[[alternative]]Study on school-based management in comprehensive high schools

[[abstract]]The study aims at understanding the current situation and future ideal model of how school-based management works in comprehensive school in this country. Besides, based on the results of this study, suggestions will be proposed for the implementation of school-based management in comprehensive school. The objects of this study are the high schools and vocational high schools that have ever reorganized to be comprehensive school from the academic year of 1996 to 2001 in this country. There are twenty-one schools in total. Questionnaires of 414 copies are dispatched and 326 copies are returned. The effective samples acquired are 315 copies. The data is analyzed through statistical packing software “SPSS for Windows.” From the data of literature review and of questionnaire, the conclusion obtained are as followed: 1. School-based management is one of educational reform strategy. 2. The school-based management is a process without any rule. 3. The current comprehensive high schools in this country have the conditions to adopt the systems of school-based management. 4. The current comprehensive high schools in this country do not implement school-based management actively. 5. The current comprehensive high schools in this country are still influenced by traditional hierarchical and the theory of binary system. 6. The implementation of school-based management in comprehensive high schools in this country is still restricted by the related rules and regulations. 7. There are still a lot of obstacles in implementing school-based management in comprehensive high schools in this country. 8. There is a considerate gap between the reality and ideal in authority structure in the current comprehensive high schools. 9. It is necessary to examine the organization and size of school faculty in comprehensive high schools in this country. 10. The faculty of different positions in school have different opinions on decision-making authority structure of school.