From looking at our schools (LAOS) to whole school evaluation -management, leadership and learning (WSE-MLL): the evolution of inspection in irish schools over the past decade |
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Authors: | Gerry McNamara Joe O’Hara |
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Institution: | (1) School of Education Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland |
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Abstract: | This paper attempts to provide an overview of the key assumptions underpinning the Whole School
Evaluation (WSE) inspection policy developed in Ireland since 2003. Beginning with a documentary analysis the paper argues that the
capacity to generate useful self evaluative data in schools was seen as being at the heart of the model of school evaluation
proposed by the Department of Education and Science. It further suggests that while the rhetoric of self evaluative capacity
building has been key to the emerging system the lack of a meaningful structural response within schools means that this has
remained aspirational. The latter part of the paper seeks to test this contention, examining the research base in the area
of school evaluation and inspection in Ireland and conducting a number of targeted focus groups with school leaders. For the
most part the initial contention is confirmed although there is a sense that there may be significant new pressures emerging
in the near future that could cause the whole system to be revisited and perhaps be radically overhauled. An initial indicator
of these potential changes can be seen in the emergence of a refined WSE Management, Leadership and Learning inspection policy
which has yet to be widely implemented. |
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