Academic Value-Added Information - SVAIS

Schools have to comply with the following protocol:

Schools Value-Added Information System (SVAIS) provides schools with academic value-added (VA) information to facilitate schools’ self-evaluation. Schools should capitalise on their VA information, together with other evidence and schools' contextualised factors, to reflect on the effectiveness of learning and teaching and for continuous improvement.

Schools should report their VA information to the Incorporated Management Committee (IMC)/ School Management Committee (SMC) for enhancing school development and accountability.

School management (including IMC / SMC) should monitor the use of VA information by their schools to ensure that VA information is solely used as one of the information for school self-evaluation, aiming at enhancing student learning and promoting continuous development of the schools, rather than for other purposes, such as publicity. If a school opts for releasing its VA information to other parties (including parents and the public), the school is obliged to disclose the full set of VA information, but not selectively, in order to avoid misleading the recipients. Once the school has chosen to release the VA information to other parties, the school has to stick to this practice in subsequent years.

Should the school fail to comply with the relevant agreement, the Education Bureau will consider suspending the provision of VA information to that school.