National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation

1. National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation Shaala Siddhi An Initiative Towards School Improvement Prof. Pranati Panda Professor and Head School Standards and Evaluation Unit National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) New Delhi-110016 pranatipanda@nuepa.org, pranatipanda@gmail.com

2. School Quality, Effectiveness and Improvement • Schools as institutional space for learning and expected to translate all policy changes, • School as a delivery point, • Schools Must Change -Must Attract – Regain Public Trust •‘Transforming ’,’Improving’ and ‘lifting up’ a school isn’t easy, but it can be done incrementally in a sustainable manner’

3. Why School Standards and Evaluation ? • It is universally recognized that school evaluation is a fundamental necessity for improvement of School quality • There is evidence available across the countries that high performing schools have school evaluation or inspection practices in place • Empowers each school to understand its own performance ,reflect on their own practices –so as to embark on a journey of continuous self improvement

4. What is School Evaluation ? School evaluation refers to evaluating the individual school-its performance in a holistic and continuous manner- to identify its strength and areas for improvement

5. ‘School Evaluation’ for ‘School Improvement’ ‘The overarching policy objectives of ShaalaSiddhi is to ensure that school evaluation contributes to the improvement of learners outcomes through improved school practices’ ‘School evaluation is the means and School improvement is the goal’

6. How of School Evaluation ? Methodology and Instrument Seven Key Domains and 46 Core Standards • Core Standards that address the most significant elements of the respective domains • Use of Core Standards for evaluation (written by using descriptors in an incremental manner at three levels) •

7. Key Domains and Core Standards 7

8. SALIENT FEATURES OF SCHOOL STANDARDS AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK

9. School Evaluation and Improvement Process

10. Key Domains and Core standards The SSE framework comprises Seven ‘Key Domains’ as the significant criteria for evaluating performance of schools. Each ‘Key Domain’ has a set of ‘Core Standards’ that address the most significant element of the respective domains 10

11. Structure of Key Domain 11

12. APPROACHES TO SCHOOL EVALUATION

13. School Evaluation Dashboard

14. IT Enabled platform for Shaala Siddhi www.shallasiddhi.nuepa.org usse@nuepa.org

16. User Types 1. State User 2. District User 3. Block User 4. Cluster User 5. Village User 6. School User

18. States contextualised on Shaala Siddhi – Framework DELHI MADHYA PRADESH MAHARASTRA KERALA TELAGANA

19. Improving our Schools …..to transform themselves as high performing Schools • Self Improvement and Self Engagement of Schools in a guided manner • Understand the current context and practices • Defined vision of schools • Identify their strength and opportunities for improvement • Priorities their action for improvement in a directional manner • Collaborative endeavor to transform our schools as an ideal school 19

20. Schools Do Make a Difference