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Does the new inspection framework trade off reliability against validity?

Jan 15, 2020 | Category: leadership

Yesterday I saw a thread on Twitter from headteacher Stuart Lock on the pros and cons of the new inspection framework:https://twitter.com/StuartLock/status/1216475275514523648?s=20In it he discusses t...

#Ofsted #reliability #validity #Amy Finch #Stuart Lock

What do Ofsted reports reveal about the way schools are being inspected under the new framework?

Oct 17, 2019 | Category: leadership

Ofsted's new inspection framework went live at the beginning of September and the first reports have now been published. Anecdotally, I've heard whispers from two different inspections about the sorts...

#Ofsted

How can school inspection get what it wants?

Feb 10, 2017 | Category: leadership

I read a great piece by Dr Becky Allen in Schools Week this morning on inherent unreliability of school inspections. In it she makes the point that human beings are incapable of making reliable, high...

#Ofsted #accountability #Becky Allen #school inspection

Why 'triple marking' is wrong (and not my fault)

Nov 29, 2014 | Category: leadership

You can't blame celebrity edubloggers for teachers' unreasonable workloads - Albert Einstein In his indefatigable efforts to get schools and teachers to recognise that much of what is done in the name...

#Ofsted #marking #Triple impact marking #Mike Cladingbowl #workload

What if we started trusting teachers?

Nov 22, 2014 | Category: leadership

Who would not rather trust and be deceived? - Eliza Cook The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. - Henry Lewis Stimson I've been out of the classroom for just under a year now. In...

#Ofsted #accountability #surplus model #Grace Murray Hopper #trust

Perverse incentives and how to counter them

Jun 09, 2014 | Category: leadership

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev Back in the good old days when the great unwashed could simply be shipped off to the colonies with nary a second...

#Ofsted #Mike Cladingbowl #Chip and Dan Heath #perverse incentives #Pupil Premium #Rolf Dobrelli

Of cabbages, round tables and kings

Nov 03, 2012 | Category: leadership

Back in the day King Arthur had a problem. Bickering barons made a great deal of fuss about who was the biggest cheese. When they sat down together for a friendly chat things soon came to head becaus...

#Ofsted #Exams #Headteachers' Roundtable #King Arthur