Leadership Programme 2013/2014 Session 4: Impact: Evaluation +

Evidence

Check In

• How are you feeling?• What did you learn from your critical

incident?

Homework from Session 3• Write up a critical incident in your learning journal of an event in

which you realised the importance of using interpersonal skills effectively in order to achieve a positive outcome.

• Home Group Task – do some research on different leadership styles and share your thoughts with each other on this.

• Coach Conversation – share your self-evaluation with your coach and from the group task discuss with your coach how you are going to work on your area/s for development within interpersonal skills. Remember it is you who sets the agenda so if the above does not fit in with your development needs then please feel free to focus your coaching session around your own areas for development.

Special Guest

Elaine Cook – Head of Education(Quality Assurance & Specialist

Services)

3 Areas of Impact• Increased personal

capacity

• Pupil gain

• Increased capacity in colleagues/school/LA/educational system

Success Criteria

• Meaningful, relate to intentions

• Imply the use of planned evaluation techniques

• Relate to the project but not just task completion

• Able to generate evidence of impact –positive change

• Answer the “so what” question

Evidence of Impact

Success Criteria + Evaluation Strategies > Evidence of Impact

Evidence of Impact 1Relating evidence to the bigger picture and the intended outcomes

• for your own leadership and management practice?

• for pupils and their learning?

• for colleagues, their learning and their practice and for the system as a whole?

Evidence of Impact 2Identifying detailed Success

Criteria and demonstrating meeting them

• What does success in the chosen activities look like in detail?

• What evidence would allow me to identify the actual impact that had taken place (as opposed to what I had planned for or hoped for)?

Evidence of Impact 3Identifying the Evaluation

Strategies• How will I know for sure?• What methods will be appropriate

to find out?• How can I demonstrate:

my own learning, level of competence, enhanced professional actions?

pupil gain ie improved quality in pupils’ learning experiences and pupil learning?

increased capacity within the system?

Evaluation Strategies

•Methodologies

•How you obtain your evidence and who from

•Planned in advanced

2 Traditions/Paradigms

QuantitativeRelating to amountwhat?where?when?• numerical• statistical• “scientific”• objective

QualitativeRelating to nature/kindhow? why?• people’s views and

opinions• “personal”• subjective

Task: discuss with a partner

What methods might you use to gather generate evidence of:

• increased personal capacity (reflect on the Standard for Middle Leaders)

• pupil gain• increased systems capacity

Evaluation Strategies: enhanced personal capacity

• Self evaluation pre and post• Using Learning log/journal to track progress• Critical incident analysis• Reflection on Coach discussions• Analysis through Reflective Commentary

Evaluation Strategies: Pupil Gain

• Sampling pupil work• Using assessment/attainment data• Using data from classroom observations

(self/peer/management/audio/video)• Using info from questionnaires• Conducting interviews/focus groups

Evaluation Strategies: enhanced systems capacity

• Looking for documentary evidence eg School Improvement Plan/Standards and Quality Report/Policy documents

• Citing HMIE reports• Gathering Colleagues views• VSE/LA Reviews

Homework for Session 5• Self study: Research qualitative and quantitative evidence –

previously issued article by Valsa Koshy, “Action Research” will help with this.

• Home Group Task – share your three key research findings with your group and make you case for qualitative or quantitative.

• Coach Conversation(suggestion): see next slide• Reading: “10 Commandments of Successful Innovation” TES

Article• Reading: “Doing Your Research Project” by Judith Bell

Coach Conversation (suggested)

• Pick one success criterion for your project• Discuss with your coach how you can show

you have met it• What evaluation method will you use?• What will the evidence look like?