Parents - Teachers Association (PTA) Councils: Evaluation of an Experience after Three Years
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Within the administrative organization of the Iranian educational system, the Parents - Teachers Association (PTA) is overseen by the municipal and provincial Parents and Teachers Councils. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of the latter (these councils) in 2008. This study is descriptive and it was undertaken through analysis of documents as well as surveying viewpoints of members of the councils. The utilized documents comprised the acts passed by the councils and the reports read in the councils’ meetings. In the study of documents and for the purpose of sampling, country’s 31 provinces were classified into three categories of privileged, semi-privileged and deprived and in each category, 2 provinces were randomly selected. In the next step, in each selected province one privileged, semi-privileged and deprived city were chosen. Hence, 6 provinces and 18 cities comprised the sample of the study. On the other hand, in the survey of members of the councils the population of the study consisted of 10136 individuals out of whom 753 members were selected. Results of the study revealed that in 2008 PTA councils held 2067 meetings and passed 5549 acts out of which 4139 were implemented. The acts mostly included common topics such as expansion of families training courses, helping students who live in poverty, and visiting high-performing schools. Furthermore, the most significant obstacles to the implementation of the acts were insufficient budget and lack of facilities, lack of executive power, lack of support to the councils, and lack of legal obligation of other organizations for cooperation with the Ministry of Education as well as PTA councils. Fifty percent of the members believed that the councils have achieved their objectives. However, the most unattainable goals included “enhancing parents’ involvement in planning and decision-making in accordance with PTA missions” and “paving the way for monitoring the performance of PTA by parents and teachers”. Councils’ members believed that the most important problems of the councils respectively were “staff shortages for implementation of programs”, “members’ being unfamiliar with rules and regulations”, and “lack of cooperation between parents and schools”.
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Persian
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Journal of Family and Research, Volume:9 Issue: 1, 2012
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123
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