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January 09, 2008

A toolkit for the evaluation of ICT in schools

Schools are complex organisations. That means that to do them justice through evaluation (be it external-, self- or peer-evaluation) there are many things to take into account. Many inspectorates have adopted a formalised procedure and methodologies to ensure reliable and fair evaluations of schools. Such procedures by the way cannot only be of help when carrying out external evaluations, but could mutatis mutandis also be used when schools carry out self- and peer-evalution (material for a future post maybe). When carrying out external evaluations with inspectors from different countries with a diversity of responsibilities, experience and mandates, having such formalised methologies in place is even more important.

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January 08, 2008

European inspectors evaluate ICT in Dutch schools

Can you ask inspectors of education from different countries in Europe to walk into a school and evaluate the use of ICT in that school and then expect them to agree on the conclusions? This is the experiment that is carried out in workpackage 6 of the P2V project. Inspectors from Sweden, Scotland, France, Catalonia, Lithuania and The Netherlands will visit some 25 schools and see whether a common evaluation methodology can be adopted to assess the use of ICT in schools.

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May 22, 2007

P2V to kick off in Copenhagen

P2V – Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation - will have its kick-off meeting on 21-22 February 2007 in Copenhagen. The event is organised in conjunction for the Policy and Innovation Committee meeting on 22-23 February 2007. The meeting will bring together the nine partners of the project. P2V aims to apply the peer learning methodologies developed in the P2P project to the topics of media literacy, digital content and new learning environments.

In Copenhagen, partners will draw a roadmap of the tasks and activities planned in the project for the months ahead. Activities will include at least six peer learning visits, testing and validating the methodologies used in P2P and applying these methodologies on a wider scale. In the P2P project, policy-makers, educators and inspectorates from six countries were involved in peer review visits and the P2V project will seek to further test and apply in a broader way the policy review and ICT evaluation frameworks developed in P2P.

Also among the activities to be launched in Copenhagen is the planning of several workshops for all the partners in the network, a European conference, and other dissemination activities to give added-value (valorise) the project results.

Partners in the P2V project include EUN Partnership (coordinator), the Dutch Inspectorate of Education, Regional Training Unit Northern Ireland, the French and Lithuanian Ministries of Education, the Education department of Catalonia, and ENIS school networks in Denmark and Austria. There are two non funded partners: the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Directorate for Education and Training Department for Educational Development in Norway.

http://p2p.eun.org


January 19, 2007

Inspection peer reviews

Partners in the P2V projects dealing with the Inspection strand of the P2V project will post stories here