School in a Mirror

The IQAA guideline instrument for internal evaluation of schools is entitled School in a Mirror.

The School in a Mirror is used to guide member schools through the internal self-evaluation with the assistance of an IQAA mentor. The guideline outlines the process in detail, presents the quality targets for teaching and learning, as well as for the management of the school and provides various exemplars and templates to guide evaluation and report writing. 

The School in a Mirror is only available to IQAA member schools and can be found in the section, IQAA Members. All of School in a Mirror, including the opinion surveys, add-on opinion surveys, classroom visit forms and all other exemplars and documents issued by IQAA, is subject to copyright.

We welcome you to the IQAA website. Please take the time to sign in as a member in order to access the full range of opinion surveys, templates for classroom visits, and other material that you will find useful to your quality assurance process, including a checklist of what to do, and the guideline instrument – School in a Mirror.


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About IQAA

  • IQAA is an independent agency available to provide quality assurance of any school through the process it has developed. IQAA’s watchword is Assisting Schools To Keep Growing Quality.

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