Abstract

MEASURING PERFORMANCE USING EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS

Hasan Abed Almohsen Almousawy, Prof.Abed Alsalam Lafta Saed

Volume: 10 Issue: 3 2020

Abstract:

Education is a tool for change, construction and social development, and is the most successful means of achieving sustainable development and achieving human progress at all levels, and aims to build and prepare future generations to participate in building a future characterized by progress and permanence, thus seeking the Iraqi state to improve the educational sector through the application of modern standards in education. After decentralization became a global phenomenon in more than 80% of the world's countries, the Iraqi state began in 2016 to implement administrative decentralization, and local authorities were granted the powers to manage their affairs, including the administration of their educational institutions in accordance with the principle of administrative decentralization, and after four years of administrative decentralization and transfer of powers between the Iraqi Ministry of Education and local authorities, the study was conducted to measure the performance of educational institutions in order to ascertain whether the policy of decentralization had affected Negatively or positively on educational performance. The research aims to measure educational performance before and after the transfer of powers from the federal government (Iraqi Ministry of Education) to local (provincial) governments using educational indicators. To achieve the objective of the research, educational data were collected and analysed, as well as the measurement and analysis of educational performance indicators during the first two phases of the application of the central system and extended between the academic year (2011-2012) and the academic year (2014-2015), while the second phase, which represents the phase of decentralization between the academic year (2015-2016) and the school year (2018-2019. The research community in all the directorates of education in the provinces of Iraq except the Kurdistan region and the following provinces (Kirkuk, Anbar, Salah al-Din, Ninawah) due to the lack of educational data in the ministry due to the security conditions witnessed, but the sample of the research consisted of eleven provinces, and The researcher calculates the scoring averages and the upper and lower limits of educational indicators in the provinces the field of research during the two periods (central and decentralized) and then comparing them using the ratio of method (Mann-Whitney) to determine the existence of moral differences between performance indicators in the two phases And determine which is better. The research concluded that the transition to a decentralized system and the transfer of powers between the Iraqi Ministry of Education and the provinces had a negative impact on educational performance.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i03.034

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