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The Outstanding School Award as
a Quality School Culture Movement
Cheung Wing Ming
Chair, OSA Dissemination Working Group
Debriefing Session for Schools
on 2 February 2002
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Quality School Education
Enhancement of Education Quality
Development of Quality School Culture
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What kind of capacity a school should have in order to meet the mega-trend and related challenges ahead?
• Responsiveness• Adaptability• Proactiveness
through continuous self reflection, self learningand self renewal.
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Objectives of OSA
1. Recognise and encourage outstanding school practices.
2. Disseminate outstanding and good school practices.
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Objectives of OSA
3. Develop quality school culture in which schools engage in continuous self reflection / evaluation, self learning and self renewal based on their own unique conditions.
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OSA as a Two-stage Quality School Culture Movement
Stage 1
Identification and award of outstanding and good practices.
Stage 2
Dissemination of outstanding and good practicesfor development of quality school culture in the long run.
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OSA Framework
• Developed from related literature of SBM and Effective School.
• Made reference to QAI framework.
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– OSA as self initiated certification process – benchmarking
– Not external audit – evidence provided by schools
– Not comparison among schools
Nature of OSA
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Award Framework
Management and Organization (25 indicators)
Teaching and Learning
(25 indicators)
Students’ Attainment ( 8 indicators)
Support for Students and School Ethos (32 indicators)
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Design Parameter
• In line with education reform, emphasis on all-round development of students.
• All criteria and expected standards should be set to facilitate school-based management.
• Emphasize self-set school goals, and standards, as well as self-evaluation for school’s self-learning and continuous development.
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• Expected standards of excellent practices should emphasize more on process standards in recognising outstanding school practices.
• Emphasize on value-addedness and transferred value-addedness.
• Adjudication of the nominations is criterion-referenced.
• Continuous review of grade descriptors as quality education culture takes root.
• Emphasis should be given to schools’ unique conditions and needs.
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Level of Performance
• Outstanding
• Good
• Satisfactory
• Insufficient evidence for judgment
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Procedures
Stage One – Submission of evidence
Stage Two – Initial assessment
Stage Three – School visit
Stage Four – Final selection
Stage Five – Announcement of result and award presentation
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Quality Assurance Mechanism
a) Consistency building before adjudication process.
b) Consistency building during adjudication process.
c) Cross-domain consistency.
d) International Consultants as QA advisers.
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Winning Schools
OSA SchoolsDomain 1 – Management and Organization
Oi Kwan Road Baptist Church Lui Kowk Pat Fong Kindergarten愛群道浸信會呂郭碧鳳幼稚園
Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School沙田崇真中學
Tai Kok Tsui Catholic Primary School (Hoi Fan Road)大角嘴天主教小學 ( 海帆道 )
West Island School西島學校
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Winning Schools
OSA SchoolsDomain 3 – Support for Students and School Ethos
Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School仁愛堂田家炳中學
Domain 4 – Students’ Attainment
Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin)沙田蘇浙公學
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Winning Schools
COM SchoolsDomain 1 – Management and Organization
Hang Seng School of Commerce恒生商學書院Law Ting Pong Secondary School羅定邦中學Po Leung Kuk Luk Hing Too Primary School保良局陸慶濤小學Po Leung Kuk Wu Chung College保良局胡忠中學SKH Ka Fuk Wing Chun Primary School聖公會嘉福榮真小學
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Winning Schools
COM SchoolsDomain 2 – Teaching and LearningHong Chi Morninghill School, Tsui Lam匡智翠林晨崗學校Hong Kong Ling Liang Church Kindergarten香港靈糧堂幼稚園Po Leung Kuk Chee Jing Yin Primary School (A.M.)保良局朱正賢小學 ( 上午校 )Po Leung Kuk Law’s Foundation School保良局羅氏信託學校SKH Ka Fuk Wing Chun Primary School聖公會嘉福榮真小學SKH Wing Chun Primary School聖公會榮真小學Tai Po Old Market Public School (P.M.)大埔舊墟公立學校 ( 下午校 )
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Winning Schools
COM SchoolsDomain 3 – Support for Students and School Ethos
Clementi Secondary School金文泰中學
Lam Tin Methodist Primary School藍田循道衛理小學
Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School沙田崇真中學
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Winning Schools
COM SchoolsDomain 4 – Students’ Attainment
Belilios Public School庇理羅士女子中學
Po Leung Kuk Luk Hing Too Primary School保良局陸慶濤小學
Yan Chai Hospital No. 2 Secondary School仁濟醫院第二中學
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Lesson Learnt
1) General good performance of school – gradual progression towards excellence.
2) Need to put more effort in school planning• Maintenance plan
• Development plan
3) Need to put more effort in self evaluation and learning for further action – learning school
• Meaning of self-evaluation
• Technology
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4) Adjudication process – submission of evidence• Evidence not fit grade descriptors• Substantial volume of evidence
5) Correlation between grade descriptors.
6) Sector-specific conditions in the present stage of development of school education, e.g. planning, student support.
7) The need to further develop OSA Scheme from a more holistic perspective.
8) The need to further develop the concept of Certification of Merit.
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Way Forward
– Dissemination of outstanding practices and lesson learnt
– Dissemination activities at 4 levelsa) School sector (e.g. Feb 2, 2002 Seminar and
March 16, 2002 Conference)
b) Parents
c) Education Department’s colleagues
d) Community