School case studies: Stories of self-evaluation

The paper concentrates on self-evaluation as a strategy aff ecting the quality of education and supporting the development of schools from within. The paper presents the methodology of 30 case studies from Czech schools that demonstrate the course of school self-evaluation and its context. The analysis of study outputs/school stories allow to draw conclusions about the character of self-evaluation processes in terms of the change process. It shows that self-evaluation has gradually and slowly become a part of work of Czech schools. The conclusion draws the attention to the benefits of the selected research design for multi-case study methodology.