Henrique Medina High School, in Braga, and the grouping of Schools Dr. Francisco Campos Henriques, in Vila Nova de Foz Coa, were entitled to a “bounty” of the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) of Nuno Crato. But were not the only ones. A total of 148 clusters of schools or not grouped received for this academic year that began just over a month, a time credit for being particularly “effective”, these hours which may run in different ways.
‘s called “Indicator educational effectiveness – EFI” that the ministry uses and allows you to assign as premium credits hours that schools generate, for example, highlight teachers to support student groups with special difficulties or to have two teachers in the classroom, in certain disciplines.
That is, the MEC has always refused to do rankings of schools based on student test scores on exams (limited to delivering the media data bases that allow build them). But do not stop doing your comparisons between establishments, to reward those who stand out. And it also focuses primarily … the students’ grades.
how it does not exempt from criticism – in March, the School Board considered, in an opinion that this measure excludes “those schools most in need of reinforcement hours to support their students, focusing on schools already have good results. ” More: it is contrary to “the principles that should be respected by the public school, in order to reduce the asymmetries” between schools.
But what the law provides that it is: guardianship schools compares with the national average in exams (are taken into account 18 subjects); assesses progress from one year to the next, in the country and in each school as well as the differences between the ratings that students obtained in the tests and those who over the years have been assigned by teachers.
The current rules are defined in order of June 2013. The formula used to calculate the MEC assigning credit to the “effective component of education” (10, 20 or 30 hours, “depending on the level of overrun reached”) is complex. But the logic is this: only those who receive “exceeds”.
Credits go to the North
a note “explaining” about the methodology that follows, MEC announced that 148 units organic to “overcome one or more of the required criteria” had this year right 10, 20 or 30 hours of credit, “which makes a” full 2830 assigned hours (corresponding to approximately 129 hours, 22 hours). ” It’s more than last year, note, when assigned 2740 hours.
With regard to the criterion measuring the variation of test results from one year to another, compared to what was the change at the national level, there were 244 schools or groups who staked out positively, “and noted a variation on the average ratings of examination than the national average variation “. Of these, 118 “showed a very significant improvement, surpassing the levels of statistical evidence of improvement criteria established for this,” says the guidance. That is, received credit for this.
There are still 33 clusters of schools and schools that registered not grouped exam results above the national average, exceeding the predefined thresholds for assigning credit. And 25 revealed a degree of agreement between the internal notes and exams enough to award credit.
The data provided do not identify all 148 groups distinguished in the academic year 2013
14 – 80 only. The list provided only included those who saw their rankings improve in a statistically significant between 2012 and 2013 and of these, those who remain with the same constitution they had in 2011/12 (where the school system has undergone many changes with aggregations of schools and the creation of mega-groups).
Almost half (38) of schools or groups that can be identified are in the North. Algarve are only three. Most faculty have stable – with most of the teachers in the frame.
schools in such clusters are not necessarily well placed in the rankings made on the basis of examinations – Secondary School S. Pedro da Cova, in Porto, for example, is part of a group that was entitled to credits, but is 517. Place in the ranking of the PUBLIC and has a difference of more than four values ??between the average internal note (given by teachers) and exams.
Moreover, the MEC defends those who criticize this measure saying, rightly, that not all the criteria it uses to assign credits focus on student outcomes in a given year.
a note sent to the PUBLIC, explains that there is “a criterion in credit EFI allowing just benefit the schools that, although not having good results are to succeed in these efforts to improve.” Thus, “it is possible, for example, an elementary school with 200 students to perform finals get credit when climbing its normalized average of 1 to 1.20.”
“What we want to highlight,” when referring to these schools in the databases provided to the media, “it is not only schools with better known or more notes that are doing a good job,” continues the ministry. “There are also many schools that may be disadvantaged contexts, but they are improving outcomes and deserve support.”
Read more in the supplement of 48 pages about the rankings with the print edition of Saturday.
Special Rankings in http://www.publico.pt/ranking-das-escolas
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th year – Ranking 6.
th year – Ranking 9.
th year – Ranking the secondary
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