The external evaluations of Italian schools will begin shortly. Initially it was expected that 8-900 institutes would be judged, but due to lack of resources this year it will not be possible to exceed 390 schools (of which 20 are equal), just over 4% of the over 8 thousand present in Italy. The institutions concerned will be drawn at random and notified one week before the start of the inspection. Our country thus responds to international requests to measure the performance of the education system.
The visits to the schools will be carried out by the "External Evaluation Nuclei" ("Nev"), made up of a ministerial inspector and two experts, one from the school and one from the world of research or management engineering. In all, about a hundred people (of which just 51 are MIUR inspectors, because the additional contingent of inspectors envisaged by the Renzi-Giannini reform did not have time to form). Each nucleus will have to evaluate up to a maximum of eight schools.
Inspectors and external experts “will study the Ravs and all the documents that the school wishes to make available – explains the head of Invalsi, Annamaria Ajello to Il Sole 24 ore -. There will then be talks with principals, teachers, parents and students. The evaluation will only be returned to the institution, therefore it will not be public. And there will be no rewards or sanctions."
