The standards and methods of school effectiveness evaluation have close relationship with the understanding of school effectiveness and its evaluation.

Research on school effectiveness evaluation has always been a hot issue study in the area of school management since the latter part of the twentith century, which reflects the trend of research transformation from teaching and curriculum to the whole school activities.

At present, central problems displayed in researches of this area are as follows:different types of evaluation are usually confusedly used; teacher effectiveness evaluation is also at the dominant status; construction of evaluation content is ambiguous; the theoretical foundation of evaluation is insufficient; overly pay attention to students learning results, and so on.