A number of countries also have arrangements in place which assure active
notification of stakeholders about the outcomes of school inspections and/or the
inspection report. As part of the publication process, school staff, management and
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parents’ associations in Ireland are informed in advance that the report will be
published. In Styria, head teachers have the duty to “demonstrably inform school
partners” (parents, students and teachers) and the school maintaining body (mostly
communities) about the inspection results. Inspectors usually do not check whether or
not the inspection report was on the agenda of the parent–teacher meeting, but,
however, would do so if the problems persisted or the parents complained. The
purpose of requiring schools to actively inform their stakeholders is to motivate
schools to set out how the report will be used in the context of the school’s ongoing
program of planning, improvement and self-evaluation (Styria, Ireland). This
provides a first step in encouraging schools to use the findings of the evaluation for
school improvement.