School-Based Review: Stressing the Developmental Side of Accreditation. What the U.K.'s Grids Project Shows Us and How Such a Model Can Help Improve Schools.

Wideen, Marvin F.; Hopkins, David

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ERIC Number: EJ409174

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Publication Date: 1989

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School-Based Review: Stressing the Developmental Side of Accreditation. What the U.K.'s Grids Project Shows Us and How Such a Model Can Help Improve Schools.

Wideen, Marvin F.; Hopkins, David

Education Canada, v29 n4 p16-22 Win 1989

Suggests that school-based review (SBR), which links evaluation to school improvement, could make accreditation a more developmental process. Identifies six characteristic aspects of SBR in Europe and North America. Outlines the GRIDS project in England and Wales, which engages schools in problem solving as part of internal school development. (SV)

Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Comparative Education, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, School Based Management, School Involvement, Self Evaluation (Groups)

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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