Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 133: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has issued guidelines to schools with regard to self-evaluation and providing communities with increased levels of information regarding individual schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32826/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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To facilitate self-evaluation as a central component of the continuous planning process the Inspectorate of my Department in 2003 published "Looking at Our School: An Aid to Self-Evaluation in Second-Level Schools" and "Looking at Our School: An Aid to Self-Evaluation in Primary Schools". These publications provide schools with a clear framework to inform internal quality assurance initiatives by schools themselves in the broad areas of management, planning, learning and teaching, and supports for students. In addition, my Department publishes all inspection reports arising from whole-school evaluations, subject inspections, programme evaluations and thematic inspections in schools and centres for education. These reports provide valuable information on the work of schools and centres for education. The publication of these inspection reports takes place in accordance with the provisions in "Publication of School Inspection Reports: Guidelines" which were published by my Department in 2006.