In a startling move, educators across Canada are about to tackle this – develop objective ways to actually measure how well a school promotes creativity, social skills, citizenship, a positive school climate and students’ physical and mental health.
If they pull it off, Ontario could become the first jurisdiction to offer a full snapshot in living colour of how well each school serves the whole child, beyond just teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. The provincial government will help fund the research over the next several years as scholars examine how to measure what seems the unmeasurable...
People For Education is launching the project ... which will include broad public consultations on the importance of measuring beyond the 3 R’s, and whether a school should be responsible for promoting health, creativity, citizenship, and social-emotional skills, let alone have its performance on these measured and reported to the public.
http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2014/09/01/back_to_school_looking_beyond_the_3_rs.html
The push to measure `wellbeing` is global.
A CONsultation along similar lines to our so-called National Debate back in 2002:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/158359/0042897.pdf
I went to a sparsely attended meeting at my son's primary school where we completed one of these. With hindsight, the non-attenders had the right idea...
Same outcome based nonsense everywhere:
ReplyDeletehttp://edu.gov.on.ca/eng/about/renewedVision.pdf
Oh look - the man who put a kilt on the Stiglitz report and quietly restructured government and public service delivery in Scotland punts "The Scottish System" in Canada.
http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/publications/2011/more-than-gdp--measuring-what-matters
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Performance/scotPerforms
http://www.home-education.biz/forum/general-discussion/14033-the-overarching-purpose-of-the-scottish-government.html#post52353
http://www.dal.ca/faculty/management/news-events/news/2013/02/07/scottish_government___independence_lecture_series.html