This presentation aims to characterize, generally, a four-year cycle initiated under the auspices of a new direction of a grouping of schools and the action on the ground of a group (innovation and quality observatory), composed of elements of the educational community.

 As we can see, monitoring activities have been increasing year after year, and in the last year we have managed to put everything under the hat of a quality model (Common Assessement Framework).

 Although the main objective of the institutional assessment should be to estimate the level of quality of education to contribute to its improvement, the evaluation process should be conceived equally as appropriate strategy to support research on the effectiveness and the quality of institutions (Tejedor, 2000).

In this work, the objectives sought were supported by the results obtained in the internal self-evaluation of of a grouping of schools of the previous year, as well as the ambition of an automation of the implementation of the CAF model. The Law 31/2002 of Portugal, mentions the need to make the internal evaluation of schools and the Decree-Law 75/2008 mentions the need to exist quality in schools.

 Thus, we intend to verify the school grouping in relation to: the Satisfaction of the educational community, the performance of initiatives implemented in the grouping of schools for the improvement of educational processes (Communication plan, project on Indiscipline and School Climate - Office of Student Support, Innovation of the teaching-learning process, implementation of Strategic action plans and Library and resource center) and infer the degree of quality in the school grouping in particular with regard the impact on school results.

It seems clearer that evaluation can be a useful tool, a powerful tool, although today, at the institutional level not effectively employed. In order to achieve this utility, two general conditions need to be given: that the endogenous component predominates (and not only in the methodological aspect); Which is not conceived of as an end in itself but as an innovation mechanism - evaluation will not be limited to the role of a resource optimization mechanism, which is important but insufficient, but rather Innovation, pointing not only to the analysis of strengths and weaknesses (internal and external) but also to the reflection on the objectives and the way of obtaining them (Tejedor, 2000).

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