| 英文摘要 |
In response to the educational reform for global human resource development, Taiwan’s government launched the School Actualization Program (SAP) as a supplementary measure to successfully implement a 12-year basic education system. The purposes of the SAP are to develop school organizational capacities, raise student enrollment in community schools, and narrow the urban–rural gap in educational quality. The SAP was implemented in 2007. Although research has been conducted on the implementation and evaluation of the program, most of the evaluations have focused on specific phases or academic years. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to investigate schools to determine changes in principal leadership, administrative effectiveness, teacher collaborative capacities, and student and parent identification with schools during the three phases of the SAP. Data collected from principals, administrators, teachers, students, and parents were analyzed. Relevant documents obtained from and interviews conducted with staff of 17 SAP schools were also included. The power of organizational collaborative capacities to explain student and parent identification with schools was examined. The results are outlined as follows: (1) The principal’s leadership, administrative effectiveness, and teacher collaborative capacities of the 17 schools increased at first and then decreased slightly; however, student and parent positive identification with schools increased continuously. (2) The 17 schools can be categorized into three clusters according to their overall organizational capacities: increasing school capacity, decreasing school capacity, and fluctuating school capacity. (3) The relationships among principal leadership, administrative effectiveness, teacher collaborative capacities, and student and parent identification with schools ranged from moderate to highly positive. (4) Finally, teacher collaborative capacities were better explained by administrative effectiveness; however, student and parent identification with schools was better explained by principal leadership. This paper discusses the results and provides recommendations for policy design and SAP advancement. |