IMPROVING EDUCATION QUALITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN INDONESIA: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

Abstract

This study aims to determine the planning, implementation, and evaluation processes in improving the quality of education in the Inclusive Elementary School in Bantul Regency. Data collection techniques are through interviews, observation, and study documentation. Subjects were principals, vice-principals, teachers, and the committee chairperson in Elementary Inclusion in the Regional District Bantul. The results showed that: (1) program planning was based on the school’s vision, mission, and goals. Each school component compiles work programs by revising last year and verified by the school principal. The substance leads to efforts to improve the quality of education. However, it does not cover detailed results targets, (2) the implementation of the program is managed by each school component, by preparing written implementation instructions such as 2013 curriculum document, organizational structure, division of teacher and education staff assignments, regulations academic, and school rules, (3) program evaluation is more focused on academic programs than on the effectiveness and efficiency of learning and teacher performance, carrying out the Self- Inclusion Elementary School Evaluation in the District of Bantul and school accreditation. The evaluation results of the program's implementation made a report consisting of technical and financial reports to local governments.