Self perception or self deception? The use of self evaluation instruments in organisational settings.

This research project investigates whether the instruments schools use during self evaluation result in a valid and reliable picture of the school. The extent to which self reporting scores based on self evaluation instruments are influenced by reliability-threatening features of the respondent, the instrument and the context in which the instrument is used is studied. Therefore the following research methods are applied: study of literature, review-study, secondary data analyses, mixed-method research and a survey.

Keywords:RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, SCHOOL SELF EVALUATION, SELF-EVALUATION

Disciplines:Psychological methods, Mathematical and quantitative methods, Education curriculum, Education systems, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Specialist studies in education, Other pedagogical and educational sciences, Social theory and sociological methods