Comparison of Primary School Evaluation Systems

School evaluation is among the significant agenda topics of many countries in the globalizing world. Despite the efforts and progress, this issue has not yet been resolved in Turkey. School evaluation is expressed as the systematic analysis of the performance of a school in terms of macro and micro variables, according to criteria within an evaluation framework determined by national and/or international education stakeholders. The main purpose of this study is to examine the school evaluation models in the context of primary education in three different countries in a comparative way, focusing on their commonalities and differences. This study was designed with a case study which is one of the qualitative research methods. The research was conducted with a multiple case study design. As a result of the research, the common and different aspects of the three countries’ primary school evaluations were compared.