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AN EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGIES AND FINANCE ADEQUACY: CASE STUDIES OF AMERICAN SAMOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS
by
Akenese Epifania Nikolao-Mutini
_______________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
December 2012
Copyright 2012 Akenese Epifania Nikolao-Mutini
Object Description
| Title | An examination of resource allocation strategies and finance adequacy: case studies of American Samoa Department of Education secondary schools |
| Author | Nikolao-Mutini, Akenese Epifania |
| Author email | anikolaomutini@gmail.com;anikolaomutini@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-09-14 |
| Date submitted | 2012-10-03 |
| Date approved | 2012-10-03 |
| Restricted until | 2012-10-03 |
| Date published | 2012-10-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Brewer, Dominic Sundt, Melora |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study was to analyze American Samoa Department of Education (ASDE) and collect allocation of resources data and determine how the resources are used to increase student performance among a purposeful sample of three public high schools with similar demographics, challenges, fiscal constraints and funding sources located in the territory of American Samoa. Sample schools were non-charter, Title I, public schools with student populations of 95%-100% Samoan, 95%-100% English Language Learners, 100% eligible for Free and Reduced Lunch per USDA, 100% socioeconomically disadvantaged and produced similar assessment scores on the local SBA. ❧ The case studies collected data from school and government documents, performance assessment data of ASDE Standards Based Assessments (SBA) scores for the sample schools, and information from interviews to analyze the practice of resource allocation and implemented strategies to increase student performance at the school site level as well as compare it with the frameworks of the Evidence-Based Models (EBM) of resource allocation (Odden & Picus, 2008) and Odden's (2010) Strategies for Doubling Student Performance. ❧ The findings found ASDE: spent far below the national average for per-pupil expenditure; implemented strategies of the EBM resource allocation and Odden's (2010) strategies to double student performance at lower levels than ideal; and lacked adequate funding practices of resource allocation to improve student performance and double student achievement. |
| Keyword | resource allocation; finance adequacy; American Samoa; American Samoa Department of Education; secondary schools; evidence-based model strategies; student performance; double student performance; EBM; Samoan |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Nikolao-Mutini, Akenese Epifania |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-NikolaoMut-1221.pdf |
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| Full text | AN EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGIES AND FINANCE ADEQUACY: CASE STUDIES OF AMERICAN SAMOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS by Akenese Epifania Nikolao-Mutini _______________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2012 Copyright 2012 Akenese Epifania Nikolao-Mutini |
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