Country Background Report – Denmark
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10932 OECD Country Background Report Denmark
The municipal level
The frame mentioned above specifies the division of labour between the national and the municipal level. The municipalities ‘own’ and run the schools. It is the responsibil- ity of the individual municipal board to determine how the municipality’s schools are to be organised in practice. The municipal board is responsible for ensuring that every child in the municipality receives a free education in the Folkeskole. The municipal boards themselves determine the municipal level of service and the scope for the Folkeskole within the overriding framework. It can set their own additional objectives and guidelines for the schools as well as launching special initiatives for its own schools. As a result, the municipal board can set targets and the framework for the ac- tivities of the school, within the provisions of the Folkeskole Act. As provider of pri- mary and lower secondary education, the municipalities specify, within the national 23 http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/47696663.pdf . 52 minimum standards, the exact level of activities, e.g. number of classes taught, addi- tional classes, teacher/student ratio and number of students per class. The municipal school system is required by national legislation to assess the quality of its local school system. Local educational authorities in the municipalities are to over- see that curricular plans of the schools incorporate and are in accordance with the study and attainment targets, as well as specify how targets are to be achieved. Follow- ing approval by local educational authorities, the curriculum is binding for the school. The administration of the school system at the municipal level plays an important sup- porting role for both the municipal boards and the schools. It is important to note that the municipal school administrations may be organised differently and have different tasks across municipalities. Typically, they have an implementation role when it comes to national legislation and decisions made by the municipal board on, for instance, dis- tribution of resources. It is also at this level that systems for resource distribution and municipal monitoring systems are set up. The municipalities are required to produce an annual quality report on the performance of their schools. The quality report must describe the municipality’s school system, the schools’ academic level, the measures that the municipal board has taken in order to evaluate the academic level, and the steps that the municipal board has taken in re- sponse to the previous quality report. The report contains information on 1) framework conditions, e.g. number of students per class, teacher-student ratio; 2) pedagogical processes, e.g. the evaluation and assessment of the students’ output; and 3) perfor- mance, e.g. grades and test results specifying the academic level. One aim of the re- ports is to further the cooperation between local politicians, local authorities and the schools in relation to their work with evaluation and quality assurance. Finally, the reports are to contribute to transparency, as they are made public (with the exception of test results). As a result of a simplification of the rules, following the 2014 reform municipalities are only obliged to produce a quality report every other year. This new version is termed version 2 of the quality reports. A number of indicators are specified as being part of version 2 of the quality reports. These are the results and attainment targets on academic performance and indicators of student well-being set in the reform (see Section 2.2), average grades correlated for socio-economic background, transition rates to upper secondary education, number of complaints regarding special need edu- cation, number of teachers with teaching competencies in the subjects they teach and inclusion rate. Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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