building; Qualitative Research; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Ausland; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Schulleistung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Meeting; Tagung; Netzplantechnik; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Qualitative Forschung; Italien
Abstract	Although all of the schools in the target school system adhere to a school improvement process, achievement scores remain mediocre or stagnant within the overseas school in Italy that serves children of United States armed service members. To address this problem, this study explored the target school's improvement process to discover how different stakeholder groups viewed that process. The aim of these investigations was to determine if different stakeholder groups' competing values hindered the school's improvement efforts. The conceptual framework of this study was Schein's organizational culture theory along with recent findings by Creemers and Kyriakides that show that school culture must be addressed in order for a school to improve. The research design was a single case study. Four different stakeholder groups were interviewed, two school improvement committee meetings were observed, and seven school-improvement related documents were examined. "ATLASti" qualitative analysis software was used following Hatch's typological analysis method. Two major themes, "Teachers versus Technocrats" and "Pre-Fourth Way," revealed the importance of school culture. The recommended project, a Networked Learning Community (NLC), was designed to build a positive culture by promoting collective responsibility, empowering innovation, and building capacity. This study will promote positive social change by demonstrating how school improvement occurs and by providing a research-based plan for a NLC that can help shift the trajectory of the static moderate achievement levels in the case study school and the target school system. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01