Number of participants: 53 participants (including Madeira)
Number of participating countries/ members: 53 participants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany Bavaria, Jamaica, Lithuania, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Portugal (mainland), Portugal Madeira, Slovenia, Spain (Basque Country, Sweden,), UK England and UK Scotland.
In this working meeting, we had the opportunity to learn about good practices in this relationship between research and inspection, and learn about the added value of research to inspection, schools, inspectors and public policies.
It is true that research allows for complementing and validating inspection analysis and data in order to foster a climate of trust with schools that underpins a co-construction and co-creation session approach between inspection and schools.
External and internal research foster schools with an independent and objective analysis of their strengths and weaknesses, to determine the most effective way to provide critical self-review, ultimately so that educational establishments become better places both for their students and for those who work in them.
In other hand, research provides to inspection public accountability, in the sense of transparency, responsiveness, in order to validate inspection practice and consolidate educational policies.