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List of contents
Chapter 1 Why Evaluate Schools?; Chapter 2 Internal and External Evaluation – Two Sides of a Coin; Chapter 3 Evaluating Teaching; Chapter 4 Evaluating Learning; Chapter 5 Evaluating Ethos and Culture; Chapter 6 Benchmarking; Chapter 7 Preparing for Inspection; Chapter 8 Evaluating Leadership;
About the author
John MacBeath O.B.E. is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Schools Must Speak for Themselves (Routledge, 1999) and numerous books on self-evaluation and school improvement.
Archie McGlynn was formerly HMCI in the Scottish Executive Education Department, and is currently a Director of the International Network for Educational Improvement and put in place the self-evaluation guidelines, ‘How Good is Our School?’.
Summary
Self-Evaluation: What's in it for Schools? demystifies school self-evaluation. Accessible and packed full of case studies, it tackles the issues that are at the forefront of the national agenda in most countries in Europe.
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'Self evaluation is very readable and packs much into its 150 pages ... The book is very accessible and clearly set out with questions posed throughout to stimulate reflections and discussion. It might be read alone and/or used in collaboration with colleagues as a preparation for external inspection. More usefully in my view it can be used to encourage the notion that continuous self-evaluation makes for a more open and transparent culture, one in which each person is valued for what they contribute.' - Educational Review
'For the practitioner, there are numerous helpful, ready-to-use examples of self-evaluation instruments ... that could be used in school and classroom contexts ... Overall this is a valuable discussion of the how and why of school self-evaluation and there is no doubt that teachers, headteachers and others would benefit from extracting practical instruments and ideas from the various chapters of this book.' - Educational Research
