Post on 17-Dec-2015
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Preparing for your college review
HMI Jan Davidson
Student Team Member – Szabolcs Kotek
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Themes
• Who we are and what we do• Pre-review• Review week• Post review
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Education Scotland – who we are and what we do…
Part of the directorate that deals with Lifelong learning and post-16 provision.
We review or inspect –– Colleges– Private colleges and English language schools– Prison education– Community learning and development– Careers information, advice and guidance
service
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The context
• HM Inspectors undertake reviews of standards and quality in Scotland’s colleges on behalf of SFC
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What is the main purpose of the review?• to support and promote quality enhancement in colleges
to provide the best possible experience for the learner; • to provide information to Scottish Ministers and the
public on the quality of colleges and the education and training they provide;
• to complement college-led internal review and self-evaluation; and
• to identify excellent practice.
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Working with colleges: three key principles:
High quality learning:
Learner engagement
Quality culture
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Evaluative activities
Annual engagement
Subject based or thematic
aspect reports
External reviews of colleges
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High quality learning
• How effective are the college’s learning and teaching processes?
• How well are learners progressing and achieving relevant, high quality outcomes?
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Learner engagement
• How well are learners engaged in enhancing their own learning and the work and life of the college?
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Quality culture
• How well is the college led and how well is it enhancing the quality of its services for learners and other stakeholders?
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Pre-review phase
Managing inspector:• meets Principal and Chair of the Board/Regional Lead,
staff and learners;• agrees essential documentation from college or access
to college intranet; • arranges for the return of the Learner Engagement arranges for the return of the Learner Engagement
QuestionnaireQuestionnaire; • liaises over arrangements with College Nominee.
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Review week (varies depending on size and nature of college)
3 x full days in college:• Monday all day• Tuesday all day• Wednesday all day• Evening classes as appropriate• Outreach classes as appropriate• Team meeting at the end of each day – in college
(attended by college nominee)
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Arriving at evaluations
• discussions with learnersdiscussions with learners and other stakeholders
• discussions with staff and managers
• observations of learning and teaching
• review essential documentation such as learning and teaching packs, internal review or self-evaluation reports, achievement information, including PI data
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Discussion of findings
Friday – MI, one colleague and STM:
• discussion of findings with Principal, SMT and student president.student president.
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From draft to final report
• summary evaluations two weeks after external review• draft report sent accuracy check meeting Principal
and Chair/Regional Lead• publication of report on the Education Scotland
website• development of a learners’ version of the reportlearners’ version of the report
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What will the report say?
• Overarching statement of effectiveness:
Effective
Limited effectiveness
Not effective
• Plus supporting statements to provide detail
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After the external review
• College prepares action plan• SFC determines whether follow-up required• College HMI visits college and monitors progress on
Main Points for Action and areas for development• Within a year – college BoM publishes response
• Annual engagement process by Education Annual engagement process by Education ScotlandScotland
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…the principle of student engagement implies … that colleges … support the development of students as co-creators of their learning who take responsibility for their own learning …and … are involved in decision-making about their curricula, teaching and learning, and all aspects of the student experience.
- ‘Final report of the Scottish Funding Council’s Joint Quality Review Group’,
2008
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Quality improvement and enhancement –
beyond the review…
Learners
Reviewers(HMIIs, AAs and STMs)
Staff
Co-evaluators of the learner experience
Co-evaluators of the learner experience
Co-creators of learning