A Delphi-Based Study About School Efficiency During an Earthquake Crisis

due to the importance of the role of schools in responding to post-crisis problems and their important roles in the life of children and given the recent earthquake in Kermanshah Province, a study was conducted to identify the indicators of an efficient school.

this research uses a qualitative method. It was performed in Classic Delphi and phenomenological phases. The research population consisted of all workers and experts working in the field of education in Sarpol-e Zahab City, Iran who worked from 2017 to 2019 in the city. In the first phase, which was a phenomenological study, 15 of the efficient workers of the city’s education field were chosen with purposive sampling. Also, in the second phase of the study, the sample consisted of 11 of the experts of the education field of Sarpol-e Zahab who worked in the city from 217 to 2019 who both witnessed the earthquake and are deemed to be experts by the region’s education workers.

after documenting the interviews, 290 codes were conceptualized. Next, the codes were categorized into the four general indices of (students, school teacher, and staff, school facilities and structure, environment, and family). Next, based on the codes extracted from phase one, an 82-question questionnaire was designed for the second research phase (Delphi Study). Ultimately, after three rounds of responding, 23 questions were removed and the panel group agreed on 59 questions.

the conclusion is that an efficient school is one that can consider the four dimensions of students, school teachers and staff, school facilities and structure, environment and family to design and plan the school’s structure.