Abstract：
Self evaluation is considered a part of school management and plays a crucial role in increasing and assuring the quality of schools. Nevertheless, empirical research on implementing self evaluation in school management is currently lacking. There fore, this study examined the current situation of self evaluation and room for improvement by adopting document analysis. This study analyzed the school evaluation reports of elementary and junior high schools in a sampled city. Particularly, documents wh ose evaluation dimensions and items were consistent with the idea of self evaluation were analyzed. The findings are outlined as follows: (a) Some schools can design approaches for self evaluation in their school development plans. In addition, they use sc hool meetings and forms in their self evaluation. Improvement should be made on developing concrete and holistic self evaluation plans. (b) Schools can collect and analyze data through meetings, informal interviews, and observations. In addition, some of t hem establish a data management system. Further improvement should be made on enhancing the level of implementation. (c) Most schools can use self evaluation results for improvement. They should clearly understand, apply, and respond to self evaluation res ults. On the basis of the findings, suggestions for enhancing the practice of self evaluation are provided in this paper paper.

Keywords： self-evaluation, school evaluation, school management, elementary and junior high schools