Identify Effective Factors in the Ranking System of Second Round High Schools; and Design a Model for It

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the ranking of the middle school and design a model for it. The present study applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of method. The research community in the qualitative section included 12 specialists in the field of educational administration who selected in a purposeful manner. In the quantitative section, there were 406 secondary school principals in Tehran. The sample size was 198 people based on the Cochran's formula, which selected by multistage clustering method. To conduct the research, first, by studying the theoretical foundations and interviewing the experts, the effective factors and components in the ranking system of secondary schools were identified. The questionnaire was designed using the extracted components. In order to analyze the data in the qualitative section, the interviews coded and analyzed using NVivo qualitative software and in the quantitative section, confirmatory factor analysis was performed with SPSS software. The results showed that the factors influencing the school ranking system included eight components: "educational affairs" in the first place, "educational affairs" in the second place, "professional affairs" in the third place, "service affairs" in the fourth place, "leadership affairs". In the fifth place, "evaluation affairs" are in the sixth place, "research affairs" are in the seventh place and "capital affairs" are in the eighth place, which in the school ranking system explains 69.143% of the variance. Finally, based on the "identified" factors, the final research model has been developed using confirmatory factor analysis.