How do inspector characteristics link to short school inspection outcomes of primary schools?
By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 7 February 2023

Credit: Phil Meech for UCL IOE.
John Jerrim, Sam Sims and Christian Bokhove
This is the final post in a five part series on Ofsted inspections. Jump to: previous.
We have published a new academic paper investigating how Ofsted inspection outcomes vary across inspectors with different characteristics. This has been supported by the Nuffield Foundation and uses data we have pulled together on approximately 30,000 school inspections conducted between September 2011 and August 2019.
You can read a full version of our academic working paper along with our responses to some FAQs about the research.
This final blog in the series looks at the relationship between lead inspector characteristics and short inspection outcomes of primary schools. (more…)