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Purpose of the School Report Card (SRC)
The main aims of the School Report Card (SRC) is to help parents
and the community generally become more informed about, and thus
subsequently more involved with, Qatar’s schools. Apart from aiming
at encouraging and empowering parents,
the SRC provides a basis by
which they can engage with schools and discuss and influence
important matters relating to their children’s schooling.
Ultimately, this will allow them to make better decisions about
their children’s’ schools and schooling, enabling them to exercise
informed choices.
The
challenge is that schools are dynamic and complex entities and the
SRC does not allow for simplistic judgements to be made about
whether a school is bad or good. It is also a highly individual
consideration and, simply put, what might be a good school for one
child may be a bad school for another. Parents, who
have a deep
understanding of their own child’s capacities, interests, aptitudes
and propensities, together with sound information about the
schooling options available, are ideally positioned to make sound
decisions about which school or schools are best for their child.
What is clear is that, the more parents are genuinely engaged with
their child’s schooling and the stronger the home–school links, then
the better chance that good educational outcomes will ensue. The SRC
is an important component which can help facilitate these
connections.
Overview of the SRC
The
data presented in the SRC constitutes a strategic selection of the
available information. The SRC information presented is not all that
is important in schooling, but all that has been presented is
important. It is all worthwhile; however it can be best
characterized as providing a focussed, selective and indicative
picture of the school rather an extensive, exhaustive and
prescriptive one. On their own, these data are not sufficient to
make definitive judgements but they serve as a useful basis for
considering schools and assisting parents’ in their journey to find
out more about, and become more involved in, their child’s school
and schooling. The SRC information, together with that which parents
may obtain from the schools themselves and other sources, needs to
be assembled, considered and assessed. For an individual parent such
activities can be challenging and arduous but they are certainly
worthwhile as the outcome will be a better education for their
child.
2006/2007 School Report Card
2005/2006 School Report Card
2004/2005 School Report Card (Arabic)
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