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7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Use of ICT in Self-evaluation Process Presented by: Katerina Marcheva, principal “St. Kl. Ohridski” Foreign Language School Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko SEKER Leonardo da Vinchi Project  Transfer of innovations  Ref. No TR-LEO  SEKER is a method for improving quality in education through a process of self-evaluation by teachers

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko States, participated in the project  Turkey – Contractor of the project Three institutions  Slovenia - Coordinator Three institutions  Bulgaria One institution  Great Britain One institution

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Participants

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Background of the project  QUTE  First Leonardo da Vinchi project   SEKER  Transfer of the results of a QUTE project  /

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko What is QUTE?  Abbreviation of methodology used to made a FREE online self-assessment tool  Based on Common Quality Assurance Framework (CQAF), part of Copenhagen process  The teacher is the centre of self-evaluation and QUTE is the tool for measurement of opinions and the creation of possibilities for improvements in his/her methods

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko QUTE and SEKER  QUTE, which was in turn based on a system for self evaluation developed in Slovenia  This perception is measured through an electronic questionnaire with the students responses aggregated into a single response which is then compared with the teacher’s

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko What is done in Bulgaria?  Organizational work  Involvement of the 15 educational organizations  Higher education – 8 departments in two universities (NBU and SWU)  Vocational schools – 1 mechanical school  Secondary schools – 4 schools  Primary schools – 2 schools

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Training of the Administrators  Course on the March 2010  Individual work with the administrators and teachers in their schools  Technical help

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Self-evaluation  The situation about self-evaluation in Bulgaria  Difference between self-evaluation in the university and schools  The use self-evaluation in the process of improving the quality of education

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Our work with schools  Offered the information about self- evaluation and the benefit of using it in education  Presented the SEKER Project and our foreign partners  Introduced the QUTE system and steps of using it

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Key part of the work  What is the quality?  3 in 1 External evaluation Internal evaluation Self evaluation  Indicators  Questionnaires

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Indicators  Two main areas Teaching process School management  Examples

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Indicators –teaching process

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Indicators –school management  Organization of teaching process (timetable, supporting t, breaks, cooperation of teachers in creation of timetable, cover, supplying of teachers)  Communication (meetings, newsletters, minutes, open days – school promotion …)  Guidance (vocational guidance, training days for helping students, solving of problems, referral process..)  Support of new teachers (incorporation of new teacher in school, mentoring of new teachers, observations, feedback, additional training …)  Teacher training (continuous training, consultation, peer learning, goal setting …)  Environment (tidiness of classroom, teachers facilities, storage, funding of additional equipment …)  Evaluation of the staff (implementation of self-evaluation …)

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Steps of the self-evaluation process 1.Agreement who will participate in the campaign (teachers of specific subject from school, teachers from different schools in region...) and what will be topic of survey (CQAF recommendations) 2.Preparation of questionnaires (survey) according to CQAF recommendations. 3.Questionnaires are answered by students 4.The same questionnaires are answered by teacher 5.The teacher compare his/her answers to the aggregation of students answers 6.The teacher compares his/her answers to the aggregation of other teachers in the campaign 7.The principal / QA (Quality Assessment) quality group get the aggregation of students and teacher’s answers and prepare plan for improvements

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Procedure of self-evaluation

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Survey with students

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko How does it work?

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Statements - positive

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Two type of statements  Questions for the teacher  Counter questions for the students

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Evaluation

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Results

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Using the data  The school principal or school quality assurance group can then analyse the final results. They get the averages of the teacher’s and students’ answers and compare them together.  Differences greater than 20% between opinions means potential problems  The extent of this distortion shows how great the problem is.

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Documents  Instructions  List of participants  Analyses  Protocols  Reports

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Problems and benefits  Problems Technical Software Organizational Human factor – behavioral  Benefits From point of view of the learners From point of view of educational institutions

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Quality culture  part of organisational culture  covers the employees’ attitudes to work with quality  QUTE – SEKER is a method of implementing those attitudes

7 th, August th Fulbright International Conference, Bansko Comments and questions