Model Development for Effective Management to Impart Quality Education at Secondary Level

Abstract

Education management has been considered as important as improvement of students’ achievements at schools. Education management involves the management of all processes of education and technologies which are used in the process of learning in order to attain educational goals. Effective School management is to ensure smooth school working which ultimately helps students to provide with conducive learning conditions. This study was designed to diagnose issues and flaws in existing educational management models at secondary level, to explore reasons behind these issues and flaws in existing educational management model at secondary level, to develop a new model for educational management to import quality education at secondary level and to find out the effectiveness of developed model for educational management. The study was carried out in two phases. The qualitative  grounded theory research design was used during phase 1.  At first stage of phase one, a five point Likert scale questionnaire along with five open ended questions were sent to 400 head teachers. Among them 320 head teachers gave their response. At  stage II of phase one, a semi structured interview was conducted from the best 45 responded head teachers selected purposely among the 320 respondents to know the best possible solution of the issues and flaws in existing educational management models. Thematic approach was applied for analyzing the qualitative data obtained through semi structured interview of 45 head teachers. During first phase; open coding, axial coding and conditional matrices was applied. In the light of above three data collected documents analysis and critical review of existing management models and different countries’ educational management models. At third stage of phase I, different documents analysis was done for getting further know how of the existing educational management models in Pakistan. Further, critical review of Educational management models of different countries was also done to get firsthand knowledge and analysis the pattern of these countries. On the basis of data collected during three stages and after thorough document analysis a new educational management model was developed to import quality education. This newly developed educational management model was presented to apply in a conveniently selected  model school. In second phase effectiveness of this developed model was observed through a check list and qualitative observation. The findings of phase II showed that this school management model was effective for school heads and educational managers.