The School Heads; Teachers and Parents Involvement in the Implementation of School-Based Management (SBM); an Assessment

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The achievement of quality education is the ultimate objective of the Department of Education. This entails countless endeavors among the authorities in the department. Some areas of considerations are physical facilities improvement, staff development, student development and curriculum development. To address these concerns effectively, Department of Education needs to decentralize. Thus, School-Based Management is conceptualized and implemented in the system. This means that the authority for significant decision is transferred from state and district offices to individual schools. Consequently, these schools must tap the community to provide the necessities. It is in this juncture that the researcher decided to conduct a study to assess the extent of involvement of school heads, teachers and parents in the implementation of School-Based Management based on their perceptions and find out if this involvement has significant relationship with the status of the school.

METHODS

To answer the posited questions, the researcher used the documentary analysis and descriptive research design. Descriptive research is a purposive process of gathering, analyzing, classifying, and tabulating data about the prevailing conditions, practices, beliefs, processes, trends, and cause and effect relationships and then making adequate and accurate interpretation about such data. Sampling, weighted mean, analysis of variance, regression analysis and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient were used in the analysis and interpretation of data.

RESULTS

The school heads, teachers and parents have varying views on the extent of their involvement in staff development, but they have similar perception on their involvement in curriculum development, student development and physical facilities improvement. The school heads perceived that the extent of involvement of teachers and parents in staff and student development has significant impact on the status of the school’s implementation of SBM. The teachers believe that their involvement in all categories of school development has significant bearing on the status of the schools' implementation of SBM.

DISCUSSIONS

The school heads, teachers, and parents believed that there is a significant relationship between the status of schools and their involvement in the SBM implementation. Therefore, partnership among the schools' stakeholders must be strengthened.