Comprehensive Evaluation of Smart Junior High Schools in Yazd City by SWOT Model

The main purpose of this paper was comprehensive evaluation of smart junior schools by SWOT model. Four schools selected randomly from 125 smart schools in Yazd city. Research method was mixed design. Population consisted from teachers, students, parents, principals & IT experts. Quantitative data gathered by researcher-made questionnaires for teachers, students & parents and analyzed by one sample t-test. As well as, qualitative date gathered by interviews and observational checklist and analyzed descriptively. Quantitative findings showed that teachers assessed strengths and weaknesses as middle level but teachers assessed opportunities significantly less than the average estimate & assessed threatens significantly more than the average. Students assessed strengths significantly less than the average and assessed weaknesses and threatens significantly more than the average but they assessed opportunities as middle level.Parents assessed opportunities and threatens significantly more than the average level. On the other hand, qualitative findings indicated an undesirable situation in human resources and administrative procedures in smart schools, but the situation of hardware equipments was very favorable.