Evaluating the Impact of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Moving on: Pupil Learning Outcomes
Most ticks in the “Emerging” category:
! Consider how data about assessment results might be related to previous instances of CPD.
! Create a chart which will show pupil attendance rates,
disciplinary action rates and homework/course work rates. Are there any relationships between them, that can’t be
explained easily? Can any trends be related to CPD? (E.g., an increase in pupil and teacher attendance after
training on behaviour management or accelerated learning). The point of this exercise is to find suggestions of
trends, rather than causal connections – evidence, rather than proof.
Most ticks in the “Establishing” category:
! Any of the suggestions above which would benefit your school
! Consider instituting a series of pupil conferences, speaking to a set number of pupils from each
class/year group. Focus the discussions on the targets in the SIP or other whole school targets – look to the
pupil responses to see if these are being met.
! Consider some means of tracking student attendance, homework completion and disciplinary action rates
against CPD in the school. Try not to limit this to CPD which might be expected to have a direct effect (such as work
on behaviour management); leave room for the possibility of secondary effects (such as increased teacher
motivation).
Most ticks in the “Enhancing” category:
! Any of the suggestions above which would benefit your school
! Consider how you might use the information gained in these exercises in your cluster or network. Do
other schools have the same trends in the data? If not, what explanations might there be for differences?
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