Quality School Evaluation by its Founder

The bachelor thesis Evaluation of school quality by its founder determines activities that are implemented at the level of regional education by founders of primary schools, mainly public schools, when assessing the quality of the schools. In the Czech Republic, the main authority for assessing of the quality conditions, progress and results of education is the Czech School Inspectorate. Its national competence is enshrined in Act No. 561/2004 Coll., on pre-primary, primary, secondary, higher vocational and other education. The evaluation criteria for individual grades are approved by the Minister of Education each year. In 2009-2012, a national project called "The Way to Quality" took place. It helped schools to implement internal evaluation - self-evaluation. Recommended criteria for school evaluation for founders were one of the outputs of the project. A research study of the bachelor thesis showed that founders evaluate activities of the headmaster to determine his financial reward or sanction, for example. The evaluation criteria for the headmaster's activities are not publicly accessible, unlike the schools evaluation which must be published in advance as stated in the Education Act. Publicly accessible documents on school evaluation methodology were given by two founders. They are the city..