Factors of school effectiveness

Abstract

The effectiveness of school, as an area of research is known since the sixties. The key aim of researchers is to identify effective school factors and to know what criteria the school should meet in order to be effective. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of Leadership, School Climate, Monitoring and Evaluation of Student Progress, and Parents involvement, to the overall efficiency of primary schools. As to the individual contributions of factors, all four factors are positive predictors of school effectiveness - higher quality leadership, school climate, monitoring and evaluation of progress and involvement of parents mean higher academic performance. School climate proved to be a dimension that most contributes to the efficiency of schools, while the dimensions of monitoring and evaluation of students’ progress in size with the smallest contribution, after assessing all participants.