There is increasing interest in measuring management in schools. This paper discusses a popular measurement tool: the World Management Survey (WMS) for schools. Drawing on WMS data, secondary sources, and the recent literature on school management, we take stock of the WMS and make recommendations for its use in future research and policy. We conclude that the WMS remains a highly useful tool for its stated purpose—the standardized measurement of (a subset of) management practices within schools—and make two sets of recommendations. First, we encourage those seeking to benchmark management practices in schools to take a systems perspective by extending the WMS approach upwards into the education bureaucracy. Second, when measuring practices within schools, we recommend that researchers consider: how best to assess alignment across practices in the operations domain; the challenge of measuring student learning for monitoring and target-setting; and the context specificity of people management.

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教育系统管理

人们对衡量学校管理的兴趣越来越大。本文讨论了一种流行的测量工具：学校的世界管理调查 (WMS)。利用 WMS 数据、二手资料和最近关于学校管理的文献，我们对 WMS 进行评估，并就其在未来研究和政策中的使用提出建议。我们得出结论，WMS 仍然是一个非常有用的工具，用于其既定目的——对学校内管理实践（一部分）的标准化测量——并提出两组建议。首先，我们鼓励那些寻求对学校管理实践进行基准测试的人通过将 WMS 方法向上扩展到教育官僚机构来采取系统视角。其次，在衡量学校内的实践时，我们建议研究人员考虑：如何最好地评估运营领域中各个实践的一致性；衡量学生学习以监测和设定目标的挑战；以及人员管理的上下文特殊性。