Developing School Performance Index for Assessing Innovation Capability of School in Quality Improvement

摘要

Measuring the school performance becomes an important issue in education. In line with the increasing demand from stakeholders for better transparency, accountability and excellent services had made it a key component in the planning, development and effective management of school. This paper presents the preliminary results of study on developing School Performance Index (SPI) as a tool for assessing innovation capability of school in quality improvement. Specifically, the purposes of this study are (1) developing instrument for measure of school performance, (2) establishing key performance indicators to asses innovation capability of school in quality improvement. The paper applies a research and development approach to develop the instrument for school performance index. The preliminary result of this study has outlined a simple framework of performance index, which was comprising four main indicators: management and organization, learning and teaching, student support and student performance. Based on the preliminary findings of this study, a conceptual framework of school performance index will be provided in order to collect, analyze measure and define innovation capability of school in quality improvement. In addition, a description of the scorecard of school performance index is also covered in the framework.