Designing a model for improving the management of education quality in Ahvaz schools

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Leila Adabi ¹ , Gholamhossein Barakat ² , Leila Bahmaei ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Educational Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Primary Education, Omidieh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Omidieh, Iran

Received: 2023-09-20 Accepted : 2023-11-01 Published : 2023-12-14

Keywords: Accreditation, Quality of Education, Grounded Theory, secondary schools,

Abstract :

The research about the quality of education in schools is one of the most important issues that, on the one hand, provides appropriate feedback for the analysis of educational issues, basic decisions and strategic planning to the officials and those involved in education. And on the other hand, teachers being aware of the quality of their performance during teaching will be able to modify the educational methods and methods and, as a result, increase the quality of their teaching. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to develop a model for improving the quality of secondary schools in Ahvaz city using the foundation data method.The research method was qualitative and practical in terms of purpose. In the first stage, a qualitative study with a grounded theory approach was conducted with semi-structured interviews with 25 experts in the field under investigation, and in the next stage, in order to validate the obtained model, a questionnaire was given to 18 experts in this field. Also, the validation of the model was done using the content validity method of Lavish. The research tool was also a semi-structured interview, which was validated with face validity and reliability with the method of coefficient of agreement between the coders, and its value was 0.90.The results of the analysis and validation of the model in 5 main dimensions are: causal conditions with 1 main category and validity of 0.94, contextual conditions with 2 main categories and validity of 0.88, intervening conditions with 2 main categories and validity of 85 0.0, strategies with 2 main categories and validity of 0.80 and consequences with 2 main categories and validity of 0.70. The findings of the research have shown that the model of improving the quality of education in Ahvaz schools has a good validity.