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Information for Accountability
EDUCATION MANAGEMENT BY RESULTS:
SCHOOL REPORT CARDS
• Alcyone Vasconcelos [Saliba]
[email protected]• Washington, DC - November 2OO3
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my objective today is ...
...to present the Parana school report card:
• a simple and effective tool for accountability, transparency and constituency building
• applied to basic education
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Boletim da Escola
Objectives:
• ...to generate & register information
• ...to disseminate information
• ...to allow information to be used to improve schools
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student achievement
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student flow
school characteristics
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parent survey
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student opinions
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school principal opinions
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student achievement
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student flow
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school characteristics
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parent opinion
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parent opinion (continued)
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student opinion
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school principal opinion
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achievement levels
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1.3 million copies for 2 thousand schools (about 1 per student)
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copies sent directly to residential address of teachers & headmasters
copies distributed to parents invited to workshops
copies given to teachers in all teacher training activities
Parana Boletim da Escola
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School Report Card
• information is relative – compares school average with municipal & state averages; allows comparisons across time
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School Report Card
• information is directed to schools – parents and professionais (in particular, headmasters)
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School Report Card
• information is public – development followed by large distribution & dissemination program
> www.pr.gov.br/cie/boletim/boletim.html
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School Report Card
• information is available to management (all levels) – relative situation of school becomes parameter for allocation of additional, discretionary resources (time, attention, $)
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What does one need?
• data (to generate information)
• terms of reference
• staff
• management choice: focus on results
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Management Choice
Focus on results -- definition
• All children in school (come & stay), learning, being promoted, completing 11 grades in 11 years
• primary “check point”: schools
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data sources
• school census (every yr)
• student assessment (every other yr)
• household surveys (every yr)
• school surveys (ad hoc)
• parents survey (every yr)
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School Report Card
“Missing link”:
• “forest” = national student learning assessments (grades 4, 8, & 11)
• “fruits” = student progress card
“trees” = School Report Card
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School Report Card
• management tool (not a teaching tool)
• replaced (non existent) inspection
• fostered (non existent) supervision and techincal assistance by pedagogical staff (non-teaching, non-management staff)
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Policy Choice
School improvement projects financed w/:
• existing resources
• additional, earmarked resources, available, on competitive bases, to finance projects defined as priority by central management (or not)
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Policy Choice
grants for school improvement
• teams of teachers, to finance teaching and learning improvement projects
• parents associations, to finance upgrading of facilities
• headmasters to finance maintenance & improvements
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School Report Card
usage is still very limited – novelty, technicalities, culture, politics, etc.
use has limitations – validity, reliability, “snap shot” approach, does not capture processes, etc.
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School Report Card
NOT A PANACEA!
• a tool that allows the practice of management by results, with community participation
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Parana (BR) School Report Card
To learn more, contact:
Alcyone Vasconcelos [Saliba][email protected]
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