'Good School, Bad School'. Evaluating Performance and Encouraging Improvement

Abstract

Part 1 Setting frameworks: the quality of schooling - frameworks for judgement developing frameworks for monitoring and evaluation from research on school effectiveness. Part 2 Gathering hard evidence: HMI's interpretations of schools' examination results (with postscripts for the Nineties) performance indicators - flourish or perish? developing value-added approaches to school evaluation - the experiences of three LEAs estimating differences in the examination performances of secondary schools in six LEAs - a multi-level approach to school effectiveness. Part 3 The contribution of school inspection to school improvement: inspection and school improvement - rhetoric and experience from the bridge reactions to inspection - a study of three variants the methodologies of school inspection - issues and dilemmas the inspectors recommended... a follow-up study in six secondary schools. Part 4 Looking to the future: the statistics of school improvement - establishing the agenda the challenge of turning round ineffective schools.