In the highly competitive education market, brand management has become the important operating strategy of schools. The purpose of this study is to compile indicators of brand management for vocational high schools. Based on the model of brand management and combined with literatures of school brand management model, indicators with a four-dimension (APME mode for short) framework was formed, including current status, brand projecting, brand marketing and brand equity. Semi-structured interviews were used to interview stakeholders and expert content validity to help construct indicators. Nine hundred and ninety-two educators, students and parents from 156 schools were selected with stratified random sampling to conduct empirical survey, and 664 effective questionnaires were retrieved. The indicators constructed finally contain 4 dimensions, 13 phases and 58 items. There exists a significant influence between each dimension. In general, the indicators have good reliability and validity, their structural pattern has a good goodness of fits. |