The empirical research on the impact of decentralized education management system onthe student's math achievement in rural compulsory education in China

Abstract

This paper does an empirical study on the impact of decentralized school management system on the student's math achievement in rural compulsory education with the method of hierarchical linear model and the data of Rural Compulsory Education Survey launched by China's Education Finance Research Institute in 2007.Results show that the decentralized personnel management system has a statistically significant positive effect on the student's math achievement,but the decentralized school finance system has a statistically mixed effect on the student's math achievement.Based on the above conclusion,this paper proposes the following policy recommendations to improve the quality of math teaching in the compulsory education in mid-east china and advance the implementation of the reform of New Mechanism: giving the autonomy of the use of certain expenses and personnel management for teachers to principals in rural primary and secondary schools,and strengthening the monitoring mechanisms for the process of the use of public expenses in schools.