SQAAF
August 24, 2025 2025-08-24 19:45SQAAF
School Quality Assessment and Assurance Framework (SQAAF)
SQAAF is a set of standards and best practices as paradigms for attaining individual and institutional excellence. It is a tool for educationists, leaders, management and all those involved in making a difference in the lives of children.
Learner at the centre stage of Standards’ Framework
Comprehensive and implementable self-assessment tool in alignment with NEP guidelines to bring transformational change in schools
Benchmarked by best global standards along with being rich in local requirements
Focus on continuous school improvement and quality performance and enable schools to charter self improvement plans
VISION
To provide quality education to students through standardized instruments and processes of self-evaluation and external assessment benchmarks in the concept, establishment and running of effective systems within an institution in accordance with changing socio-economic and cultural contexts.
MISSION
- Promote interconnectedness among stakeholders to support the school systems for ongoing research and development to improve achievement of student learning outcomes.
- Inspire schools to review and reflect on their curricular practices and achievement of student learning outcomes.
- Promote student centric non-discriminatory curriculum which prepares students to be confident, connected and lifelong learners as envisaged in NEP 2020.
- Stimulate schools to reflect, review, assess and create their institutions as learning organizations that are continuously growing and evolving on their developmental continuum.
- Foster the culture of openness, transparency and objectivity in self-assessment, peer review and external assessment.
- Empower schools to be continually involved in systematic self-assessment which has an explicit purpose of improving the quality of student experiences and their standards of attainment.
VALUE
- Encouraging Self-Evaluation, Accountability, Collaboration and Innovation.
- Promotion of use of technology; interdependence; promotion of research and innovation; enhancement in employability skills; nationalism; creating global citizens.
