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How good is our school? - Self-evaluation using quality indicators 2002 Edition incorporating the six-point scale

Introduction

The aim of this publication is to help you to evaluate the quality of education in your school. It is based around a set of quality indicators to help you to:

• recognise key strengths
• identify areas where good quality needs to be maintained or where improvement is needed
• identify priorities for your development plan
• report on standards and quality in your school.

Three basic questions are at the heart of the process of evaluation.

• asks us to consider how our school is performing in relation to the aims we have identified
• suggests how self-evaluation can help us.

• describes the use of quality indicators to measure how we are doing within key areas of provision
• indicates reference points for evaluation.

• describes how to report and take forward what we know about standards and quality in our schools.

The publication is in four parts.

Part 1 provides a step-by-step approach to school self-evaluation drawing on the three basic questions, discusses the complementary roles of school self-evaluation and external evaluation and describes how quality indicators are used within school evaluation and development planning.

Part 2 provides practical guidance and case studies on using quality indicators in self-evaluation.

Part 3 contains the quality indicators themselves.

Part 4 gives information about further sources of advice on using quality indicators.

Parts 1 and 2 are organised by means of the three questions:

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