| dc.description.abstract | Educational management is some kind of
complex human enterprise in order to achieve and to
accomplish the expected goals by bringing different
resources together. School management, as a fundamental
of educational management, consists number of principles
relating to the technique of classroom procedure and the
practice of successful teachers. Hence most of the developed
countries tend to use concept called “Clustering schools”. In
Sri Lanka, government schools are classified into four types
namely type 1AB, type 1C, type 2 and type 3 based on
streams of advanced classes and not based on the academic
performance of students. This study is based on the
students’ performance using Grade-v scholarship
examination results in year 2013 and 2014. This proposed
classification method can be used to find out best schools,
lower performance schools as well as moderate schools in
the particular area. By identifying school performance, it
may be helpful to authorized people in education in order to
introduce new methods to improve the academic
performance of schools. Therefore they can manage and
update proper educational system for upcoming years.
Schools in Gampaha district were selected as a sample which
contains four zones namely Minuwangoda, Kelaniya,
Gampaha and Negombo. Cluster analysis was carried out in
each zone separately under criteria namely boys/mixed
schools, girls/mixed schools and mixed schools. The
application of hierarchical method (wards method, single
linkage, average linkage and complete linkage) was used for
clustering and three clusters were defined in each method.
According to the result, same set of schools in Gampaha,
Kelaniya, Negombo and Minuwangoda zone were identified
as best schools and low performance schools in both years.
However, some of the schools that belong to the Moderate
group were moved to the Best and Low performance groups
in two years. | en_US |
