SUMMER SCHOOL
Educational Accountability and Evaluation:
Theory and Effective International Practices
Dates:
2-6 July 2018

Venue:
UCL Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL

Course leader:
Dr. Melanie Ehren

International guest speakers:
  • Dr. Louis Meuleman (UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration and European Commission)
  • Dr. Jacqueline Baxter (OU)
  • Dr. Mary Richardson (IOE)
  • Prof. Daniel Muijs (Ofsted)

This seminar is hosted by the UCL Centre for Educational Evaluation and Accountability (www.educationalevaluation.net)

This one-week summer school offers valuable insights into the aims of educational accountability and evaluation and encourages a questioning and critical stance on accountability and evaluation across international contexts. The course is taught by a number of renowned international speakers who will introduce you to the latest insights on:

  • Conceptualizing accountability and system reform
  • Accountability and trust: how do they relate to improve learning outcomes?
  • School effectiveness and school improvement
  • Effects and side effects of school accountability and evaluation
  • Validity and reliability of measuring school effectiveness
  • Where next for external accountability in a decentralised system?
This summer school is for:
Inspectors, professional and technical staff working in the field of educational evaluation and accountability, both in the UK and internationally; e.g. school inspectors, Regional Schools Commissioners, senior (system) leaders involved in (the development of) peer review, and school evaluation.

Previous participants describe the summer school as:

"The course really dovetailed well with my professional development needs and is so pertinent to my current role. Great to have the theoretical underpinning."

"The thinking about purpose and dimensions of evaluation and governance and particularly validity and school effectiveness were fundamental. It was so helpful to be able to set inspection and school evaluation in a theoretical framework, backed up with the literature. In one word: ‘fabulous’."