ABSTRACT
This chapter places the evaluation of the health promoting school in a European context. It describes both a formative evaluation project commissioned by the secretariat of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools (ENHPS) and the subsequent development of a multi-dimensional evaluation instrument. This instrument has been used in different European countries as a means of collecting data on schools who are working within national healthy schools or health promoting school schemes and in particular to profile the health promoting school. It has also been used to collect data in a national context on the provision of health promotion in schools. More recent developments include refining the instrument to meet the evaluation needs of national dissemination projects such as the Irish Health Promoting Schools and Social Personal and Health Education Project, the Welsh Network of Healthy Schools schemes, and the English Healthy Schools Standard.
