1. International Forum “EURASIAN EDUCATIONAL DIALOGUE” Yaroslavl (Russia), April 17-19, 2013 Henk A. Moelands Director Cito International Cito, The Netherlands The use of the Cito Monitoring and Evaluation System for school self-improvement in The Netherlands

2. Quality Assurance Internationally –PISA –ESLC –……. Nationally –PPON (NAEP) –School leaving exams –…….

3. Quality Assurance Internationally –PISA –ESLC –……. Nationally –PPON (NAEP) –School leaving exams –……. League tables Accountability

4. Quality Assurance Internationally –PISA –ESLC –……. Nationally –PPON (NAEP) –School leaving exams –……. SchooI improvement

5. Quality Assurance Internationally –PISA –ESLC –……. Nationally –PPON (NAEP) –School leaving exams –……. SchooI improvement Monitoring and Evaluation System

6. A tool for teacher and school to monitor in a reliable and systematic way: Purpose - the progress of individual learners throughout their (primary) school career - (aspects of) the quality of the school Recently Provide school boards with information about the learning outcomes of their schools

7. Consists of: -a coherent set of nationally standardized tests (paper based and computer based) for longitudinal assessment of a pupil’s achievement throughout primary education -a system for manual or automated registration of pupil progress Content

8. Instruments

9. Diagnostic component collecting additional data identifying specific problems drawing up remedial plan Testing component administration marking and interpretation Working procedure Remedial component carrying out remedial plan evaluating remedial plan

10. The Dutch education system

11. 11 Monitoring at individual level Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 8 Grade 3 common scale e.g. length

12. Allows: Test results that differ in content, difficulty and number of items can be compared Monitoring over years with different tests Position of pupil on scale to be compared with national reference group Measuring technique (IRT)

13. Reporting Manually or with the help of a computer program -For each individual -For each class -For the school as a whole

14. PMS: Classroom related

15. Pupil Report

17. Ability scale Mathematics

18. PMS: School related

19. School Improvement School self-evaluation Accountability - Inspectorate - Publications of results in school plan e.g.

20. Cross section

21. Trend analysis (cohorts)

22. Trend analysis (grades)

23. PMS: School board related

24. Monitor

25. School board overview of testing period

26. School board trend overview

27. In conclusion (1) Cito’s Monitoring and Evaluation System is: A practical tool for teachers and schools to systematically monitor the quality of education. Recently also for school boards A system for (automatic) registration and reporting on 4 levels: Individual pupil Grade or cohort School Across schools

28. In conclusion (2) 95% of the Dutch primary schools use at least one of the tests of the system for purposes of self-evaluation Head teachers in the Netherlands regard self-evaluation as a useful and instructive undertaking But: accompanying process take a lot of time and causes many to hesitate when it comes to actually carrying out a self- evaluation.

29. In conclusion (3) Please be aware: Purposes may change over time

31. In conclusion (3) Please be aware: Purposes may change over time

32. спасибо (henk.moelands@cito.nl)