Building an Instrument to Measure the Psychological and Educational Indicators in Private Schools in Nineveh Governorate Center

Abstract

The current research aims at building an instrument to measure the educational indicators at the private schools in Nineveh governorate center. In order to accomplish the objective of the research, the researchers adopted the American experience in preparing the educational indicators in the private schools (the form of quality standards that involved four dimensions, which are: the principal, the teaching staff, students' parents and the researcher) through analyzing the quality indicators of the schools, which are adhered by the Ministry of Education into (110) items. The sample of the study consisted of (92) private primary, intermediate and secondary schools for the academic year (2021-2022). The reliability of the instrument was verified using the face validity and the invariability of the instrument was verified by the retest and conducting the discrimination using the T test. The researchers finally built a tool that consists of (104) items (28 for the school principals, (45) for the teaching staff, (27) for the students' parents and (4) items for the researchers. The value of the study lies in preparing a tool that measures the educational indicators of the private schools. The researchers recommended to use the tool to evaluate the educational indicators in both the private and government schools.