THE ASSESSMENT OF CHARTER SCHOOLS

Abstract

The present research was conducted aiming to assess the performance of five-region charter schools and the Education Department from the viewpoints of principals, teachers, and parents in the academic year 2010-2011, Isfahan province .Accordingly, the performance of the charter school intending to enhance Educational, Training, Administrative, Financial Affairs in addition to parents' and instructors' contentment in terms of 7 questions were studied. The research was of descriptive survey type and statistical universe including the entire principals, teachers and parents in charter schools entering on five- region, Isfahan province. It all covers 36 of principal association, 1553 of teachers, and 1595 of parents. The sample under study was selected employing the simple stratified random and the formula of determination according to the volume from the statistical universe among 208 of the teachers, 305 of the
parents, and whole principals. In order to gather the research data, researchers required the questionnaire from researcher's studies. The questionnaire's formal value and validity were confirmed by related pundits. The perpetuity of questionnaire, the Kronbach alpha coefficient of 98 percent was used. In the research statistical analysis, descriptive statistical methods and standard deviation; we used
inferential statistic uni (t) and double (t) tests. The researches outcome indicated :Results showed that the performance of parents' and teachers' associations intending to enhance educational, training, administrative, financial affairs in addition to parents' and instructors' contentment from the viewpoint of principals, teachers and parents exceed limit .Factors and charter schools' performance were significantly different in principals attitude, and it indicates factors and performances of parents' contentment factor from the viewpoint of principals assigning highest average, factors of instructor's contentment and financial affair assigns the lowest .The average ranking aspect reveals factors and financial affair from the viewpoints of teachers assigning the highest rank and factors and training affair's performance has got the lowest rank. Additionally, from the viewpoint of parents, the factors and performances assign the financial enhancement of administrative tasks from the pupils' viewpoint to its highest rank and factors
and training affairs performance assign the lowest .Eventually, from the viewpoint of teachers and parents according to their sex and grade differs drastically.