Poster #7 - The External Evaluation of Italian Schools: Accountability or Learning? Evaluators' Perceptions

• In Event: 43.081 - MTCC Poster Session Nine
  In Poster Session: 43.081-1 - Contemporary Issues in Educational Evaluation 2

Abstract

In Italy, the external evaluation has been introduced by the National Evaluation System of schools into 2014/2015 school year and managed by INVALSI. The present paper deepens what is the main purpose of the external evaluation of school and in which way it has been perceived by the external evaluators, according to their own experience. After describing the procedures of the external evaluation visit, the present paper shows the results from a survey administered into 2016/2017 school year to 209 evaluators after they had performed the visit of 370 Italian schools. Results underline that the aims perceived by the evaluators are learning, vertical accountability, and social accountability.

Authors

• Donatella Poliandri, National Institute for the Educational Evaluation of Instruction and Training, Italy

• Michela Freddano, Istituto nazionale per la valutazione del sistema educativo di istruzione e di formazione

• Stefania Sette, Istituto nazionale per la valutazione del sistema educativo di istruzione e di formazione