Denmark
The website for the Danish Evaluation Institute <http://www.eva.dk/>
Germany
Baden-Württemberg
The website for the Landesinstitut für Erziehung und Unterricht <http://www.leu.bw.schule.de/esq/> The Landesbildungsserver <http://www.schule-bw.de/unterricht/evaluation>
Bayern
The Bayerischer Schulserver <http://www.schule.bayern.de>
The website for the Staatsinstitut für Schulpädagogik und Bildungsforschung <http://www.isb.bayern.de/qa/arbeitsbereiche/evo/evaluation_vor_ort.pdf> Hamburg
The Hamburger Bildungsserver <http://lbs.hh.schule.de/> Nordrhein-Westfalen
Sachsen
The website for the Sächsisches Staatsinstitut für Bildung und Schulentwicklung <http://www.sn.schule.de/> Sachsen-Anhalt
Landesbildungsserver <http://www.bildung-lsa.de/index2.html>
Schleswig-Holstein
The website for the Institut für Qualitätssicherung an Schulen <http://www.iqsh.de/>
Greece
The website for the Centre for Research into Education <http://www.kee.gr/html/> (information in English).
The Pedagogical Institute <www.pi-schools.gr>
Spain
The website for the INECSE (formerly the INCE) – Instituto Nacional de Evaluación y Calidad en el Sistema
Educativo – (National Institute for the Education System Evaluation and Quality)
<http://www.ince.mec.es/> (information in English).
The website for the CSDA – Consell Superior d’Avaluació del Sistema Educatiu (Catalonia) <http://www.gencat.net/ense/csda/> (information in English).
The website for the IVEI/ISEI – Instituto Vasco de Evaluación e Investigación Educativa (Basque country) <http://www.isei-ivei.net/> (information in English).
The website for the Dirección General de Evaluación Educativa y Formación del Profesorado (Andalusia) <http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacionyciencia/dgpee/index_2.asp>
The website for the ICEC – Instituto Canario de Evaluación y Calidad Educativa (The Canary Islands) <http://nti.educa.rcanaria.es/icec/>
The website for the IAQSE – Institut d’Avaluació i Qualitat del Sistema Educatiu de les Illes Balears (The Balearic Islands) <http://weib.caib.es/Documentacio/directori/iaqseib.htm>
The website for the IVECE – Instituto Valenciano de Evaluación y Calidad Educativa (Valencia) <http://www.cult.gva.es/ivece/portada.html>
France
The Ministry of Education website on its educational facilities and provision <www.eduscol.education.fr>
Ireland
The School Development Planning Initiative <http://www.sdpi.ie>
Italy
The website for the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System <www.invalsi.it> The website for the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research <www.indire.it>
The Netherlands
Quality cards: giving information on quality aspects of individual schools <http://www.kwaliteitskaart.nl/kwaliteit2003/>
The Act on the work of the inspectorate
<http://www.onderwijsinspectie.nl/functie_en_taken/WOT_staatsblad.pdf>
Information for school leaders/heads, school boards, parents etc. concerning internal evaluation in primary and secondary education <http://www.kwaliteitsring.nl> for primary and secondary education (informa- tion in English) and <http://www.q5.nl> for secondary education (information in English).
The CITO <www.cito.nl> (information in English).
Austria
The initiative ‘quality in schools’ which supports schools to review, monitor and develop their own quality <www.qis.at> (information in English).
Sweden
The website for the Skolverket/National Agency for Education (NAE) <http://www.skolverket.se> (informa- tion in English).
The SIRIS website <http://siris.skolverket.se/pls/portal30/PORTAL30.siris_frame.siris>
United Kingdom – England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The website for the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), officially the Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England <http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/>
The new framework for inspecting schools, effective from September 2003
<http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=pubs.summary&id=3266> The website for Estyn: Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales <http://www.estyn.gov.uk/>
The website for the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) in Northern Ireland <http://www.deni.gov.uk/inspection_services/index.htm>
United Kingdom – Scotland
The website for HMIE <http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/publication/index.htm> for a new edition of the handbook used by the Scottish inspectors, How good is our school? 2002.
Norway
The Resource Bank <http://ressursbanken.ls.no> The pupil inspectors <http://www.elevinspektorene.no>
Czech Republic
The website for the Czech School Inspection <www.csicr.cz>
Estonia
The website for the Examination and Qualification Centre <http://www.ekk.edu.ee>
Latvia
The website for the State inspectorate <http://www.inspekcija.izm.gov.lv>
Poland
The website for the Central Examination Commission <http://www.cke.edu.pl/>
Slovenia
The website for the Centre for Educational Policy Studies - CEPS <http://ceps.pef.uni-lj.si> (information in English).
Slovakia