The Daughters of Charity schools mission statement: An assessment

• Main Author: Nato, Alda A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1992
• Subjects: Educational aims and objectives; Daughters of Charity; Catholic schools; Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1434
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study describes the Daughters of Charity (DC) schools' mission statement and assess the extent of its implementation and understandability. The study made use of the descriptive method of research. It involved the examination and analysis of documents and institutional records. Two instruments were used in this study: The Mission Statement Evaluation Questionnaire (MSEQ) and the Mission Statement Implementation Survey (MSIS). The MSEQ was used to determine the understandability of the mission statement and the degree to which it conforms with the criteria set out for style, namely: brevity and clarity, readability, rationality, legitimacy and institutionality and with the criteria set out for content which are relevance, broadness, specificity, adaptability, verifiability, originality and operationality. Respondents of the MSEQ were 40 school heads and top level administrators. The MSIS was used to determine the extent of implementation of the mission statement through the Instructional Programs, Student Services and Activities, School and Community Relations, Personnel Development and Administrative Operations as perceived by the students, parents, teachers and administrators. The perception of these four groups of respondents served as the gauge in determining the extent of implementation. The data derived from the MSIS was substituted by the qualitative data gathered from the analysis of institutional records and the content analysis of the Mission Statement in which programs and services were identified as indicators. Respondents of the MSIS were composed of 667 students, parents, teachers and administrators. For both instruments, frequency was counted per dimension, per criteria, per item for the MSEQ and per group of respondents, per program and per item for the MSIS and translated into percentage. Based on the findings, the study concluded that the DC schools' Mission Statement meets the standard set out for style and content and that it is implemented through the programs and services considered. T