Keywords
School Organization
Institutional Self Evaluation
Team Learning.
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Abstract
The research presented in this article describes the functioning of ten leadership teams that were engaged in the institutional self evaluation component of the System for Quality Assurance of School Management. Qualitative methods of multiple case studies were used to document how leadership teams described their own work over time. Results showed that the main change observed was that the teams learned how to work together with the rest of the school community. The documented changes, however, did not lead to the adoption of a culture oriented towards evaluation for continuous improvement. The discussion presents a model that describes the various phases of the team´s process and beliefs, as well the factors that facilitated or hindered the self assessment processThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.