1. - September 19-23, 2011 – Group No 42 – D.S. Mendola Italy
Development of management and quality systems of educational institutions in Tallinn municipality
September 19-23, 2011
Group No 42
H.M. Calogero Mendola
Italy
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2. My report will be articulated in four parts
First Level Secondary School “ Biagio Siciliano” in Capaci, Palermo - Sicily- Italy.
My report will be articulated in four parts
The first part will deal with the italian school system on the whole
The second part will deal with the national evaluation system INVALSI applied to my school
The third one will deal with an auto evaluation model applied to my school
In the last one, I’ll show to you same data about my school.

3. - September 19-23, 2011 – Group No 42 – D.S. Mendola Italy
THE FIRST PART
The 34th paragraph of the Italian Constitution says:
“ The school is opened to everybody.
The low instruction, given for eight years at least, is compulsory and free.
The able and worthy students, also if without means, have the right of reaching the highest degrees in the studies”. (1)
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Instruction, in Italy, is compulsory for ten years at least and until 16th years old.
The fulfilment of the instruction obligation must give the opportunity, after getting the conclusive first cycle degree, of acquiring knowledge and competences expected by the curricula in the first two years of the secondary second level instruction.
Respecting the general and specific learning objectives expected by curricula, ways and projects can be agreed between the Public Instruction Ministry and the single regions which, saved the school autonomy, are able of preventing and fighting the dispersion and of favouring success in the fulfilment of instruction obligation.
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Italian Instruction System
 It includes public state controlled schools and private schools.
 First cycle:
Primary school:
Childhood
Elementary
And
First level secondary school (2)
 Second cycle:
Second level secondary school
Liceo lasting five years with six different addresses
Technical institutes lasting five years with two sectors (economical and technological)
Professional Institutes lasting five years with two sectors:
Services with four addresses
Industry and handcraft with two addresses.(3)
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Vocational training economically managed and controlled by the Regions with the support of Public Institutes.
University: short degree ( three years) + specialization ( two years)
Laurea Magistralis ( five years).
The Autonomy school.
In 1997 Autonomy Law for school has been promulgated.
To implement schools autonomy ,the functions of central and peripheral Administration of public instruction about instruction management, are attributed to the same schools.
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What does schools autonomy consists of ?
Schools autonomy is a guarantee of teaching freedom and cultural pluralism and consists of planning and realising of educational, vocational and instruction interventions which aim to the development of human being, suitable to different contexts, to families needs and to specific features of the involved subjects, wit the purpose of guaranteeing for them formative success, coherently with purposes and general objectives of the instruction system and with the need of bettering the efficacy of teaching and learning process.
A didactic autonomy that is
1- to prepare the formative offering Plan, which is the fundamental document of the schools cultural and projecting identity and expresses the curricular, extracurricular, educational and organizing project which each school adopts in their autonomy sphere
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The formative offering Plan is elaborated from the teaching staff on the base of the general addresses for the school’s activities and of the management and administration general chooses made by the Institute Council, considering the proposals and the advices of the families associations and organizations and, for the secondary schools, of the students.
2.To carry out the national objectives in formative paths functional to the realization of the right of learning and to educative growth of all the pupils, recognizing and enhancing the differences, promoting everybody’s capacities and adopting all the initiatives useful to the formative success reaching.
3. to rule times and development of each subjects,
4. to adopt flexibility in subject’s timetable, in making groups of pupils, in opening individualized paths, always respecting the general principle of pupils integration in the classroom and in the group, also in relation with the disabled students.
5. to assure the realization of recovery and sustain forms for pupils in troubles.
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6. To individuate students evaluation forms and standards respecting national regulations and standards of periodical evaluation of obtained results of the schools with respect to prefixed objectives.
Moreover it allows
B. organizing autonomy
C. autonomy in research, experimentation and development
D. constitution of school’s nets
E. definition of curricula
F. enlargement of formative offering
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10. Formazione sulla riforma
Evaluation isn’t a process end to itself, but an instrument for….. 16
To choose
To compare
To rationalize
processes/resources
To promote
partecipation
To know
To report
To better quality
Sebastiano Pulvirenti

11. Formazione sulla riforma16
Partner of evaluetion processes
Professional
categories
Teachers
Students
University
No teachers
Local Authorities
Families
Formazione sulla riforma
Companies
Partners’ involvement
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12. Formazione sulla riforma16
Evaluation is a continunous process
Problems/date
consciouseness
Informations collection and
Processing system
Evaluation
and
vocational
Improvement
projects
(quality)
Formazione sulla riforma
Projecting evaluation
Sebastiano Pulvirenti

13. The referring picture in the Italian school system
Evaluation processes
Evaluation of students knowledges and abilities
(I.N.VAL.S.I.)
SI.VA.DI.S. (H.M. evaluation)
Evaluation of quality of formative offering
(I.N.VAL.S.I.)
Evaluation of students
Learning and behaviour
(teachers)
Students competences certification
(teachers)
Sebastiano Pulvirenti

14. The evaluation of learning and educative system of instruction and training quality.
a) periodical and annual evaluation of learning and behaviour of students and certification of their acquired competences, are entrusted to teachers….
b) ….the INVALSI makes periodical and systematic tests over students’ knowledge and ability and over comprehensive quality of training offer particularly for Maths and Italian language.
Sebastiano Pulvirenti

15. Who are responsible for evalutation
Teachers
(4)
I.N.VAL.S.I. (5)
Sebastiano Pulvirenti

16. - September 19-23, 2011 – Group No 42 – D.S. Mendola Italy
Two experiences made in the school “Biagio Siciliano site of the Observatory against the school dispersion too and particularly: desertions, escapes, failures.
The first experience.
Evaluation INVALSI on a national level
Students of 2nd elementary class [on may]
5th elementary class [on may]
1st secondary low school [on may]
3rt secondary low school [on june]
2nd secondary high school on may
They have been tested for understanding of language and maths. The tests have been adapted for disabled students ( blind or less-seeing or with DSA specific learning troubles.
The collected data are processed by INVALSI which returns the results with the comparison of all the schools with their classes and the corresponding comparisons with the regional, national and European averages.
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17. 1. analysis of the processes 2. analysis of the satisfaction
Second esperience
Auto-evaluation relative to the school “ Biagio Siciliano” in Capaci, applying the software arranged by the Foundation for the School of the Saint Paul’s Company.
I’ll show the first two of the four aspects of the auto-evaluation system:
1. analysis of the processes
2. analysis of the satisfaction
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DATA REFERRING TO THE SCHOOL “BIAGIO SICILIANO” IN THE YEAR 2011/12
Students n. 536 ( 5 of them are disabled students)
N° classes : 22
6 first classes with 30 hours of lessons and a class with 36 hours
5 second classes with 30 h of lessons and 2 with 36 h
7 third classes with 30 h and 1 third with 36 h
There’s a “short week” ( only 5 days of lessons).
Foto school
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