ABSTRACT
In this chapter school evaluation will be defined, on the basis of an analysis of the evaluation concept and the structural context of the school within educational systems. Since evaluation is closely related to the issue of quality in education and school evaluation approaches are close to all kinds of systems for “quality care” and quality control within organizations, some attention will also be paid to the concept of “quality” of schooling. The chapter sums up to a taxonomy of school evaluation types, in which various methods of school evaluation are related to the specific information providers and the specific audiences of each.
