Benchmarking for school improvement
Kelly, Anthony (2001) Benchmarking for school improvement, London, UK, Routledge Falmer, 170pp.
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In educational management, benchmarking is a term often used to describe a school’s performance against a national or localised average. This is not the sense in which the process has been used to great effect in the commercial sector, where benchmarking is a comparison against the best, not against the rest. In this, the first book to consider comparative benchmarking in an educational context, Kelly proposes that measuring effectiveness against a national median performance, as opposed to against another organisation which is acknowledged to be effective, is counter productive.
‘Benchmarking for School Improvement’ develops comparative benchmarking as a tool for self-assessment in schools and colleges. It is a step-by-step guide to forming profitable partnerships with other organisations and is based upon what national and international school effectiveness research tells us makes for a successful school. It is a practical guide to ‘doing’ benchmarking, linking the process to target-setting as a means of being able to gauge self-improvement.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBNs: | 0415256666 (hardback) |
| Keywords: | Benchmarking, school improvement, school effectiveness, performance, target setting |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Education > Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness |
| Item ID: | 9783 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2004 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:24 |
| Contributors: | Kelly, Anthony (Author) |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Routledge Falmer |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/9783 |
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