Students observing lessons and giving teachers feedback can be seen as threatening however Nobel School have found this to be a highly effective way to support teacher self-evaluation by providing relevant feedback as well as fostering student voice. Participants are invited to take part through personal invitations and announcements in assemblies.

Consulting students about their school experience is widely acknowledged as a key theme in school improvement and central to the vision and success of the English government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. This project was initiated by secondary headteachers in Thanet with support from their local authority. It sought to inform both their vision for secondary education and their response to the BSF initiative.

Although Italian legislation has provided for varying forms of pupil representation in school councils and committees and on different levels of the local and national education system, these do not necessarily imply authentic, meaningful participation by young people in decision-making processes of any importance nor that anyone important will necessarily listen to anything meaningful they might express.