TIMSS 2011 and PIRLS 2011The international project TIMSS is focused on the 4th and/or 8th grade pupils knowledge and skills monitoring in mathematics and science. The PIRLS project monitors the level of pupils’ reading skills in the 4th grade of primary schools. Both projects enable the participating countries to monitor pupils´ outcomes progress.   In the Czech Republic; the TIMSS 2011 survey tested only 4th grade pupils. The Czech pupils performed above average in mathematics and - with better results in international comparison - in science. While in mathematics they ...

The Board of Governors of European Schools approved final report of the Czech Presidency during the December meeting which took place in the office of Secretary General in Brussels. By this action the Czech Presidency in European Schools was completed. 

The preparation of modified criteria for evaluation of conditions, course and results of education is one of the Czech School Inspectorate´s (CSI) core tasks in a given school year. The first proposal was introduced to professional public on Thursday, the 5th of February, in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports´ (MEYS) conference hall. A model of so-called School Quality was introduced in the framework of which modified evaluation criteria are developed. The Czech School Inspectorate proceeds along these criteria while evaluating all schools and schools facilities ...

PISA INTERNATIONAL SURVEY   Currently the most important international survey in the area of assessment of education outcomes is the international OECD project PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). It is designed to provide policy makers in individual countries with an important feedback on achievement and effectiveness of their school systems and at the same time to enable international comparison of students´ outcomes at the end of compulsory school attendance. In the three years cycles, the survey monitors the education outcomes of the fifteen years old ...

Bilateral cooperation between the CSI and its Austrian counterparts successfully continues. Between November 3rd and 6th a study visit of representatives from the Olomouc inspectorate and from the CSI Headquarters  took place in one of nine Austrian federal countries – Burgendland. Accompanied by their Austrian colleagues the Czech school inspectors visited a bilingual Austrian- Croatian Volksschule in Parndorf, Neue Mittelschule in Markt Allhau and a polytechnic school and a special school in Mattersburg. Together with the President of the Burgenland School Council and ...

Within the framework of the Czech Presidency of the Board of Governors of the European Schools the CSI organized a professional seminar with the aim to share experience with pre-school education in specific environment of the European Schools and discuss possible approaches to be implemented into the system of pre-school education in the Czech Republic.

The Criteria for Evaluation of Conditions, Progress and Results of Education and School Services (2009-2010). 

Within the framework of the Czech Presidency of the Board of Governors of the European Schools the CSI organized a professional seminar with the aim to debate the topic of inclusion, integration and education of children and pupils with special educational needs, with a focus on ethnicity and social, cultural or territorial specifics which need to be considered.

The Czech School Inspectorate participates through the national inspector for nursery and primary cycle in several innovative projects in the framework of the European schools. One of them is the implementation of new support policy for education of pupils with special education needs which entered into effect in September 2013.

CSI International partners The CSI is the founding member of The Standing International Conference of Inspectorates and it is involved in European Schools' activities.   At the international bilateral level, the CSI concluded agreements on cooperation with:  - State School Inspection in the Slovak Republic (came into force on June 4, 2013)- French Embassy in Prague, the Czech Republic (came into force on May 30, 2012)- Roma Education Fund (came into force on April 5, 2012)- Kuratorium oświaty in Katowice (came into force on May 14, 2009)- British Council, the Czech ...