❓ WA Shadow Minister for Education, Mr. Wyatt, questions the selection process, accessibility, and distribution of Expert Review Group (ERG) reports on schools, receiving clarification on the Director General's role, report availability, and the rationale behind confidentiality.
AnsweredQoN 5972Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
I refer to the Expert Review Group (ERG), and I ask:
(a) who selects schools for review by the ERG;
(b) if schools are chosen by the Regional Executive Director (RED), on what basis is the choice made, given that REDs do not visit schools as frequently as District Directors did;
(c) are recommendations for review made by Network Principals; and
(i) if so, to whom are those recommendations made;
(d) are the full ERG reports on each school publicly available; and
(i) if not, why not; and
(ii) if so, where may they be obtained; and
(e) are ERG report summaries publicly available; and
(i) if not, why not; and
(ii) if so, where may they be obtained?
(a) who selects schools for review by the ERG;
(b) if schools are chosen by the Regional Executive Director (RED), on what basis is the choice made, given that REDs do not visit schools as frequently as District Directors did;
(c) are recommendations for review made by Network Principals; and
(i) if so, to whom are those recommendations made;
(d) are the full ERG reports on each school publicly available; and
(i) if not, why not; and
(ii) if so, where may they be obtained; and
(e) are ERG report summaries publicly available; and
(i) if not, why not; and
(ii) if so, where may they be obtained?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
20 September 2011
Responded by
Minister for Education
Response time
41 days
(a)-(c)(i) The Director General selects the schools. Neither Regional Executive Directors nor Network Principals select schools for review. The Expert Review Group (ERG) is responsible to the Director General for conducting four types of school review:
· identified schools whose performance raises concern;
· validation reviews of the Standards Review process;
· schools with identified areas of exemplary practice; and
· reviews of schools at the direction of the Minister or Director General.
To date, all reviews have been at the direction of the Director General.
The review team spends up to five days in a school being reviewed, engaging the whole school community, consulting the principal, teachers and parents. ERG reports include prescribed improvement strategies, where required, with particular attention on various aspects of school performance. For example:
· literacy and numeracy standards;
· student behaviour being successfully managed to ensure that effective learning can occur;
· education programs appropriate to the needs, abilities and interests of students; and
· resources, including staff, being managed effectively to optimise learning opportunities.
(d)-(d)(ii) Since the inception of the ERG in April 2008, the full ERG report has not been made publicly available, as it is written as a technical report for the professional staff of the school to use as the basis for improvement where required. Where an ERG review has been undertaken on an underperforming school, the report may reflect on and identify individual teachers and/or administrators.
A copy of the full report and executive summary is provided to the Principal, the Regional Executive Director (previously the Director Schools) and the local Member of Parliament. Further distribution of the full report is at the discretion of the Principal.
(e)-(e)(ii) Yes. The executive summaries of ERG reports are publicly available and may be viewed at the school's webpage of the Department of Education's Schools Online website.
Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on
http://www.rtlib.com
· identified schools whose performance raises concern;
· validation reviews of the Standards Review process;
· schools with identified areas of exemplary practice; and
· reviews of schools at the direction of the Minister or Director General.
To date, all reviews have been at the direction of the Director General.
The review team spends up to five days in a school being reviewed, engaging the whole school community, consulting the principal, teachers and parents. ERG reports include prescribed improvement strategies, where required, with particular attention on various aspects of school performance. For example:
· literacy and numeracy standards;
· student behaviour being successfully managed to ensure that effective learning can occur;
· education programs appropriate to the needs, abilities and interests of students; and
· resources, including staff, being managed effectively to optimise learning opportunities.
(d)-(d)(ii) Since the inception of the ERG in April 2008, the full ERG report has not been made publicly available, as it is written as a technical report for the professional staff of the school to use as the basis for improvement where required. Where an ERG review has been undertaken on an underperforming school, the report may reflect on and identify individual teachers and/or administrators.
A copy of the full report and executive summary is provided to the Principal, the Regional Executive Director (previously the Director Schools) and the local Member of Parliament. Further distribution of the full report is at the discretion of the Principal.
(e)-(e)(ii) Yes. The executive summaries of ERG reports are publicly available and may be viewed at the school's webpage of the Department of Education's Schools Online website.
Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on
http://www.rtlib.com
Explore WA Government Data
Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.
Explore more
Government Gazette
Appointments, regulatory notices, planning changes.
Hansard
Debates, questions, speeches and sentiment.
Tabled Papers
Reports and documents tabled in Parliament.
Committees
Committee profiles and recent reports.
Regulations
Subsidiary legislation with filters and summaries.
Bills
Proposed laws and parliamentary progress.
Acts
Current WA legislation and summaries.
Explanatory Memoranda
Bills with EMs (text/PDF) available.
Members
MP profiles, party breakdown and rankings.
Pollie Rankings
Data-driven rankings across 19 categories.
Amendment Chains
Track how schemes and regulations evolve over time.