| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺中師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 94 === The research aimed at realizing the current situation and contents of elementary school evaluation in Taichung City, investigating the process, result and practice of elementary school evaluation in Taichung City, analyzing the dilemma, and furthermore providing suggestions for improvement.
The research was mainly conducted through use of questionnaire, with complement of interview. It proceeded from study of related articles. Data were collected from the self-made questionnaire of “A Research on the Practice of Elementary School Evaluation in Taichung City”, and then were analyzed via frequency, percentage and 1-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to find out participants’ opinions and difference on school evaluation. Finally, with complementary data from interview, it probed the hidden questions that couldn’t be revealed from the questionnaire. According to the findings, the research concluded:
(1) Elementary schools’ staff was active to understand the meaning and purpose of school evaluation. (2) Elementary schools’ staff mostly regarded “self-assessment” as importantly. (3) Elementary schools’ staff mostly thought that evaluation should be conducted more than one day. (4) Evaluation commissioners didn’t understand the real situation of elementary school affairs. (5) Elementary schools’ staff mostly agreed that Taichung City School Evaluation Indicators were concrete and complete. (6) The evaluation indicators were made without consideration of the difference between schools. (7) The objectiveness of evaluation result was generally doubted. (8) The result of school evaluation was acceptable to be used as a reference for principal selection, but not as a single criterion. (9) The toughest difficulties in school evaluation practice were found to be time, cost, fairness and objectiveness, and recognition attitude. (10) Opinions about concrete suggestions for school evaluation practice were agreeable.
Finally, suggestions were made as follows:
To teachers: (1) Realize the meaning and purpose of school evaluation. (2) Cooperate with parents. (3) Enhance professional knowledge and skills. (4) Familiarize themselves with the contents of school evaluation indicators. (5) Negotiate an agreement.
To school administration staff: (1) Regard the school evaluation with positive attitude. (2) Establish “self-assessment” mechanism and implement accountability. (3) Lift the efficiency of school affairs. (4) Execute the administrative function normally. (5) Improve file management.
To educational administration of government: (1) Promote the concept of school evaluation. (2) Perform follow-up evaluation. (3) Propose meta-evaluation actively. (4) Reduce the written evaluation items. (5) Designate the evaluation indicators in accordance with school sizes. (6) Integrate other items of visit, assessment and evaluation. (7) Establish a standard procedure of visiting evaluation. (8) Reset the quota of visiting representatives. (9) Reevaluate the effectiveness of evaluation. (10) Reconsider the purpose of evaluation. (11) Reward the evaluation results item by item.
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