How to evaluate the effectiveness of your department
Read on for details of 8 key actions to take when evaluating your subject department, with tips from our experts on analysing results, conducting pupil voice surveys and creating an action plan.
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Analyse and evaluate your department’s results
Your analysis will depend on the measurements you use for attainment and progress over time.
You can compare pupil attainment data year on year, and with other schools. Your analysis will also help you see where individual teachers are being most effective.
If you use teacher assessment as part of the progress measure when analysing pupil progress, triangulate this with work scrutiny and moderated work analysis, to help make sure you can be confident the analysis is correct.
Read more about using data to support school improvement.
Use pupil voice
It's important to communicate with pupils about their experience of your subject.
Use pupil interviews to explore their views, and find out:
- If you’re covering all aspects of the curriculum sufficiently from your pupils' perspective
- Whether they enjoy the subject and are being challenged
Pupils' books and data Talking to
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- Annual schedule for school self-evaluation (primary)
- Formula for evaluating the quality of teaching
- How to plan effective self-evaluation across your trust
- How to use a standardised school-grading system across your trust: case study
- Key performance indicators (KPIs) for schools and trusts
- Staff questionnaires: behaviour management