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Monitoring & Reporting Systems (GT)
This page contains the "first edition" of a Glossary Term that defines Monitoring & Reporting Systems in school health promotion, safety and social development. Visitors to and members of this wiki-based International Discussion Group were encouraged to comment on the draft between September and December 2009 using the tools available on this web site. This document has been published here as well as in a global web-based Glossary and Encyclopedia published by several organizations.
A Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) System uses carefully selected indicators based on reliable data sources to produce regular reports on system/organizational performance over time as a tool to focus system reform and improvement. The goals of monitoring/reporting systems are to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of a system, agency or coordinated set of programs in order to improve performance as well as provide a mechanism for accountability. M&R systems provide enhanced information for improved planning, policy, practice and decision-making. Effective M&R systems record changes over time in the local context, inputs, processes (programs, policies, practices) and outputs (short term health/social status, behaviours, knowledge, skills, attitudes). These outputs can lead to positive lifelong outcomes in health, social development and education provided that similar supportive conditions or interventions are available over the life course.
Having a M&R system is one of several key capacities that should be developed at the national, provincial/state and local agency/school board levels. M&R systems are similar but different than program evaluation, self-assessments, one-time or ongoing surveys or cohort studies of children. M&R systems report regularly and publicly on the overall characteristics, results and capacity of the school and other systems, agencies and professionals as well as the healthy development and health related learning of children and youth.
M&R systems use data from regular surveys of young people, parents, professionals, managers and officials as well as from administrative and other sources to inform practitioners, administrators, officials, policymakers and the general public. These reliable data sources are selected because they are true, relevant indicators of meaningful factors, conditions or individual attributes that will have an effect on health, social development or learning outputs. M&R systems on school-based and school-linked programs should be integrated within the core reporting and subsequent decision-making processes for health, education, welfare, law enforcement and social services ministries, local agencies and school boards and schools, clinics and other child, youth and family services.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Glossary Term: Monitoring & Reporting Systems (First Edition, December 2009)
Writer/Editor: Doug McCall, Coordinator, International School Health Network dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org
Contributors:
First Draft Posted for Discussion: September 15, 2009 First Edition Posted: December 15, 2009
Further Comments: This summary is "locked" and therefore edits to the text on the web page is no longer possible. Comments can continue to be made by clicking on the "thread" button at the bottom of the page or by using the Discussion feature in the top navigation bar.
Permissions for Use: The authors, writers, editors, contributors, sponsors, partners and the International School Health Network retain the right to first publish this document or adapted versions thereof in accordance with regular copyright laws. However, web links to this page and excerpts from this document are encouraged. As well, visitors to and participants in this wiki-based community are encouraged to add sub-pages or links to additional case studies or other documents and thereby become a contributor to this document.
Related Summaries in this Web Site: Please see: Encyclopedia Entry (2 pages), Handbook Section (15 pages, plus others, includes recorded webinars) and Bibliography of Research & Resources Also see the wiki-based web site supporting an International Discussion Group on School Health Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation (www.schoolhealthindicators.org)that includes reports, surveys and presentations from over 40 countries and states/provinces.
Monitoring & Reporting in Promoting Health, Learning & Social Development through Schools
Glossary Term: Monitoring & Reporting Systems
A Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) System uses carefully selected indicators based on reliable data sources to produce regular reports on system/organizational performance over time as a tool to focus system reform and improvement. The goals of monitoring/reporting systems are to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of a system, agency or coordinated set of programs in order to improve performance as well as provide a mechanism for accountability. M&R systems provide enhanced information for improved planning, policy, practice and decision-making. Effective M&R systems record changes over time in the local context, inputs, processes (programs, policies, practices) and outputs (short term health/social status, behaviours, knowledge, skills, attitudes). These outputs can lead to positive lifelong outcomes in health, social development and education provided that similar supportive conditions or interventions are available over the life course.
Having a M&R system is one of several key capacities that should be developed at the national, provincial/state and local agency/school board levels. M&R systems are similar but different than program evaluation, self-assessments, one-time or ongoing surveys or cohort studies of children. M&R systems report regularly and publicly on the overall characteristics, results and capacity of the school and other systems, agencies and professionals as well as the healthy development and health related learning of children and youth.
M&R systems use data from regular surveys of young people, parents, professionals, managers and officials as well as from administrative and other sources to inform practitioners, administrators, officials, policymakers and the general public. These reliable data sources are selected because they are true, relevant indicators of meaningful factors, conditions or individual attributes that will have an effect on health, social development or learning outputs. M&R systems on school-based and school-linked programs should be integrated within the core reporting and subsequent decision-making processes for health, education, welfare, law enforcement and social services ministries, local agencies and school boards and schools, clinics and other child, youth and family services.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Glossary Term: Monitoring & Reporting Systems (First Edition, December 2009)
Writer/Editor: Doug McCall, Coordinator, International School Health Network dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org
Contributors:
- Dr. Albert Lee, Director of Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Christine Beyer, Health Education Consultant, Department of Education, South Carolina
- Nancy Hudson, Coordinator, Health Education Assessment Project, Council of Chief State School Officer
- Candace Currie OBE, Professor of Child & Adolescent Health, Director of CAHRU / HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Vivian Barnekow, Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
First Draft Posted for Discussion: September 15, 2009 First Edition Posted: December 15, 2009
Further Comments: This summary is "locked" and therefore edits to the text on the web page is no longer possible. Comments can continue to be made by clicking on the "thread" button at the bottom of the page or by using the Discussion feature in the top navigation bar.
Permissions for Use: The authors, writers, editors, contributors, sponsors, partners and the International School Health Network retain the right to first publish this document or adapted versions thereof in accordance with regular copyright laws. However, web links to this page and excerpts from this document are encouraged. As well, visitors to and participants in this wiki-based community are encouraged to add sub-pages or links to additional case studies or other documents and thereby become a contributor to this document.
Related Summaries in this Web Site: Please see: Encyclopedia Entry (2 pages), Handbook Section (15 pages, plus others, includes recorded webinars) and Bibliography of Research & Resources Also see the wiki-based web site supporting an International Discussion Group on School Health Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation (www.schoolhealthindicators.org)that includes reports, surveys and presentations from over 40 countries and states/provinces.
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