For 22 years, every year with the arrival of spring, the Ministry of Education publishes indicators of high schools (known in the jargon IVAL and available here). “The idea is not to make a ranking of institutions, on the contrary, we publish indicators give a more detailed reading and just the simple fact that a classification based on the success rate bac “ emphasize the services of the ministry as seasonal jingle, power point to support.
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But then what these indicators, when, in addition, the Minister of Education announced that it wants more social mix in schools, which requires less freedom of choice left to the families? In this context, why even publish these data? Confrontation three points of view.
“These indicators reflect the state of social diversity of institutions”
Catherine Moisan, Director of Evaluation , forecasting and performance (DEPP) of the Ministry of Education.
“It’s a big job we do. You have to look in detail, taking time to understand. Our indicators can prevent classify schools according to the success rate in the single tray. This alone, often repeated by the press, does not mean anything. Many other factors have an impact on student achievement exam: social origin, sex, age … Just like the structure of school attended: the privileged backgrounds of student grouping bound to have an impact positive results in the tray. We calculate the result expected rate for a high school, that is to say by comparing it to that of high schools that resemble it sociologically.
“Our indicators fully reflect the state of the social mix institutions in France even if it is not the primary objective. They could also well be used in the diagnostic phase of the state of social diversity launched by the Minister. “
” It says nothing about the quality of life within ‘ a high school “
Paul Raoult, president of the Parents’ Association (CIPF)
” What are these indicators ? A nothing … Or let’s say they have a very limited interest that boils down to two or three days, during which parents, teachers and students will have a look. Certainly, the Department uses criteria less cartoonish than just success rate in the bin. But the indicators say nothing about the quality of life in an institution! Why not look at the magnitude schedule schedules of students, the length of the lunch break, the existence or not of a house high school students? Or instead devoted to cultural and community activities: the Ministry does not take into account those elements, or they change the lives of students
“The indicators as published today. therefore of interest only for teaching staff, to help them improve service to their users. But on the ground, I do not even feel that the teaching staff are using it. If that were the case, these indicators would be on the agenda in institutional boards (involving a panel of teachers, administrative staff, representatives of parents …). From my experience I can tell you that we very rarely talk about in these meetings. “
” Why not look at the developments over the past twenty years? “
Philippe Tournier, general secretary of the union of school leaders (SNPDEN)
” These data are not used for anything. The press seizes every year, but this is the only … What I mean by this is that, within the institution, it is not used as it could. The Department publishes these indicators for over twenty years: it is rare that we have a long afterwards. Why not look at the trends over the long term? To my knowledge, the department did not.
“The data are released into the wild without tracking. The results of their school are good or bad, headteachers find themselves alone in the raw data … So it might be interesting, for example, to work with them when the results are not good. There is another problem, but then I always say, this is the major contradiction in the message sent by Education. By publishing these indicators, the organization recognizes that all institutions do not have the same performance all things being equal. And at the same time, the Ministry repeat families they do not have to decide on the establishment for their child to ensure social mix … We must choose. “
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