School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape

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dc.contributor.advisorBhorat, Haroonen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDurnford, Alice Blakeren_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T12:27:34Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T12:27:34Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
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dc.description.abstractEducation has come to the fore in development policy and as such has sparked a great deal of research on the relative importance of educational inputs. While school resources and family attributes are often the focus of such work, there are a number of papers exploring the significance of the impact of school management on learner test results. However, much of the quantitative research is inconclusive. This is largely due to the non-standardized and subjective measurements of management that have been used. This dissertation proposes the use of the Institutional Analysis and Design framework of Ostrom and colleagues (1990; 1994; 2005; 2009) as a means of benchmarking school management. The core components of the IAD framework are used to create a series of management indices for a sample of schools in the Western Cape. The paper finds, through a series of statistical approaches, that management is a significant input into the school production function and may be more important than other, previously emphasized, inputs.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationDurnford, A. B. (2013). <i>School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5781en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDurnford, Alice Blaker. <i>"School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5781en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDurnford, A. 2013. School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Durnford, Alice Blaker AB - Education has come to the fore in development policy and as such has sparked a great deal of research on the relative importance of educational inputs. While school resources and family attributes are often the focus of such work, there are a number of papers exploring the significance of the impact of school management on learner test results. However, much of the quantitative research is inconclusive. This is largely due to the non-standardized and subjective measurements of management that have been used. This dissertation proposes the use of the Institutional Analysis and Design framework of Ostrom and colleagues (1990; 1994; 2005; 2009) as a means of benchmarking school management. The core components of the IAD framework are used to create a series of management indices for a sample of schools in the Western Cape. The paper finds, through a series of statistical approaches, that management is a significant input into the school production function and may be more important than other, previously emphasized, inputs. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape TI - School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5781 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/5781
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDurnford AB. School management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Cape. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5781en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherApplied Economicsen_ZA
dc.titleSchool management and educational performance an analysis of 14 public schools in the Western Capeen_ZA
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