Evaluation and Accountability

Evaluation Institute and its role in evaluating private schools

• Evaluating schools’ processes and outcomes soundly, systematically and objectively.

• Ensuring that schools are accountable for the quality of education they provide.

• Enhancing schools’ use of educational data and evaluation in monitoring and developing their own performance.

Evaluation Processes• Ongoing monitoring of student, parent, teacher

and school data related to school performance .• Professional licensing of teachers and school

leaders• School accreditation• National testing• International testing programs• Evaluation by exception

DCMO is one of the Evaluation Institute’s offices in SEC .

It is responsible for maintaining a comprehensive and current data base of all aspects of schools. It undertakes a wide-ranging collection of school enumeration data at the beginning of each academic year. Through school numeration, all schools in Qatar are fully identified and basic data about their principals, teachers and students and their parents are gathered. The enumeration data provide the base on which all other SEC offices depend.

Data Collection and Management Office (DCMO)

Qatar Comprehensive School Surveys (QCSS)

Data SourceData collection

periodData collection method

School profile

October to December

School visit

School questionnaire Survey through the Internet

Principal questionnaire Survey through the Internet

Parent questionnaire

Februaryto March

Paper survey completed at home

Student questionnaire Paper survey completed at school

Teacher questionnaire Computer assisted questionnaire completed at school

• National Testing .• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study

(TIMSS) programGrades 4 and 8 students in Science and Mathematics in 2007 and 2011

• Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) programGrade 4 students in Reading in 2006 and 2010

• Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) programFifteen-year-old students in English, Mathematics and Science in 2006 and 2010

National Testing and Qatar’s Participation in International Studies

School Accreditation• Undertaken every three years.

• Identifies the performance levels and development of the school’s processes and outcomes.

• Experts evaluate the school’s performance and progress using sound and systematic processes.

• Identifies areas of strength and weakness and provides recommendations.

• Related to the renewal of the school’s license.

Meets minimum requirements and

applies for position

QORLA Overview of Registration

9

Step One

Step One

Step Two

Step Two

Applies for provisional licence

within 30 days. School

Operator/Principal attests to application

Step Three

Step Three

Receives provisional

licence

Step Four

Step Four

Begins to gather

evidence in portfolio

Step Five

Step Five

Step Six

Step Six

Attestation committee agrees with

application and submits to QORLA

Presents application for a full licence and

portfolio to school

attestation committee

Step Seven

Step Seven

Full licence Granted by

QORLA

School Accreditation Approach• Establishing the principles and standards.• Utilises school self-evaluation.• Involves the conduct of an external evaluation.• Forms conclusions and reports on the outcomes of

the accreditation process to the school, the SEC and publicly results.

• Undertakes a re-evaluation every three years or sooner if necessary.

Ongoing Monitoring

• A continuous process which is undertaken as new data become available.

• Focuses on schools’ levels of performance and progress in comparative and absolute terms.

• Includes and consider a wide range of data.• Involves educationally sound and considered

evaluative processes.• Identifies aspects of schools’ performance which are

exceptional.

School Report Card• Developed and issued annually.

• Provides a summary of a wide range of important aspects of the educational process of all Qatar’s schools whether government, independent or private.

• Targeted audience: parents in particular, and those interested in the educational process in general.

• Assists parents in making decisions about schools and schooling.

• Contains data on the previous school year as well as data from the previous three years for selected aspects.

• Available in paper and electronic forms for any one interested in schools in Qatar and schooling in Qatar.

School Report Card

School Report Card (Continued)