An assessment of institutional functioning in ten schools in Iloilo City after a period of seventeen years

Abstract

This descriptive research assessed institutional functioning in ten selected schools of higher learning in Iloilo City after a period of seventeen years (1973-1990) in ten dimensions - democratic administration, autonomy and institutional freedom, morals, improvement of instruction, co-curricular stimulation, research and development, self-study and planning, innovation and change local needs, and improvement of society. It also ascertained the factors that might have brought about changes in a sample school.

Respondents were 184 full-time teachers in the ten selected schools who had at least one year of service prior to the administration of the questionnaire.

The basic data-gathering instrument was the School Functioning Assessment Inventory (SFAI) which Macario Ruiz had administered in 1973. Other sources of the data were interviews with persons connected with a sample school.