Workable Compromise or Pointless Exercise?:School-based Evaluation in the Irish Context

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 564-582

  Mcnamara, Gerry ^a   O’hara, Joe ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

accountability; evaluation methods; inspection; school evaluation; school based evaluation; teacher evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996259850     PISSN: 17411432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741143206068218     Document Type: Article

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