- Title
- Teacher's and principal's perceptions of the integrated quality management system (IQMS) in three Butterworth District schools
- Creator
- Ntshewula, Nombulelo
- Subject
- Total quality management
- Subject
- Quality assurance -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Teachers -- Training -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Employees -- Rating of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- School principals -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Educational evaluation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Ed
- Identifier
- vital:16197
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007301
- Identifier
- Total quality management
- Identifier
- Quality assurance -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Teachers -- Training -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Employees -- Rating of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- School principals -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Educational evaluation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- The researcher’s interest in this study is in teachers’ perceptions and principals of the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS). This study examines teachers’ understandings of this quality management and performance appraisal system, how teachers perceive the instrument used to manage and monitor their performance and the performance of their schools, and what lessons may be learnt regarding the implementation process of the IQMS. The investigation was carried out in three Butterworth District schools in the Eastern Cape. The researcher made use of qualitative methodology to obtain data from a sample of 3 principals, 9 teachers and 1 district official. Data were collected from these respondents by means of in-depth, semi-structured interviews and through document analysis. The study found that some of the teachers and principals felt that they did not understand the IQMS, and they complained that the system is fraught with many obstacles that need to be addressed in order to promote the effectiveness of teaching and learning. The participants also spoke of multiple factors that contribute negatively to this phenomenon, which include the fact that the teachers’ workload is increased by the IQMS, time constraints, inadequate training, vague and unfamiliar language, the financial incentive that is attached to the instrument, and the many structures in the implementation process. In addition, the system seems to encourage a bureaucratic style of management. Teachers and principals also suggested ways in which the IQMS could be structured by the Department of Education for greater efficiency in education.
- Format
- 127 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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