The impact of selected external sources of feedback on activities of school principals

This bachelor's thesis is aimed to learn how particular external sources of feedback affect the work of a headmaster in particular schools of the Liberec Region. We paid attention primarily to the external sources of feedback that may affect educational process. So we paid the most attention not only to the external sources providing external evaluation, such as the Czech School Inspectorate, school authorities, but also to sources providing information from national and international examinations in the measurement of students' education outcomes, or external sources providing results of unified entrance exams and school leaving exams. Research investigation had the character of qualitative research the main method of which was an interview which was subsequently transcribed into protocols and which was further analyzed, interpreted, and evaluated. The total of five school principals from the Liberec Region were addressed of whom two school principals were from public schools, two school principals from private schools and one school principal from a religious school. The practical part focuses on the analysis and interpretation of data from the research investigation, learns how the school principals are affected by particular external sources of feedback, how they experience them and which..