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Teachers as researchers in the social world of the school - an introduction to documentary evaluation This article concerns a documentary evaluation tool which will enable teachers to answer the question: “What is really happening in our school?”. Seemingly similar problems in schools turn out to be different, with an understanding of what they consist of and where they come from, requiring comprehension of their complexity and the diversity of conditioning and experience of those who participate in school life. The documentary evaluation tool proposed requires two things from the teachers who run it: an awareness of their own personal involvement and views, and simultaneously, the ability to control them. In relation to this, using the cascade model of documentary evaluation, the authors, together with the teacher-researchers, went through the following stages: collecting materials that refer to the problem from various experiences and perspectives, interpretation of the gathered materials and analysis of the methods used by the team itself. Emphasis was placed on selecting a team of teacher-researchers who would create partnerships and support each other as communities of innovators.