Quality system and evaluation
State
level responsibilities
- Education act and other school laws
- Curricula for different school forms, syllabi for the different subjects and other steering documents
- National tests
- Swedish Schools Inspectorate:
- School inspections and supervision
- Granting licenses to new
independent schools
Stockholm
background facts
- Municipality (City) of Stockholm: 800 000 inhabitants
- County of Stockholm (mainly city area): 2 000 000 inhabitants
- Schools: Free choice (almost) between municipal and independent schools. Competition among schools to get pupils, a school market.
- Selection criteria of pupils: - Compulsory schools: Proximity (municipal schools) or queue system (independent schools)
- Upper secondary: Compulsory school
grades
- Segregation between schools as well as between areas
Educational
organization in Stockholm
- Compulsory schools (age 6-16): - About 140 municipal schools
- About 100
independent schools (24%
of the Stockholm students)
- Upper secondary schools (age 16-19):- 28 municipal schools
- About 65 independent schools
(38% of the Stockholm students)
(38% of the Stockholm students)
- Adult education: - 4 municipal schools
- 19 private providers
under municipal control
- Swedish for immigrants: - 2 municipal schools
- 6 private providers under municipal
control
- Pre-schools: A large number of municipal and private pre-schools
Political
and steering level
- The Board of Education each year decides upon a Plan of Action with goals and indicators
- The goals and indicators and quality reports are put into the web-based City Information and Management System (ILS)
The
Stockholm evaluation system –
School level
School level
- Schools and pre-schools conduct self evaluations and write annual quality reports using:
o
Grade
results
o
Mandatory
national tests in Swedish, English and Mathematics in compulsory school years
3, 5 and 9 and in some upper secondary school courses.
o
Questionnaire
investigations made every second year (soon every year)
o
City
inspection
The
Stockholm evaluation system –
Education administration level
Education administration level
- The departments of Compulsory schools and Upper secondary schools in The Education Administration write annual quality reports about the municipal schools
- Each City district (14) writes an annual quality report about the municipal pre-schools
- The Social services and employment administration writes an annual quality report about all Swedish For Immigrants education
- The Education Administration writes a quality report, which is a synthesis and analysis of the above mentioned reports
The
purposes of a quality report
- Contribute to creating a good quality work
- Inform decision makers
Report
areas
- Leadership and quality work
- Knowledge and learning
- Norms and values
- Assessment and grading (not pre-school)
- Cooperation with home and with school (only pre-school)
- Specific areas of school child care
City
evaluation design
- Documentary studies
- Visiting school or pre-school about 4 days with interviews and observations
- Oral feedback to the school management
- Written report – 15-25 pages
- Strengths (sometimes also extraordinary
quality)
- Weaknesses - Recommended development areas
Information conversations with
Education Administration managers
City evaluation
process
- Announcement to school at least 2 months ahead
- Introduction letters and matrix sent to school
- Documentary studies
- 2-3 evaluators visiting 3-6 days (normally 4 days)
- Interview with school management
- Interviews with teachers and students
- Observations in classrooms and public spaces
- Oral feedback to school management at the end of the evaluation
- Preliminary written report 2-3 weeks later to school management
- Final report after feedback from school management
Evaluater
Stockholm Education
Administration
Evaluation Unit
Hantverkargatan 3A,
Box 22049
SE-104 22 Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 508 33 882 Mobile +46 76 12 33 882
ingegerd.salomonsson@stockholm.se