Assessment of the schools: image management for legitimation

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Helena de Fátima Gonçalves de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Alves, José Matias
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2013.3389

The purpose of this article is to convey the main results of the multi case study entitled “Evaluation of schools: from the ritual of legitimacy and impression management”, developed under the PhD in Educational Sciences from the Catholic University. The research aimed to identify the impacts of the external evaluation and self-evaluation of schools in order to improve them. Were chosen three very different schools despite their geographical proximity, particularly with regard to the existence of self-assessment teams and the experience of self-assessment and self-regulation. Research results indicate that the impacts produced by the external evaluation and self-evaluation by fall in formal organizational functioning, giving expression to goals that do not refer, first, to the improvement of schools, but the need to legitimize the status quo. Whether external evaluation or self-assessment occurred in these schools were interpreted and experienced by institutional actors interviewed as opportunities for image management school in the face of internal and external pressures that schools are continually target.