Re: School Adminsitration/Standardized Testing

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:02:46 +0000, mcdreamteam wrote:

Hi everyone! I'll be studying abroad in Brighton this July, and in
preparation I have to write a paper adressing several questions already
prepared. One of them is to write about the administration positions in
the British school systems. I can't seem to find what exactly they are
(I only have heard of a head master) and what they do! Are there any
equivalents to the administration positions in the US?

Admin and education is not as clearly defined in English schools. Many
headteachers teach and see them selves as lead professional as well as
effectively CEO of the school in management terms. Admin is more
associated with clerical staff and financial administration. The actual
balance varies with the type of school and Local Authority policy. Your
best bet would be to contact an HE institution that provides courses
MSc/MEd etc in Education Management and get the recommended reading list.

Also, I'm asked to write about the standardzed tests in England. I've
found plenty of information on the sats and the GCSE, but I need to
know, are the teachers held responsible for the test results?

Again it varies. In SATs, teacher assessment and tests are completely
separate but both tend to give very similar outcomes. In principle
teachers are accountable for teacher assessment and if it was wildly out
OFSTED would probably comment. For GCSE and other qualifications eg VRQs
and NVQ there are as many arrangements as qualifications (almost). Go to
www.openquals.org.uk for details of all accredited qualifications. In some
cases its 100% terminal exam under controlled conditions and in others
100% teacher assessment with moderation/verification from independent
external sources in a range of different quality assurance procedures. Go
to QCA's web site for details - but its big and there is masses of
documentation. You could easily do a PhD based on the information there.

If so,
is the teacher's pay influenced by the studen'ts results?

Not directly. However if a school gets poor results it could lose money in
several ways. If it fails an OFSTED on poor results it would lose around
£100k a year if a specialist school (Most are). If its results fall
parents might choose to send children to another school and funding
depends on numbers. Losing money means making redundancies or fewer
promotion points etc.

Any help in answering these questions, or maybe some links or ideas of
where I can find some answers would be awesome. Either I'm blind or
this information isn't readily found on the Internet! Thanks everyone
for helping me out!

Its all out there but there is so much of it its sometimes difficult to
see the wood for the trees.

--
Ian
New QCA accredited ICT qualifications
Suitable for primary and secondary schools
www.theINGOTs.org

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