ABSTRACT

Policy makers, school practitioners, and scholars around the world have been searching for better school improvement models. The purpose of this study was to understand how an instrument we developed, Orientation to School Renewal, can be used to predict school-level academic achievement. We used the instrument to predict the academic performance of 83 schools as measured by the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) and the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) for mathematics and language. We found our instrument was more sensitive to M-STEP. We found that school renewal efforts were able to predict school academic performance with M-STEP in both mathematics and language. The three leading dimensions for predicting achievement on M-STEP were (a) focus on students and their achievement, (b) internal responsibility, and (c) continuous improvement. The renewal model provides a new perspective on school improvement, and future studies in other countries and international settings are recommended.

摘要

世界各地的决策者，学校从业人员和学者一直在寻找更好的学校改善模式。这项研究的目的是了解我们开发的一种工具，即“面向学校更新”，可以用来预测学校水平的学业成绩。我们使用该工具预测了密歇根州学生的教育进步测验（M-STEP）和学业成绩测验（SAT）所测算的83所学校的数学和语言学习成绩。我们发现我们的仪器对M-STEP更敏感。我们发现，在M-STEP的数学和语言方面，学校的更新工作能够预测学校的学习成绩。预测M-STEP成绩的三个主要方面是（a）关注学生及其成就，（b）内部责任，（c）持续改进。更新模型为学校的改善提供了新的视角，建议在其他国家和国际环境中进行未来的研究。