International Forum “EURASIAN EDUCATIONAL DIALOGUE” Yaroslavl (Russia), April 17-19, 2013

1. The use of the Cito Monitoring and Evaluation System for school self-improvement in The Netherlands • International Forum“EURASIAN EDUCATIONAL DIALOGUE”Yaroslavl (Russia), April 17-19, 2013 • Henk A. Moelands • Director Cito International • Cito, The Netherlands

2. Quality Assurance • Internationally • PISA • ESLC • ……. • Nationally • PPON (NAEP) • School leaving exams • …….

3. Quality Assurance • Internationally • PISA • ESLC • ……. • ……. • Nationally • PPON (NAEP) • School leaving exams • ……. • ……. Leaguetables Accountability

4. Quality Assurance SchooI improvement • Internationally • PISA • ESLC • ……. • ……. • Nationally • PPON (NAEP) • School leaving exams • ……. • …….

5. Quality Assurance SchooI improvement • Internationally • PISA • ESLC • ……. • ……. • Nationally • PPON (NAEP) • School leaving exams • ……. • ……. Monitoring and Evaluation System

6. Purpose A tool for teacher and school to monitor in a reliable and systematic way: - the progress of individual learners throughout their (primary) school career - (aspects of) the quality of the school Recently Provide school boards with information about the learning outcomes of their schools

7. Content Consists of: • a coherent set of nationally standardized tests (paper based and computer based) for longitudinal assessment of a pupil’s achievement throughout primary education • a system for manual or automated registration of pupil progress

8. Instruments

9. Testing component • administration • marking and interpretation • Diagnostic component • collecting additional data • identifying specific problems • drawing up remedial plan • Remedial component • carrying out remedial plan • evaluating remedial plan Working procedure

10. The Dutch education system

11. Monitoring at individual level Grade 1 Grade 2 common scale Grade 3 e.g. length Grade 8 11

12. Measuring technique (IRT) Allows: • Test results that differ in content, difficulty and number of items canbe compared • Monitoring over years with different tests • Position of pupil on scale to be compared with national reference group

13. Reporting Manually or with the help of a computer program • For each individual • For each class • For the school as a whole

14. PMS: Classroom related

15. Pupil Report

17. Ability scale Mathematics

18. PMS: School related

19. School self-evaluation • School Improvement • Accountability • - Inspectorate • - Publications of results in school plan e.g.

20. Cross section

21. Trend analysis (cohorts)

22. Trend analysis (grades)

23. PMS: School board related

24. Monitor

25. School board overview of testing period

26. School board trend overview

27. In conclusion (1) Cito’s Monitoring and Evaluation System is: • A practical tool for teachers and schools to systematically monitor the quality of education. Recentlyalsofor school boards • A system for (automatic) registration and reporting on 4 levels: • Individual pupil • Grade or cohort • School • Across schools

28. In conclusion (2) • 95% of the Dutch primary schools use at least one of the tests of the system for purposes of self-evaluation • Head teachers in the Netherlands regard self-evaluation as a useful and instructive undertaking • But: accompanying process take a lot of time and causes many to hesitate when it comes to actually carrying out a self-evaluation.

29. In conclusion (3) Pleasebeaware: Purposesmay change over time

31. In conclusion (3) Pleasebeaware: Purposesmay change over time

32. спасибо (henk.moelands@cito.nl)