A good practice in School Leadership : Portuguese case study

Abstract

The schools’ evaluation regime, comprising self and external evaluation procedures, was put in force in 2002 and justified by the policy makers as a tool for “deepening school autonomy” and “improvement”, gave rise to some “insecurity” and “malaise” within schools. Therefore, hipper-bureaucratization evaluation procedures have been adopted in many schools, which some studies indicate as a tendency and evidence of reduced autonomy.