Evaluation-Oriented School Development

[[abstract]]The area of school effectiveness and improvement has been booming for several decades and great volumes of studies have been accumulated. However, the measurement of the effectiveness of school improvements is a hardly touched issue. Under the shift of evaluation paradigm, the functions of individual empowerment and organization development are emphasized nowadays. It prompts the integration of evaluation and school improvement. It will be an academic topic worth investigation and will be a significant initiative in the school field. The present project, with the aforementioned intention, aims to use three years to embark the approach of evaluation-oriented school development in four junior high schools, two each in Taipei and Taoyuan County. It is hoped that the project will develop a model for the future use to enlarge the implementation scale.