5 Inspection of schools
The Inspectorates of Education in our study use different models and methods for
evaluation of schools to achieve these intended effects. This section first includes a
summary of how they inspect schools, the standards and thresholds they use to
classify schools as failing or performing well, the feedback they provide to schools,
how they report on evaluation findings and the sanctions, rewards and interventions
(consequences) used to motivate schools to improve. In the next section, we describe
how these inspection characteristics are expected to promote intended effects.