Trusting Schools and Teachers Developing Educational Professionalism Through SelfEvaluation emerged from a series of studies undertaken with teachers at various stages of their careers exploring the impact of a range of evaluation systems on their personal and professional development. The book begins with a comparative analysis of the rise of school and teacher evaluation charting the trends conceptual and political influences and highlights how the concept of selfevaluation has come for a variety of reasons to play a surprisingly large role in the emerging approaches to school and teacher evaluation. This is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the emerging system of wholeschool evaluation in Ireland.