Constraints to Senior Management’s Capacity to Implement the Performance Management System in Senior Secondary Schools in Botswana

Bulawa, Philip

doi:10.5539/ies.v6n5p56

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“…This section describes the grounded theory coding process in a study titled: Implementation of the Performance Management System in Senior Secondary Schools: The Perspective of the Senior Management Team (Bulawa, 2011(Bulawa, , 2013. The coding process used in this study is guided by Strauss's and Corbin's (1998) three stage process of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding described earlier.…”

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“…While the order of the coding processes as described by Bulawa (2011Bulawa ( , 2013, are in that order, they are not entirely sequential. For example, in doing the axial coding that constitutes the second phase of the process, the coding that had been done in the first stage was revised on several occasions.…”

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“…As the data coding progressed from one transcript to the next, it became clear that these "microcodes" clustered into broader codes which eventually further aggregated into the stems that appear at the beginning of each complete code. While some of the words or phrases used in the codes of the open coding process are those of the researcher, many of them also come from the participants and are thus 'in-vivo' codes (Bulawa, 2013). ISSN 2327-5499 2014 Reflected in the third column is the text from the transcripts which was 'fragmented' for coding.…”

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“…The fourth column 'comment/memo' is a record of the researcher's reflections of the data. As ideas emerged from the data, the researcher paused and wrote a memo to himself regarding the codes (Bulawa, 2011(Bulawa, , 2013. …”

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Adapting Grounded Theory in Qualitative Research: Reflections from Personal Experience

Bulawa¹

2014

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Grounded theory is one of the methodologies that have been widely used in qualitative research. However, researchers, especially inexperienced ones have not been sure about its use in the process of the data collection and analysis. The uncertainty arises mainly from the differences that have emerged between Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss who previously pioneered grounded theory together. Using the researcher's own PhD study, this paper seeks to show that grounded theory can be adapted to suit studies being undertaken. It demonstrates that there is no one way of undertaking grounded theory studies, and that the initial approach by Glaser and Strauss was never intended to be dogmatic. The paper shows that while there are common elements across most approaches of grounded theory, theorists and users of this approach have applied it differently. Therefore, this suggests that researchers can adopt and adapt the grounded theory approach for their own research.

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Section: Illustration Of the Coding Process Using Adapted Grounded Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Illustration Of the Coding Process Using Adapted Grounded Thmentioning

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Adapting Grounded Theory in Qualitative Research: Reflections from Personal Experience

Bulawa¹

2014

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“…Therefore, all the school heads in this study hold the same qualifications, and it is assumed that, they all have equal chances of making the most of the computer knowledge and skills in any of the primary schools in Botswana. School heads were chosen for this study because of the pivotal role they play in schools, which entails having to take responsibility for in-service training of teachers in their schools (Republic of Botswana, 1994a) and to be in the forefront of the implementation of change in schools (Bulawa, 2013).…”

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Transfer of Computer Knowledge and Skills to the Workplace: The Perspective of Primary School Heads

Bulawa

2016

JSE

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The use of computer technology in schools has become a topical subject of enquiry among researchers globally. As in other countries, the government of Botswana has come up with policy on the use of computer technology in public schools in its effort to improve teaching and learning. For this initiative to be achieved, higher education institutions in the country are expected to provide knowledge and skills to school management teams and members of their teaching staff on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This descriptive and qualitative study sought to find out whether primary school heads are using the computer knowledge and skills they acquired during in-service training at the University of Botswana in their schools. Using purposive sampling, 22 participants out of 26 who had volunteered to participate in the study responded to the questionnaire about the use of computers by school heads in primary schools. The result of the study shows that while school heads are willing to use computers in their schools, they have encountered some challenges, many of which are external and therefore, beyond their control. Further revealed is that there are a few school heads that do not see the use of computers as a priority, in spite of the knowledge and skills they possess. The study recommends further research to find out from regional officers the intervention measures that may be put in place to enable school heads to effectively use computer technology in primary schools.

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Building an Interactive Simulator on a Cloud Computing Platform to Enhance Students' Understanding of Computer Systems

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Yi²,

Lam³

2013

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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Cloud computing technologies have been widely adopted to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of core operations in many enterprises through additional computational resources and/or storage as provided on the underlying cloud platforms. Yet there are relatively few studies on how cloud computing may enhance students' understanding of a specific subject in e-learning systems. In a research project awarded by the Microsoft Research Asia, we successfully developed an interactive simulator aimed to enhance the students' understanding of essential concepts related to computer systems through live animations on a cloud computing platform. Essentially, we propose to integrate the latest technologies of cloud computing and learning objects into an efficient, flexible and interactive simulator to deliver powerful computing services for dynamic simulations of various computer systems specified as "reactive" models of learning objects on the cloud storage. More importantly, through adopting the IEEE learning object metadata standard to represent each key concept/component in different computer systems, our proposed simulator can readily facilitate the sharing and reuse of relevant concepts for future e-learning applications. The system design and prototype implementation of our cloud-based interactive simulator is carefully considered with a thorough evaluation plan to investigate on how learners may benefit from our interactive simulator in various ways. And there are many directions for future extensions.

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Constraints to Senior Management’s Capacity to Implement the Performance Management System in Senior Secondary Schools in Botswana

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Adapting Grounded Theory in Qualitative Research: Reflections from Personal Experience

Adapting Grounded Theory in Qualitative Research: Reflections from Personal Experience

Transfer of Computer Knowledge and Skills to the Workplace: The Perspective of Primary School Heads

Building an Interactive Simulator on a Cloud Computing Platform to Enhance Students' Understanding of Computer Systems

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