Self-Evaluation in the Global Classroom

Self-evaluation is going global. This book describes what happened when teams of school students from across the world embarked on the trip of a lifetime to explore the school lives of their international contemporaries.
The students involved in "The Learning "School project used a variety of tools to evaluate the learning, motivation and self-evaluation abilities of school students in the UK, Sweden, Japan, Germany, the Czech Republic, South Africa and South Korea. From the easy freedom of the Swedish school to the highly structured day in the Czech Republic, this study shows that success and effectiveness in education really is in the eye of the beholder.
The results of this study have significant implications for school leaders and managers, policy makers and academics, and all those concerned with school improvement. This lively and accessible book makes intriguing and important reading, raising fundamental questions about how we judge quality and effectiveness in teaching and learning.

Part I: The Learning School 1. The Story Begins 2. What we Did 3. Tools for Schools 4. A Lifetime of Learning (in One Year) 5. The Impact on the Schools 6. Expert Witnesses Part II: Insights into School Experience from the Learning School Students 7. A Place Called School 8. The School Day 9. Layouts for Learning 10. Subjects, Subjects, Subjects 11. Lessons, Lessons, Lessons 12. Who do you Learn Most from? 13. Who Likes School? 14. Two Classess Compared 15. It all Depends on your Point of View 16. A Life in the Day of Three Students 17. No Two the Same: How Students React Differently to the Same Lessons 18. Talking about Learning: Students as Self-evaluators 19. Learning Out of School 20. Students and their Parents 21. Lifelong Learning - How Teachers and Students Saw it

John MacBeath is a Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.