Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation.
Strategic planning and strategic school plans are considered relevant tools for school improvement. This study aimed to identify quality indicators for school plans and test usage in the Portuguese context. A grid with quality indicators for schools' plans analysis was designed (e.g. preliminar...
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| author | Marisa Carvalho Ilídia Cabral José Verdasca José Matias Alves |
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| description | Strategic planning and strategic school plans are considered relevant tools for school improvement. This study aimed to identify quality indicators for school plans and test usage in the Portuguese context. A grid with quality indicators for schools' plans analysis was designed (e.g. preliminary content analysis of the plans of Portuguese schools, national guidelines, and educational literature). Nine quality indicators guided the content analyses of 663 strategic action plans of Portuguese schools. Results indicated that plans lack relevant quality dimensions being more a description or a list of actions than a document that supports the strategic action of a given school. These results can derive implications for policies, practice, and research related to school improvement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0e00fd0128c546808b3338bc6b659ced2023-02-15T16:21:53ZengJournal of Social Studies Education ResearchJournal of Social Studies Education Research1309-91082022-03-01131143163553Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation.Marisa Carvalho0Ilídia Cabral1José Verdasca2José Matias Alves3Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Research Centre for Human Development, PortugalUniversidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Research Centre for Human Development, PortugalUniversidade de Évora, Research Center of Education and Psychology, PortugalUniversidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Research Centre for Human Development, PortugalStrategic planning and strategic school plans are considered relevant tools for school improvement. This study aimed to identify quality indicators for school plans and test usage in the Portuguese context. A grid with quality indicators for schools' plans analysis was designed (e.g. preliminary content analysis of the plans of Portuguese schools, national guidelines, and educational literature). Nine quality indicators guided the content analyses of 663 strategic action plans of Portuguese schools. Results indicated that plans lack relevant quality dimensions being more a description or a list of actions than a document that supports the strategic action of a given school. These results can derive implications for policies, practice, and research related to school improvement.https://jsser.org/index.php/jsser/article/view/3910school improvementstrategic planningquality indicatorsqualitative study |
| spellingShingle | Marisa Carvalho Ilídia Cabral José Verdasca José Matias Alves Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation. Journal of Social Studies Education Research school improvement strategic planning quality indicators qualitative study |
| title | Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation. |
| title_full | Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation. |
| title_fullStr | Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation. |
| title_short | Strategic action plans for school improvement: An exploratory study about quality indicators for schools’ plan evaluation. |
| title_sort | strategic action plans for school improvement an exploratory study about quality indicators for schools plan evaluation |
| topic | school improvement strategic planning quality indicators qualitative study |
| url | https://jsser.org/index.php/jsser/article/view/3910 |
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