Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development jurisdictions operate relative progress measures as a measure of school effectiveness.

The Department does not hold this information.

There are a variety of different arrangements in place across the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) countries and jurisdictions. These are documented by the OECD and other international organisations. Some examples are provided below:

• In 2013 the OECD published their final synthesis report from a review of countries’ Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes: Synergies for Better Learning: An International Perspective on Evaluation and Assessment. Chapter 6 covers the use of assessment and evaluation for school evalution purposes:

http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/oecdreviewonevaluationandassessmentframeworksforimprovingschooloutcomes.htm

• In 2015 the European Comission published a report on Assuring Quality in Education: Policies and Approaches to School Evaluation in Europe. Chapter 1 and the national profiles cover the use of performance measures in evaluating school effectiveness :

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/thematic_reports/178EN.pdf