Self-Evaluation: Tools for growing from ‘Good’ to ‘Great’
All Careers Hub schools have access to a range of resources to support identifying strengths and areas for development in their careers provision, helping schools to achieve and excel beyond the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Compass+ is a free digital product from The Careers & Enterprise Company with features that help schools to measure impact and inform continuous improvement of their careers provision. In as little as 30 minutes, it allows schools to:
The FSQ is embedded in Compass+ and allows schools to survey their pupils and effectively measure their career-readiness. The questions are mapped against theGatsby Benchmarks, learning outcomes from the CDI framework and the Skills Builder framework for essential skills.
There are five versions of the questionnaire, allowing schools to assess the skills and knowledge of their learners at specific points of transition.
The Careers Impact System is a systematic process that drives continuous improvement in the quality of careers education in schools and colleges.
The CIS sets clearly defined standards as to what good looks like in careers leadership and careers provision – in what is called a maturity model - and maps the pathway towards achieving it - showing how careers leadership and excellence is a driver for overall school and college improvement.
A step-by-step staged and integrated approach to improving and assuring quality in the careers system, with peer and expert support all the way through, founded internal leadership reviews, peer-to-peer reviews, expert reviews and national system reviews.
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FSQ covers key aspects of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are important for successful transitions to measure learners’ career-readiness.
