Proposal of indicators for the evaluation of scholastic institutions

In order to improve the quality of training and learning, every school has to implement a self-evaluation process, through which to identify the strengths to maintain and/or strengthen, as well as the critical elements in relation to which realize improvement actions. Such process should not be considered statically, but as a stimulus to continued reflections, with the involvement of the whole school community. In this aim, the survey’s instruments here are four questionnaires: teachers (administered to all teachers of the school), ATA (administered to the whole non-teaching staff of the school), parents (administered to one of the parents of enrolled students who are attending) and students (administered to enrolled students, attending the 2nd and 5th classes). This work aims to build indicators that are intended to clarify the qualitative characteristics related to specific content in the macro-areas of intervention identified by the Ministry of Education (called Context, Outcomes, Processes), in order to allow schools to make an overall self-evaluative judgment. Such indicators are built by means of multivariate statistical methods, i.e. factorial analysis. In order to assess their effectiveness and sensitivity, the indicators are tested on two secondary school degree (IISS "Marco Polo" of Bari and ITE "Vitale Giordano" of Bitonto), by using different questionnaires testing the same aspects suggested by the Ministry.