What is CBSE SQAA-School Quality Assessment and Assurance ?

CBSE SQAA-School Quality Assessment and Assurance

SCHOOL QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK

Encouraging Self Evaluation, Accountability, Collaboration and Innovation

The School Quality Assessment and Assurance (SQAA) encourages the school leaders, educationists and managements to reflect and introspect on why their schools exist and what is it that they are doing to ensure that student learning outcomes in the field of academics and personality development are being achieved.

Learning Organizations understand that school improvement is not an event but a continual process.

The SQAA empowers and enables schools to self- assess by providing them guidelines and tools and instruments to achieve a self- set target and goal.

https://cbseacademic.nic.in/sqaa/

School Quality Assessment and Assurance (SQAA) Framework

School Quality Assessment and Assurance (SQAA) Framework is a set of standards and best practices as paradigms for attaining individual and institutional excellence. It is a tool for educationists, leaders, management and all those involved in making a difference in the lives of children. It is an attempt to allow all of us to make informed choices, articulate what we want and compare it with a realistic assessment of current reality, collectively aspire for a goal, reflect and initiate dialogues, recognize and manage the complexities at large and thus deal effectively with the forces that shape the consequences of our actions.

The main purpose of SQAA is enhancement of quality, recognition of excellence, promotion of accountability, and benchmarking schools across a range of descriptors or indicators of assessment. 

CBSE SQAA

CBSE SQAA

It also captures the unique ethos of an institution such as a school nurturing and promoting excellence in sports, or integrating innovative technology in classroom teaching, or with state of the art infrastructure or incubators of innovation in teaching learning processes, or involved extensively with community outreach activities, or focused on promoting social cohesiveness and equity, or excelling in the area of science and technology.

This will also provide a degree of choice to a student or parent looking for specific qualities. The School Quality Assurance Assessment (SQAA) is easily implementable, feasible, transparent, objective, and carries with it a measure of credibility and acceptability. 

CBSE SQAA-Assessment or Accreditation?

The CBSE SQAA is an affirmation of ‘Quality’. It is a means of demonstrating confidence in the schools’ purpose and performance. The goals are effectiveness, improvement and public assurance.

It will not involve ranking of schools/institutions, but rather, will establish a level of acceptable quality for all the schools affiliated with the Board.
It will help the schools to go through the rigorous process of self-audit and reflection, build on their strengths and work on the areas that need attention, ultimately helping them to move towards becoming ‘Hubs of Excellence’.

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CBSE SQAA-School Quality Assessment and Assurance

https://cbseacademic.nic.in/sqaa/

SCHOOL QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK