Qualitative research methods were used in this study because interpretive, naturalistic focus helps to explore and understand the meaning of the improvement process that school leaders bring about. Instrumental case study has adopted to answer my research questions. Two middle schools were chosen as case schools. They participated in a school improvement project initiated by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education. These two case schools were selected from five participated schools in the pilot study. In terms of data collection, interview, participative observation and document analysis were used to collect data. / The purpose of this study is to examine how school leadership facilitates school improvement in middle schools in China. The research addresses the following two main questions: (1) How does school leadership facilitate school improvement? (2) Why do the practices school leaders demonstrate lead to different results? / The study reveals that there is no one-fits-all strategy for schools when they implement the school improvement. Rather, school leadership should develop their own plans for school improvement, and the strategies need to be context-specific. Other important findings also emerge from this study: first, school leadership refers to a leader team. The team has an important role in school improvement; second, school leadership team builds their own capacity in the process of school improvement; third, there are five dimensions of capacity should be considered in school improvement; finally, the development of school-based curriculum is an effective way to building capacity for school improvement. / 梁歆. / Adviser: Hin Wah Wong. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 1865. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-408). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Liang Xin.

梁偉明. / 論文(碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院歷史學部,1995. / 參考文獻: leaves i-ix (5th group) / Liang Weiming. / Chapter 一、 --- 前言 --- p.1-8 / Chapter 二、 --- 政治取向探索期(1946 ´ؤ 1954) --- p.9-32 / Chapter 一一 --- 中文中學復員的困難和分裂 / Chapter 一一 --- 中文中學面對的困難 / Chapter (1) --- 辦學經費 / Chapter (2) --- 師資與敎材 / Chapter (3) --- 學生出路 / Chapter (4) --- 會考課程與辦學方針 / Chapter 一一 --- 小結 / Chapter 三、 --- 經濟需求促變期(1955 ´ؤ 1965) --- p.33 -53 / Chapter 一一 --- 政治民族意識的消磨 / Chapter 一一 --- 中文中學面對的困難 / Chapter (1) --- 學生出路 / Chapter (2) --- 學生流失 / Chapter (3) --- 資金和校舍 / Chapter (4) --- 敎材與課程 / Chapter (5) --- 工業發展對資源分配的壓力 / Chapter (6) --- 香港中文大學的成立 / Chapter 一一 --- 小結 / Chapter 四、 --- 學術目標轉向期（1966-1975 ) --- p.54 -81 / Chapter 一一 --- 中文敎育新路向 / Chapter 一一 --- 中文中學面對的困難 / Chapter (1) --- 學生流失 / Chapter (2) --- 中國語文課程的困局 / Chapter (3) --- 來自政府的壓力 / Chapter (4) --- 中文的地位 / Chapter ´ؤ一 --- 小結 / Chapter 五、 --- 新生角色醞釀期(1976 ´ؤ 1982) --- p.82 ´ؤ107 / Chapter 一一 --- 中文中學面對的困難 / Chapter (1) --- 在學人數縮減 / Chapter (2) --- 僑校意識、政治意識的淡化 / Chapter (3) --- 來自考試的壓力 / Chapter (4) --- 第二次中文運動 / Chapter (5) --- 混亂的語文現象 / Chapter ´ؤ´ؤ --- 新角色的思考 / Chapter ´ؤ´ؤ --- 小結 / Chapter 六、 --- 結論 --- p.108´ؤ118 / 附錄一：中文、中英文中學學校及學生數目一覽表 / 附錄二：國內中學與香港一般中學課程比較表 / 附錄三：1951年頒佈之香港中文中學高中畢業會考中文科課程內容 / 附錄四：〈曾钰成校長訪問稿〉 / 附錄五：1872-1982年創校，現在仍然運作的中文中學一覽表 / 參考書目 / 中文 --- p.i-vi / 英文 --- p.vii-ix

The purpose of this research is three-folded. First, it aims to study the complex and organic interaction of SSE in the school contexts with reference to uniqueness of Policy, Place and People. Second, it intends to provide a new perspective for the theoretical debate between the managerialists and the critical performativists on the perceived effects of SSE on school improvement or managerial control. Third, it aims at providing an answer to the theoretical debate on the implementation approach of SSE from the top-down, bottom-up or hybrid approaches in policy studies. In this regard, this study presents three research questions: 1. From the perspective of teacher administrators and teachers, how was SSE implemented in the three sample schools? 2. From the perspective of teacher administrators and teachers, what were the perceived effects and/or consequences of SSE? 3. Given these implementation experiences and perceptions, how could the implementation of SSE be accounted for from the perspectives of policy implementation within the policy studies in education? This study was qualitative in nature. Only 3 selected secondary schools experiencing a complete cycle of External School Review (ESR) or Quality Assurance Inspection (QAI) and SSE were studied. The use of descriptive and exploratory approach was adopted. Qualitative design of the study provided a platform for closer exploration into their description of implementation process, perceived effects and implementation approaches of SSE. / The research has theoretical implications for the literature of policy implementation, literature of school administration, literature of perceived effects of SSE. Furthermore, this research has policy implications for policy instrumentalisations, policy alienation and instrumental rationalism and policy localisation at schools. Finally, this research ends with practical implications for school administrators. / The study investigates how teacher administrators and teachers in Hong Kong secondary schools experienced the implementation process of School Self-Evaluation (SSE), perceived the effects of SSE and described the implementation approach of SSE from the perspectives of policy implementation within the policy studies in education. Given that this area is under-researched in Hong Kong context, the study aims to add to the knowledge base of implementation process, perceived effects and implementation approach of SSE and inform policy administrators of SSE in the government and the schools. / There were three arguments made in this study. First, it argued that the implementation of SSE was an organic and complex interaction of the Policy to be implemented, Place where the policy embedded, and the People who implemented the policy. Second, this study argued that the debate between the managerialists and critical performativists might not be applicable to the Hong Kong context. Instead, it was found that the implementation situation of the school, the biographical and professional background of teachers in which they grew up and socialised and the position of a teacher shaped the perception lens of teachers, through which they perceived the effects of SSE on school improvement or managerial control. The last contribution of this study was to provide interpretations to account for the implementation of SSE. It was argued that the implementation of SSE was neither accounted by the top-down, bottom-up or hybrid approaches, but the complexity of the implementation context including the Policy to be implemented, the Place and the People who implemented the policy. / Wong, Wai Lun. / Advisers: Wing-kwong Tsang; Leslie Lo. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-02, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ed.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 393-433). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Law Yi-Shu Louise. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-403). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

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李晓蕾. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-255) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Li Xiaolei.