T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Quality and Evaluation in Education

in Tampere

Riitta Juusenaho, Research and Evaluation Manager, EdD

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

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T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

The Finnish education system

Preschool

Basic education(comprehensive school)

Upper secondary schools Vocational schools

Universities Polytehcnics Specialist vocationalqualifications

Further vocationalqualifications

Work experience

9 -10 years

compulsory

school

age 6

age 7

age 1610

4 years

3-4 years

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Evaluators in Finland

• Ministry of Education

• National Board of Education (NBE)

• Finnish Education Evaluation Council and The Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council

• Provincial covernments (Regional Councils)

• Municipal or municipal consortiums

• Schools

• Teachers

• Students/Pupils

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Principles of Evaluation in Tampere

Municipality evaluates services also

Evaluation involves active cooperation (purchaser/provider)

Evaluation aimes at quality

Evaluation is not an act of inspection

Evaluation is based on openness

Evaluation promotes development

Evaluation is efficient and economicall

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

The Education levels and Quality in City of Tampere

Early education/Day Care (age 0-7) :

Promotes children´s positive growth and wellbeing. It evens out the differences based on living conditions among children. Evaluation is local.

Compulsory education ( age 7-16):

Basic education must provide an opportunity for diversified growth, learning, and the development of a healthy self-esteem, so that the pupils can obtain the knowledge and skills they need in life, become capable of further study, and, as involved citizens, develop a democratic society.

Also, basic education aims at increasing an awareness of the values and ways of acting that form the foundation of society and awaken desire for lifelong learning.

Evaluation is local, national and international.

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

The Education levels and Quality in City of Tampere

Upper Secondary education ( age 16-19):

Suports the students´growht into good, balanced and educated individuals and members of society and provides them skills and knowledge needeed in further studies.

Evaluation is local, national and international

Polytecnics:

Complementation of previous qualifications.Degree is working life oriented vocational qualification.

Evaluation is local, national and international

Universities:

Academic degrees: Bachelor´s,Master´s, Licentiate and Doctoral degree.

Evaluation is local, national and international

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

What is Quality in Education ?

There is no single definition about quality.

•Quality is defined differently in different places,at different times and different cultures.

•Quality in education highlights the prosesses of education and learning.

•Education is quality when it achieves action based on goals.

• Value for money-thinking

•Better quality means that organisation is able to reach better the goals it has been set .

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Success in Pisa ( Program for International Student Assessment)

Quality is based on:Educational system, students´own interests and leisure activities, highly educated teachers and well- respected education

Equality means: All children in Finland are provided the same opportunities to learn, the obstacles to learn are tackled by special teachers, an atmosphere of lifelong learning- and learning to learn.

Quality Equality

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Pisa in Finland (Program for International Student Assessment)

•This is also a problem

•What about the talented students?

•Only 5 % of the variation between pupils’ performances can be explained by the schools in Finland (Pisa)

•Finnish girls perform exceptionally well. Boys did very well, too (Gender gap especially in reading skills, literacy)

•Do we treat girls and boys equally in schools?

Our school system produces very small variation

(successful students- the least successful students)

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Evaluation programme for General Upper Secondary school in Finland (by Finnish Education evaluation Coucil)

Based on assessment of student achievement (mathematics, mother tongue,art, literature)

Students acquire skills and knowledge in order to move on to further studies ( matriculation examination).

Students need also learning to learn- skill in their further lives.

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

Evaluation programme for vocational education (by Finnish Education Evaluation Coucil)

Provides support for education providers and developers, political decisionmaking and educational goal-setting.

Topics like structures of qualifications, co-operation between upper secondary education and vocational education, curricular system, learning in the workplace, evidence-based assessment, adult learning, equality in learning, national learning outcomes…

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

National evaluations

System evaluations Situation evaluations

Thematic evaluations

-strucutre of qualifications…

-the state of swedish-speaking education, the state of basic education…

-learning in the workplace,

basic education in art,

T A M P E R E E N K A U P U N K I – T A L O U S - J A S T R A T E G I A R Y H M ÄTietotuotanto ja laadunarviointi

”You don´t follow the social reality

by evaluation,

You create it! ”

prof. Peter Dahler- Larssen