How to monitor your schools progress

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How to monitor your schools progress

• Peter Tymms
• CEM, Durham University

www.cemcentre.org
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Outline

• Monitoring at Durham
• Philosophy of the approach
• Coverage
• Value added
• Attitudes

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1982-3Dispute in a high-achieving school
Head of Maths. department
Headteacher
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Monitoring

• Outcomes
• Cognitive measures
• Affective measures
• Behaviour
• Processes (teaching, homework etc.)
• Physical
• Mental Health

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General model
Processes Teaching etc
Outputs End points
Inputs Starting points
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WHY USE A BASELINE TEST?
A) To be fair in evaluating schools
B) To inform teachers about their students
C) To have something that does
not change each year
D) To create a research ethos
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Value added
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Statistical Process Control
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Perceptions
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Yellis regression segments
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The Essentials of Monitoring

• Education is complex and prediction is
  problematic
• Measure outcomes that are important
• Achievement
• Attitudes (aspirations, self-esteem etc)
• Value added
• Monitor the monitoring

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Two Approaches

• Official Accountability
• For outsiders
• League tables
• Hide problems
• Praise and criticise

• Professional Monitoring
• For insiders
• Light monitoring
• Find problems
• Joy in work

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Feedback

• To the teacher, school, district
• On
• Paper
• Disk
• With software
• Over the internet
• Rapidly

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Scope Summary

• 1,000,000 students each year
• 1000s schools
• Ages 3 to 18
• England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, the
  Netherlands, China, Germany S. Africa
• Confidential and accurate
• With support

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CEM Growth
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Non-UK Schools Participating in CEM Centre
Projects 2007/08
Netherlands 6/3
0/32
2/1
1/0
12/2
Belgium 3/0
0/1
2/0
6/0
0/1
14/2
4/0
4/2
2/1
Qatar 6/2
6/2
1/1
5/1
UAE 11/3
3/2
3/1
Cyprus 5/0
0/1
Oman 3/0
11/4
Bermuda 1/0
Hong Kong 5/30
1/2
Bahrain 3/1
0/1
0/1
Brunei 0/1
6/2
Cayman Is. 2/0
1/0
3/1
Singapore 5/4
1/12
0/775
21/22
193/72
Falklands 2/0
Right of slash contracts with primary schools
Mauve box standard CEM Centre projects run in
non-UK schools
Yellow box local versions of CEM Centre
projects
0/32
2/1
Left of slash contracts with secondary schools