Abstract: As a significant institutional endeavor in the transformation of talent cultivation paradigms in the new era,comprehensive quality evaluation in China's high schools has,over years of exploration,established a preliminary framework involving multiple stakeholders. However,its practical implementation has exposed persistent challenges,undermining its intended efficacy. This stems from the strategic choices by the key stakeholders—government,schools,families,enterprises,and universities—under bounded rationality during their strategic interactions,trapping the system in a low-efficiency equilibrium. These predicaments arise from goal dissipation under hierarchical transmission,incentive fractures due to selection failures,path lock-in induced by market embedding,and trust crises arising from technological ethics. To address these challenges,it is imperative to follow the guiding principle of “balancing normative order with vitality stimulation” and pursue a threefold path to break through the current impasse:first,constructing a “hierarchical-network” structure that integrates normativity and flexibility to unleash the vitality of diverse actors;second,refining an “incentive-compatible” mechanism by leveraging college admission processes to optimize the closed-loop application of evaluation in talent selection;and third,promoting “technology-for-good” governance through goal alignment and role standardization to mitigate path dependency.

Key words: high school comprehensive quality evaluation, education evaluation reform, strategic interaction, cost-benefit analysis