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

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

3. Quality of Education = responsibility of schools

4. 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.

5. CIPO

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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?

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

11. 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 -

12. 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

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

14. Study PhD Ilse De Volder

15. Final thoughts?
Questions?