School Learning Culture and School Effectiveness of Secondary Schools

Authors: [1] Joyce Mary Claris D’Sa [2] Dr. G. Sheela

Pages: 47-51

Abstract:

The research study was undertaken to investigate the School Learning Culture and School Effectiveness of Secondary Schools. The study was conducted on a sample of 451 students, 120 teachers and 451 parents from secondary schools of Bangalore division. The selection of secondary schools was done on the basis of stratified random sampling method. The Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey (PALS) by Carlo Midgley, MartinL. Maher, Ludmila, Z. Hruda, Eeic Anderman, Lynley Anderman(2000) to assess the School Learning Culture was used. The School Effectiveness Questionnaire (SEQ) (1993) developed by Lee Baldwin, Freeman Coney III, Diane Fridge, Roberta Thomas was used to measure the level of School effectiveness of Secondary Schools. Objectives formulated were: 1. To assess the level of School Learning Culture (SLC) of Secondary Schools. 2. To assess the level of School Effectiveness (SE) of Secondary Schools. 3. To study the significant difference in the School Learning Culture of Government, Private Aided and Private Unaided Secondary Schools. 4. To study the significant difference in the School Effectiveness of Government, Private Aided and Private Unaided Secondary. 5. To study the correlation between School Learning Culture and School effectiveness of Secondary schools. Descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The obtained data was analyzed using ‘t’test, one way ANOVAand Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Findings of the study were: There are no schools with weak school learning culture in Bangalore. There are no schools with low level of School Effectiveness in Bangalore. There is a significant difference in the school effectiveness of Government, Private Aided and Private Unaided Secondary Schools. There is a high positive correlation between School Learning Culture and School Effectiveness