Inspecting the inspectorate: new insights into Ofsted inspections

This is the project page of the Nuffield-funded project ‘Inspecting the inspectorate: new insights into Ofsted inspections’, by Christian Bokhove (Southampton Education School, University of Southampton), John Jerrim (UCL) and Sam Sims (UCL). More information about the project is on the Nuffield website. Outputs are posted on this page.

First working paper (2 February 2023)
Download the paper ‘Are some school inspectors more lenient than others?‘.
Read the press release ‘Male school inspectors award more lenient grades than female inspectors‘
See the slides of the press presentation.
We have created a few blogs with a summary of the paper, which will be published elsewhere (links to be added).

Blog 1 ‘Do Ofsted inspection outcomes differ between male and female inspectors?‘
Blog 2 ‘How do Ofsted inspection judgements vary between OIs and HMIs?‘
Blog 3 ‘The relationship between Ofsted judgements and inspection team size‘
Blog 4 ‘What is the joint impact of all the characteristics of Ofsted inspectors that we examine?‘
Blog 5 ‘How do inspector characteristics link to short school inspection outcomes of primary schools?‘

Some answers to frequently asked questions are here.

TES magazine published ‘Male Ofsted inspectors ‘give primaries higher grades’’.
Schoolsweek published ‘Female Ofsted inspectors hand out harsher grades, study suggests’.
Christian wrote the column ‘How reliable are Ofsted inspections?‘ for TES magazine.
Sam wrote the column ‘Ofsted reform should focus on inspection reliability first‘ for Schoolsweek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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