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Intelligent Accountability
We believe in a rigorous and credible accountability system which delivers excellence for our
young people by:
assisting schools and academies to continuously improve
giving parents accurate pictures of their local schools and academies
enabling providers to better understand their schools and academies in order to
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enabling accurate system review for government to inform spending priorities
The high stakes nature of the current accountability frameworks has created a culture in schools
which restricts the rate of improvement we need and deters high calibre school leaders from
seeking headship. Inspection processes are flawed and the use of data measures too simplistic
given the consequences for falling below progress and attainment targets. Our education
system has become more orientated towards compliance than innovation; more preoccupied
with short-term gains than deep level improvement. This has caused serious damage to the
credibility of the inspection service with parents, providers and professionals. We believe this is
unhealthy.
Whilst we welcome recent clarifications to the current OFSTED framework and the move to the
new Progress 8 measure , there is still much further to go to restore credibility, reduce
inconsistency, mitigate against the damaging effects of a the high stakes involved, and ensure
that high calibre school leaders are motivated and utilised.
Judgement based accountability
There is a need to re-engineer away from inspection (an historical review of the effectiveness of
a school) to a continual quality assurance system. This will necessitate:
Executive Headship and Headship training involving quality assurance.
All schools and academies to have a mandatory involvement in quality assurance
process.
Peer Review to be a fundamental part of the process.
Peer Review to be validated by HMI as a critical friend.
A re-engineering on these lines will prevent schools from getting into cycles of underperformance which are currently only picked up after the event. The involvement of HMI will
ensure a dissemination of best practice in quality assurance work throughout the system.
Data based accountability
With the exception of refining and ironing out any residual flaws in the new Progress 8 measure,
performance measures should not be amended for the period of the next parliament in order to
ensure stability.
The EBacc measure should be dropped as it is redundant with the new Progress 8 and it detracts
from the National Baccalaureate development.
In order to avoid the continuing over-simplification of data such that important details are lost,
schools and academies should be required to provide a standardised annual data commentary
on their website accounting for their performance outcomes and trends over time. This will
facilitate intelligent evaluation of performance against a range of criteria. The commentary
should include a statement of action against areas of relative concern.
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