JANET CLINTON

Professor Janet Clinton is the Deputy Dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) and Director of the Teacher and Teaching Effectiveness Research Hub, at MGSE.  She has wide national and international experience as an evaluator and educator and has an extensive publication record. She teaches several post-graduate subjects in the discipline of Evaluation and also supervises a number of PhD students in the areas of Evaluation and Education. Janet has worked in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA, and has been a principal investigator on many large complex evaluations and research projects. Recently, she was the principal evaluator for the Australian Professional Standards for Teaching. She currently leads the Visible Classroom initiative as well as directs the Teacher Capability Assessment Tool project and is the lead investigator for the development of an Australian Teacher Performance Assessment.

Overall, she has led over 100 national and international evaluation projects across multiple disciplines, in particular health and education. Her major interest in program evaluation is the development of evaluation theory, mixed methodologies and data analytics. Her current evaluation work focuses on development of evaluation frameworks and implementation protocols, as well as using evaluation as a vehicle for change and building capacity through extensive stakeholder engagement.

“The New Evaluation: Measuring what matters”

I want to create a new Evaluation narrative, one where evaluation empowers. The focus of this presentation is how we create Evaluation Agency for leaders and teachers and acquire a sense autonomy over what can or should be evaluated for your school and the system. This new narrative requires a change in the mindset about evaluation and in fact we as leaders need to own and champion it and embedd into our work.

This presentation explores not only the why but also the how, by delving into what can we do in the day to day organisation of schools and understanding how this can serve our schools as well as meet the needs of reporting at a system level.