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