Research and analysis

The quality of school governance: defining and collecting metrics

Research into whether it is possible to design and collect metrics measuring the quality of governance in the school system.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 12 July 2017

Applies to England

Documents

The quality of school governance: defining and collecting metrics

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-773-5, DFE-RR681

PDF, 8.12 MB, 143 pages

Details

The study aimed to:

• establish a set of criteria showing whether a governing board is effective or not
• assess the quality of governance in a sample of schools through an external review of governance (ERG)
• compare the results of the ERG and survey to test whether the survey correctly measured the quality of governance

Published 12 July 2017