Self-evaluation

An Enterprising Approach to Self-Evaluation

This self-evaluation resource helps you to reflect on your centre’s performance and plan for improvement. It encourages an enterprising approach to evaluating enterprise in education, with options to focus on other generic or specific aspects of performance.

The resource is based on quality indicators from How Good Is Our School? and the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence. It features links to a wide range of relevant national resources and key websites to help you to reflect on performance, identify supporting evidence and implement next steps for improvement.

Using the self-evaluation resource

You will be taken through an enterprising and interactive self-evaluation process, with an emphasis on action planning and impact on the experience of children and young people. The resource aims to stimulate professional dialogue and promote engagement with stakeholders. It provides an easily used, flexible format for recording key strengths and achievements, identifying aspects for improvement and planning next steps.

Tip: Before using the resource for the first time, we recommend that you watch the short introductory video. You will then be ready to download the self-evaluation resource and the accompanying User Guide.

As a result, HMIE published 'How good is our school? (HGIOS) Quality Indicators in Enterprise in Education' in 2004.

In 2008, HMIE carried out a review of Enterprise in Education and produced the Improving Enterprise in Education report. An important part of the report is the Signpost for Improvement, which gives schools guidance for future developments in enterprise in education. Among the main recommendations was one relating to the need for more systematic and regular self-evaluation.

To assist schools and centres with this, a new interactive self-evaluation resource was included on CD-ROM, as an integral part of the report.

An Enterprising Approach to Self-Evaluation is an enhanced and downloadable version of this. It can be customised to self-evaluate any aspects of a school’s or centre’s performance.

Strands and Practices - Supporting curriculum areas and subjects

This two-part self-evaluation tool focuses on learning through curriculum areas and subjects. It was developed to enable teachers to carry out an initial review of how they perceive their teaching reflects the four strands of Enterprise in Education.

Word file: Strands and Practices - Supporting curriculum areas and subjects (73 KB)

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Professional reflection on Enterprise in Education

This paper was designed to assist you in the process of considering and evaluating present enterprise in education practice. Use it to help you build on your achievements in enterprise in education in the context of Curriculum for Excellence.

 PDF file: Focusing on Enterprise in Education: A paper for professional reflection (2.6MB)

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Improving Outcomes for Learners Through Self-Evaluation

This document supplements the advice given in 'How good is our school? (HGIOS) - third edition' and 'The Child at the Centre - second edition' which set out comprehensive quality frameworks and provide helpful advice on the process of improvement through self-evaluation.

 PDF file: Improving Outcomes for Learners Through Self-Evaluation (242 KB)

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Improving our Curriculum through Self-Evaluation

This document supplements the advice given in the third edition of 'How good is our school?' (HMIE, 2007) and the second edition of 'The Child at the Centre' (HMIE, 2007) which set out comprehensive quality frameworks and provide helpful advice on the process of improvement through self-evaluation.

 PDF file: Improving our Curriculum through Self-Evaluation (218 KB)

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