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Evaluation

The continuous process of the evolving pedagogical practice and the accompanying development of the “operational manual” (including the School for Life specific curriculum) will be progressively evaluated in a formal way. The project will apply methods which are known in social sciences as “pragmatic evaluation”. This approach is specifically applied to evaluate complex social systems and with the goal of improving the understanding of this system. The in-between evaluation results are fed back to the project and thus can contribute to improve the quality and performance of the project in a continuous way.



The group of (project) developers continuously supports the (School for Life) teachers, takes initiatives and facilities problem solving, but is independent of the faculty staff.

From time to time – usually twice per year – an independent (business) consultant will implement an external evaluation. The report of the independent consultant will contain at its core a qualitative and numerical assessment of the key performance indicators as described above.

The results of the development and evaluation process, namely the progressively growing “operational manual” (with its core part, the School for Life curriculum), will be uploaded onto the School for Life website in the form of modules, and partner schools will have access via the internet to these modules. The hopefully growing net of partner schools will be able to exchange topic-related modules with experience from different locations (and countries), which will undergo a process of quality improvement and which will take into consideration the different cultural contexts.