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Mohamed, Rania Y. (2021) The impact of a quality assurance system on private education in the state of Qatar : perspectives of evaluators and principals. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
The study examines the impact of the applied quality assurance (QA) system on private education in the State of Qatar. To understand the Qatari QA system and its impact on private schools, the study examined the current system’s procedures and practices, the experiences and perceptions of evaluators and school principals as key actors, the school motivational factors in the QA context, and the faced challenges by evaluators and school principals, which supported exploring the system’s needed modifications. The study adopted a sequential exploratory study design that comprised two phases of data collection. The first phase comprised the analysis of 18 documents and semi-structured interviews with five evaluators and one supervisor that provided qualitative data. The analysed documents’ and the semi-structured data were analysed, applying thematic analysis through a manual coding procedure. The second phase included disseminating a questionnaire to all international school principals (n157), to which 52% (n81) responded and provided quantitative and additional qualitative data. The quantitative questionnaire data were analysed through descriptive statistical analysis using the “SurveyMonkey” website’s features. The questionnaire’s qualitative data were aggregated to each open-ended question and aligned with the rest of the study’s analysis findings. Triangulating the qualitative and quantitative findings allowed the study’s problem to be seen from different angles and perspectives, providing complementary and supplementary evidence.
The findings highlighted some discrepancies in theory and practice within QNSA implementation. The process was deemed overwhelming to both evaluators and school principals, with some challenges, revealed some tensions between the practitioners and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The findings also suggest that the Qatari quality assurance system led to school accountability and improvement. This is due to providing feedback to schools about areas that needed improvement, the trustworthy and respectful relationship between evaluators and school principals, the frequent QNSA visits to schools that failed in QNSA, school staff’s diversity, and integrating several accountability approaches in the QNSA system. These findings conclude that although some challenges were found in the implementation of QNSA, the process gauges school accountability and improvement simultaneously, which are the QNSA’s ultimate goals since its initiation. The study makes an original contribution to knowledge as it is the first study to explore the impact of the Qatari QA system on private schools. While most existing research focuses on school inspections in public education, this study sheds light on the private schooling system’s accreditation process in which very little is known. The study makes a theoretical contribution illustrating how the successful combination of accountability and improvement could result from adhering to a QA system’s evaluation principles and integrating accountability approaches. The study conveys practical implications on the mechanisms of external evaluation that could lead to school improvement.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LA History of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Private schools -- Qatar, Private schools -- Qatar -- Evaluation, Private schools -- Qatar -- Standards, Education -- Qatar -- History | ||||
| Official Date: | May 2021 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Centre for Education Studies | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Moorosi, Pontso | ||||
| Sponsors: | Qatar. Wizārat al-Maʻārif | ||||
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| Extent: | xvii, 388 leaves : illustrations | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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