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Saudi Ministry of Education General Supervisors’ Attitudes Towards Public School Finance: A Descriptive Study

Mutahhiri, Sultan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1670935709787328

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2022, Doctor of Education, University of Toledo, Educational Administration and Supervision.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) spends almost $50 billion, or 19% of its $254 billion budget, on education, but student achievement is still lagging in most international measures (e.g., TIMSS & PISA) relative to other countries, many of which spend far less than the KSA. These discrepancies between spending and achievement raise concerns about the KSA’s public school finance system and its potential areas of inequity, inefficiency, inadequacy, and unaccountability. In research on public school funding, a few principles of a sound school finance system have emerged, namely the principles of Horizontal Equity, Vertical Equity, Adequacy, and Accountability (Crampton & Whitney & Crampton, 1996). However, most of the research on these principles has been on public school finance systems in various states around the United States, and to a lesser extent on some European and African countries. To date, little research on public school finance on the Saudi education system has been conducted in general, let alone on the principles of a sound school finance system listed above. Thus, the purpose of this study was to address this gap by studying the attitudes of General Supervisors in the Saudi Ministry of Education (MOE) towards the school finance principles of Horizontal Equity, Vertical Equity, Adequacy, and Accountability. Data was collected using a translated and modified version of Park’s (2010) survey, named Attitudes toward Funding Equity in Public Education, in which the principles above were operationalized as four scales with seven items per scale (28 items total). The translated and modified survey was reviewed by experts in educational finance (n = 2) and instrument design (n = 1) in both English and Arabic and was distributed to participants electronically as a Qualtrics survey via email. A Classical Test Theory (CTT) approach was used to assess the measurement aspects of the data. The data was analyzed using descriptive and scores among each scale were examined using Pearson correlations. The CTT analysis identified four likely invalid sets of responses, which were eliminated from the 65 responses received, resulting in 61 responses that were used for data analyses. Additionally, one of the items of the survey, in the Horizontal Equity Scale, was eliminated due to its negative influence on the reliability of the data from one of the scales. The results showed that, overall, the General Supervisors of the Saudi MOE tended to give higher scores (more agreement) on each of the four scales. However, a potential ceiling affect was identified, which indicated that each scale may not have been gathering true maximums. Additionally, the results show that all the responses to the scales were positively correlated with each other (r = .249 to .504), although Horizontal and Vertical Equity had the lowest correlation all other scale scores (r = .174). The strongest correlation was between scores on the Adequacy and Vertical Equity scales (r = .504). Further implications and recommendations are discussed in the dissertation.
Randall Vesely, Ph.D (Committee Chair)
Nancy Staub, Ed.D (Committee Member)
Michael Toland, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Edward Janak, Ph.D (Committee Member)
103 p.
Education; Education Finance; Education Policy
Educational administration and Supervision; School finance; equity; adequacy; accountability; horizontal equity; vertical equity.

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  • Mutahhiri, S. (2022). Saudi Ministry of Education General Supervisors’ Attitudes Towards Public School Finance: A Descriptive Study [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1670935709787328

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mutahhiri, Sultan. Saudi Ministry of Education General Supervisors’ Attitudes Towards Public School Finance: A Descriptive Study. 2022. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1670935709787328.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mutahhiri, Sultan. "Saudi Ministry of Education General Supervisors’ Attitudes Towards Public School Finance: A Descriptive Study." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1670935709787328

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