Educational Evaluations: Standards and Accreditations

Issues schools face or How to draw parallels and strategise

- Alignment

- Achievement

- Relevance

Which comes first, top down, bottom up, middle-top down.

Accrediting/Assessing schools

- VMG alignment with MOE's

- Self assessment and analysis Process (Using SEM as a means to frame relevant tools and process)

- Use of Becta to assess school's ICT framework (https://selfreview.becta.org.uk/about_this_framework)

How do we align the school's VMG, strategic thrusts with MOE's expectations via frameworks, SEM? --> Use of Metalanguage and semantical headers and organisation tools.

1. Awards and Recognition
   1. Organisational Excellence
      1. SQC
      2. SQA
   2. School's
      1. School Excellence Award
      2. Best Practice Awards
   3. Others
2. Standards and frameworks
   1. School's Strategic Map
   2. MOE's 21st Century Competencies
   3. School Excellence Model
   4. Partnership for 21st Century Skills
   5. Becta Information Management System Framework
3. Tools and policies
   1. Balance Score Card
   2. Strategic Map
   3. Benchmarking
   4. Knowledge Management
   5. Information Management
   6. SWOT Analysis

SEM

SEM Framework

1. Enablers
   1. Leadership
   2. Strategic Planning
   3. Staff Management
   4. Resources
   5. Student Focused Processes
2. Results
   1. Staff Results
   2. Administrative & Operational results
   3. Partnership and Society Results
   4. Key Performance Results

SEM Core Values

1. People
   1. Students First
   2. Teachers - The Key
   3. Leading with Purpose
2. System
   1. Systems support
   2. Working with Partners
   3. Management by Knowledge
3. Organizational Excellence
   1. Continuous improvement and Innovation

MOE 21st Century Competencies (Another Version in 21st Century Education)

1. Core Values
   1. Respect
   2. Responsibility
   3. Integrity
   4. Care
   5. Resilience
   6. Harmony
2. Social Emotional Competencies
   1. Self-Awareness
   2. Self-Management
   3. Social Awareness
   4. Relationship Management
   5. Responsible Decision Making
3. 21st Century Skills for Global Context
   1. Civic Literacy, Global Awareness & cross-cultural skills
   2. Critical and Inventive Thinking
   3. Information and COmmunication Skills

Standards for accreditation (Title URL Type/country/Level)

• Literacy with ICT http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/tech/lict/index.html (ICT/ Canadian/State of Manitoba)
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/index.php (Curriculum/ US/ National K12)
• Singapore Business Excellence http://www.business.gov.sg/EN/BusinessTopic/BusinessExcellence/ (Business Excellence/ Singapore/ Businesses)
• Glasser Quality Schools http://www.wglasser.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30 (US/Glasser Institute)
• ISO 9001 http://www.the9000store.com/ISO-9000-Tips-ISO-9001-Requirements.aspx
• Becta https://selfreview.becta.org.uk/ (ICT/UK/

Other Standards

• 6 Sigma
• Kaizen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
• Kanban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
• Opensource for UK schools http://opensourceschools.org.uk/
• Lamp Literacy Assessment http://www.uis.unesco.org/Literacy/Pages/lamp-literacy-assessment.aspx