Date of Award
1-1-1992
Document Type
Dissertation - NSU Access Only
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Child and Youth Care Administration
Advisor
David Flight
Keywords
Academic Administration, Curriculum, Evaluation Research, Accreditation, Private, Elementary Secondary, Kindergarten, Parochial, Communitee, Program Development, Development Studies, Administrators, Principals, Teachers, Students
Abstract
This report describes the process by which unaccredited Christian schools may use the accreditation manual and collateral manuals developed during the project to achieve accreditation. Areas of need which were addressed include staff qualifications, the physical facility, documentation of curriculum, goals, aims, and objectives, analysis of standardized achievement tests, disciplinary development of the manuals themselves. policies, and themselves The products provide specific guidelines for Christian school ministries to use in establishing a self-study process, a step-by-step means for preparing for candidacy, and agendas for the original accreditation visits by team members. Actual first-time accreditations and re-evaluations were conducted to show the significant benefit of the new accreditation manual and supplementary manuals employed by the individual schools seeking an accredited status Administrators and school heads were surveyed to determine their highest educational degree attainments, the size of their schools, the program offerings, and their responses to the accreditation manual and collateral manuals. To verify the effectiveness of the accreditation manual, the author conducted training sessions for site-visit committee chairmen conducting school evaluations. In addition, seminars were held for administrators to review the criteria and time frames for evaluation, and guidelines for preparation of necessary materials to overcome any difficulties with the format of the evaluation process. In the course of this research intervention, all schools followed the same procedure in preparing for the evaluative process and each evaluation was chaired by the author of this report. The use of the accreditation manual enabled 20 schools to undergo original or re-evaluation and li to attain candidacy for accredited status. All schools met or exceeded the requirements specified in the manuals in staff qualifications and certification procedures.