How the Flemish Inspectorate stimulates innovative schools Flemish Inspectorate of Education Ingrid Ocket & Frans De Bie, inspectors

Quality assurance in Flemish education 3 key words 1. autonomy 2. support 3. accountability

Quality of Education = responsibility of schools

Role of the inspectorate  check the 3 quality conditions does the school respect the rules and regulations and deliver quality education and good quality outcomes? does the school provide quality monitoring, assuring the quality of the educational processes? does the school have capacity to establish good policy?    write school reports  advise further recognition It’s part of the school’s autonomy how they will concretely interpret this self-evaluation.

CIPO

Quality examination Preliminary enquiry Audit Inspection report Results of data analysis examination: interviews observations interpretation Results of deliberation: strenghts and weaknesses advice Data analysis Examination: interviews observations Interpretation Deliberation: focus for the audit Data analysis Examination: interviews observations Interpretation Deliberation: advice

Preliminary enquiry  integral enquiry to assess the local situation: Interpretation Integral image of estimated strenghts and weaknesses Deliberation Representative selection of estimated strenghts/weaknesses Audit focus Selection of audit items

Audit  profound and differentiated case-studies  technique of triangulation conversations observations document analysis

Audit which initiatives and innovations are being developed?  with the following basic questions as a guideline: which initiatives and innovations are being developed? how the team has chosen the initiatives and innovations which effects does the team want to achieve by these? what are the current effects? how do the team members themselves evaluate the obtained learning effects, results?

Additional enquiries Language policy Science Techniques Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Social Economical Status (SES) Wellbeing

Inspection report  report about the 3 quality conditions respecting the rules and regulations quality monitoring, assuring the quality of the educational processes capacity to establish good policy  the results of our enquiries with special attention for our confidence in the institution’s autonomy deliberation, weighing « strengths » and « weaknesses » stimulation signalisation in case of serious structural weaknesses -

Inspection report  chapter with strenghts and weaknesses relevant aspects which are good, examples of good practice relevant aspects which can be improved, levers for improvement relevant aspects which have to be improved, the subject(s) of further control

Final touch  concluding conversation about the report  publication on a public website  no ‘ranking’

Study PhD Ilse De Volder

Final thoughts? Questions?