Abstract
In 2015, the Italian parliament approved the law no. 107, named “La Buona Scuola” (“The Good School”), in order to boost the quality of organizational processes in schools. Among these, one of the most innovative was introducing a performance evaluation procedure for the nearly 7000 school principals of Italian public schools, from primary to college.From 2000 on, the legal status of schools principals in the public system have been set to the managerial level. However, no formal performance evaluation had been really performed before. In 2016, the INVALSI (the governmental agency for the evaluation of the national education system - http://www.invalsi.it/invalsi/index.php) was instructed to formulate a project aimed to: i) translate into concrete organizational procedures the goals dictated by the law; ii) train the evaluation teams needed; iii) monitor by an appropriate research design the outcomes of the new performance evaluation.The paper describes and discusses the training programme for assessors, the research design and some preliminary results.
Highlights
In the year 2015, the Italian parliament approved the law no. 107, known as “La Buona Scuola” (“The Good School”), in order to boost the quality of both pedagogical and organizational processes in schools
This paper will concentrate only in the organizational side of the educational process developed by the school, taking into account more in detail the evaluation of the performance of school principals, which has been introduced by the aforementioned law
It has been stated that the performance of every SP during the previous school year has to be assessed against three main criteria, namely: i) unified management, promotion of participation, managerial competences aimed to get results; ii) enhancing and promoting human resources, professional effort and merit (30%); iii) recognition within professional and local community (10%)
Summary
In the year 2015, the Italian parliament approved the law no. 107, known as “La Buona Scuola” (“The Good School”), in order to boost the quality of both pedagogical and organizational processes in schools. 107, known as “La Buona Scuola” (“The Good School”), in order to boost the quality of both pedagogical and organizational processes in schools. Within this framework, “school” refers to the institutions directly held by the State, and includes primary (6 to 11-yearold pupils), to lower secondary (11 to 14), and upper secondary school (14 to 19). It has been stated that the performance of every SP during the previous school year has to be assessed against three main criteria, namely: i) unified management, promotion of participation, managerial competences aimed to get results (accounting for 60% of the final evaluation rating); ii) enhancing and promoting human resources, professional effort and merit (30%); iii) recognition within professional and local community (10%)
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