Lukion arviointikulttuuri ja oman toiminnan arviointi osana paikallista sivistyshallintoa

The National Core Curriculum (2019) for general upper secondary education introduced an obligation to describe the principles of schools' assessment culture and common evaluationpractices in local curricula, as well as monitoring their implementation. This article examines howassessment culture is described in local curricula of general upper secondary schools and howthe evaluation obligation required by the Upper Secondary School Act (714/2018) on qualitymanagement and continuous development is implemented between educational institutionsand education providers. Qualitative data consisting of 14 local curricula and individualinterviews with 14 general upper secondary school principals have been analysed usingqualitative content analysis. The results show that, within local education administration,only some general upper secondary education providers implement the systematic evaluationof their own performance required by legislation. Our study's results indicate the central role of principals in assessing the quality of general upper secondary education.