South West and Mid Wales Consortium

[Cymraeg]

Post-Visit Evaluation of External Advisor

The consortium would be very grateful if you could complete this questionnaire, from your perspective as appointed governors for Performance Management, to help evaluate and improve the service that external advisors offer to schools.

Please answer all the questions

 
Your name:* 
Your designation:* 
Name of school:* 
School DfES No.
(if known): 
Name of advisor:* 
Date of advisor visit: 
 
Yes No
1) Did you supply the required contextual data in time for the external advisor to complete and return the pre-visit advice?
If "No", did the advisor have time, at school, to examine the documents?
 

2) Thinking about the pre-visit advice and the pre-review meeting, please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements (please tick one box on each line):

Strongly
Agree
Agree Disagree Strongly
Disagree
Don't
Know
Not
Done
The pre-visit advice was useful:
The pre-visit advice was succinct:
The pre-visit advice identified key issues:
The pre-review meeting was helpful:
 

3) To what extent are the following statements true regarding your external advisor (please tick one box on each line):

Entirely
True
Mainly
True
Mainly
Untrue
Entirely
Untrue
Don't
Know
Not
Done
Helped us to assess progress to date:
Helped us to ask challenging questions:
Made constructive suggestions:
Showed understanding and empathy towards the school’s circumstances:
Had professional credibility as an educational management advisor:
 
4) Did the advisor: Yes No
•  help you to draft the objectives:
•  offer to draft the review statement for you:
•  offer advice on in-year monitoring:
 
Yes No
5) Did the advisor have any previous connection with the Headteacher which caused you to question the impartiality of the advice given:
 

6) Please make use of the space below to provide us with any comments you wish to make on any aspect of the service including preliminary advice, pre-visit, discussion at the school, etc: