these circumstances lead to limited training and preparation on pedagogical evaluation and human resource management for the role of the school principal in school selfevaluation school improvement teacher appraisal and teacher career development this is a rather technical area requiring very specific expertise in domains such as educational measurement test development validation of test items or scaling methods which happens to be scarce in the czech republic mostly as the result of the limited availability of higher education offerings in these areas in the country this is a rather problematic challenge as a current priority is the development of standardised testing in grades and