1st Edition
Benchmarking for School Improvement A Practical Guide for Comparing and Achieving Effectiveness
By Anthony Kelly
Copyright 2001
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Benchmarking is a term used by the DfEE and OFSTED to describe a school's performance against a national or local average. This useful guide helps senior management teams of schools or colleges, to undertake their own benchmarking, with the aim of increasing effectiveness and improvement. Tony Kelly looks at the different types of benchmarking and what should be benchmarked and why. He discusses... Read more
Introduction 1. Introduction to Effectiveness and Benchmarking 2. Critical Processes: Why and What to Benchmark 3. Internal and External Non-competitive Benchmarking: Forming a Consortium 4. Forming a Benchmarking Team Within an Organisation and Collecting Data 5. Making an Effectiveness Comparison 6. Redesign and Targeting for Improvement 7. Target-Setting Tables; Conclusion
Biography
Tony Kelly works at the University of Cambridge, School of Education. He was formerly a Headteacher, where he was involved in developing new systems of school governance. His academic interests include effectiveness in management and organisations
'Critics would say that it comes close to saying that if it can't be measured, it's not improvement. And what about context ...? Kelly defends himself on both counts. Schools into benchmarking will want to read him.' - Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement
