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What is Self Evaluation?
What is Self Evaluation?
The term ‘self-evaluation’ is used to cover the way in which individuals and settings explore their progress, development and practice to identify what has improved and what still needs to improve. It is a way of using evidence to assess achievements and success and areas that still need action. The significant relationship between effective self-evaluation and improvement might also be understood to help settings answer the familiar three questions, which remain at the heart of self-evaluation:
The term ‘self-evaluation’ is used to cover the way in which individuals and settings explore their progress, development and practice to identify what has improved and what still needs to improve. It is a way of using evidence to assess achievements and success and areas that still need action. The significant relationship between effective self-evaluation and improvement might also be understood to help settings answer the familiar three questions, which remain at the heart of self-evaluation:
• How are we doing?
• How are we doing?
• How do we know?
• How do we know?
• What are we going to do now?
• What are we going to do now?
Who is Responsible for Self Evaluation?
EVERYBODY!
All staff should continually monitor and evaluate practices and contribute to service improvement to ensure a high quality, child-centred service, including families, children and wider community
Things to Remember.....
Things to Remember.....
Self-evaluation is a team effort; everyone’s voice is important and should be heard: the wider staff team, families, children and outside agencies and partners.
This process captures the discussions and reflections we are already having and recording them in a meaningful way.
It is about reflecting on practice, engaging with the local and national guidance and making small changes at a time, truly embedding them, to improve the setting.
It should be included as part of the ‘daily practice’ which can be at staff meetings, during planning and preparation time etc and not a one-off event.
Professional discussions can be a productive exercise. It is also helpful to try and be solution focussed to keep it time efficient.
What to Evaluate?
What to Evaluate?
National Documents Used to Evaluate Our Settings and Practice
National Documents Used to Evaluate Our Settings and Practice
It supports the ongoing journey of improvement required in meeting children's care and development needs.
It supports the ongoing journey of improvement required in meeting children's care and development needs.
“Self-evaluation, and the indicators on which it is based, is forward looking. It is about change and improvement, whether gradual or major. It should result in clear benefits for children.”
The primary purpose of a quality framework is to support services to evaluate their own performance. The same framework is then used by inspectors to provide independent assurance about the quality of services.
East Lothian Documents to Support Self Evaluation
East Lothian Documents to Support Self Evaluation
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