School Peer Review for Educational Improvement and Accountability: Theory, Practice and Policy Impli

Foreword: School peer review for educational improvement in changing times; Prof. Louise Stoll, UCL Institute of Education

PART 1: Introduction

1. Peer review as a form of internal evaluation and lateral accountability; Dr David Godfrey, UCL Institute of Education

2. Starting the process of challenging and supporting colleagues; Sir George Berwick

3. The Education Development Trust's School Partnership Programme; Maggie Farrar and John Cronin

4. Research-Informed Peer Review; Dr David Godfrey and Karen Spence-Thomas, UCL Institute of Education

PART 2: International Case Studies of Peer Review

5. Australia: Peer reviews as a complement to system reviews: the case of Queensland: Dr. Christine Diamond, Director of Policy & Research School Improvement Unit

6. USA: Peer review in Rhode Island: Practice Based Inquiry; Tom Wilson

7. Advancing Quality Through School Peer Reviews: a Case Study from South Africa; Murray Thomas and Hassiena Marriott

8. Chile: Adopting peer review in Chile. Cultural adaptation, barriers and facilitators; Dr David Godfrey and Carmen Montecinos

9. Bulgaria: Peer Review Network Of Schools - Lessons From Innovative Practice In Bulgaria; Prof. Rossitsa Simeonova and Dr Yonka Parvanova, Sofia University, Bulgaria

10. Wales: Using evidence to inject challenge within a system change strategy: lessons from a small country; Prof. Mel Ainscow and Prof. Mark Hadfield

11. The road to quality. Attitudes to School peer review in the Czech Republic; Prof. Milan Pol and Stanislav Michek

12. Self-policing or self-improving? Peer reviews and school to school networks in the context of high-stakes accountability and local status hierarchies in England; Professor Toby Greany, UCL Institute of Education

13. Case study of a cluster in the National Association of Headteachers' 'Instead' Peer review in England; Dr David Godfrey

PART 3: Conclusions

14. School peer review for lateral accountability and improvement. Challenges and ways forward; Dr David Godfrey