ABSTRACT

Inspection criteria for schools with a religious character in England and Wales require the sponsoring body to arrange assessment on aspects of the distinctiveness of the school ethos. The Student Voice Project was designed to include year-five and year-six students in this process. Within the Diocese of Llandaff, the Diocesan Director of Education utilised the customised reports prepared at the end of the first year of the survey for schools participating in the project with the senior leadership teams in order to enhance school improvement and effectiveness. The present study compares the responses of the 1,192 students participating in year one of the survey with the responses of the 1,111 students from the same 23 schools participating in year two. These data show a significant overall increase in scores recorded on the six-item scales designed to measure student attitude towards five areas of ethos (school character, school experience, school teachers, relationships in school, and school and environment). These findings suggest that the Student Voice Project, effectively implemented by the Diocesan Director of Education, had significant impact on the participating schools. Similar impact was not found, however, in the control group of students from 41 schools within four other dioceses.

摘要

英格兰和威尔士具有宗教性质的学校的检查标准要求赞助机构安排对学校精神独特性方面的评估。学生声音项目旨在让五年级和六年级学生参与此过程。在兰达夫教区，教区教育主任利用第一年末为参与项目的学校与高级领导团队准备的定制报告，以提高学校的改进和有效性。本研究将参加第一年调查的 1,192 名学生的回答与参加第二年调查的 23 所学校的 1,111 名学生的回答进行了比较。这些数据显示，在旨在衡量学生对五个领域（学校性格、学校经验、学校教师、学校关系以及学校和环境）态度的六项量表上记录的分数总体上显着增加。这些调查结果表明，由教区教育主任有效实施的学生之声计划对参与的学校产生了重大影响。然而，在来自其他四个教区的 41 所学校的学生对照组中没有发现类似的影响。对参与的学校产生了重大影响。然而，在来自其他四个教区的 41 所学校的学生对照组中没有发现类似的影响。对参与的学校产生了重大影响。然而，在来自其他四个教区的 41 所学校的学生对照组中没有发现类似的影响。