Inside the project, AICA (Associazione Italiana per l'lnformatica e il Calcolo automatico) organised the second consultation for teachers working in the Italian vocational education.

Aims of the Consultation

• Reasoning on Quality, the RAV (Self-Evaluation Report), the ReQuS (the network for quality in school) and the European project OpenQAsS.
• Questions about the planning and development of the planned software at the Teacher’s consultation event.

The questionnaire allowed partners to include any other comment or suggestion regarding all those aspects not dealt with in the questionnaire, or aspects that should be taken into further account.
 

Results

• Good interest on the theme
• Availability to debate and compare Quality systems
• Lack of opportunity to test new tools

Comments

• Strength of the RAV is that it returns data benchmarking; it allows to compare own schools with other in similar context.
• The difficulty is the governance of the process.
• In the school a Fordist model still prevails; the need is to experience flexibility.
• Lever to design improvement plans is the involvement of people; it becomes crucial to develop a system of communication within the school and between schools.
• It is important to give the evaluation a pedagogical cut; the RAV makes us think if the pedagogical model is shared with teachers and parents.