SPECIFIC ELEMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL ROMANIAN SCHOOL
SPECIFIC ELEMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL ROMANIAN SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: Identifying successful schools is a challenge because relativity characteristics on which the school was defined as one in this category. Our research aims to identify traits generally accepted by experts in the quality of education that characterize a successful school. So were surveyed 1387 specialists working in the quality of education (700 trainers counselors and external evaluators, experts in quality, evaluation and accreditation, 687 inspectors responsible for monitoring and quality control), were held interviews with nine directors (five from "successful schools" and 4 schools considered less successful) and focus groups with teachers from selected schools. The conclusions are meant to stabilize the characteristics of successful school, so there is a common language in judging and assessing school success. At Romanian school system is well known that a school can be evaluated from different perspectives, so the stakeholders can choose according to all these. But, all the time, the conclusion "successful school" or "less successful school" is a label unexplained. At the level of school marketing, this label is more important, no matter for what reason. That' s why, from our perspective it is more important to have the same point of reference according to which a school can be labeled as "successful" or " less unsuccessful”. Also, our research tried to involve the expert on quality of education, human resources that know all the school and had evaluated according to national indicators the schools from Romania. Many questions were raised like what characteristics define the success? Who are more or less important? From what perspective is important to judge a school?

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