RCELI
TEP Metrics
Schools/Trusts
Published
11.6.2026
Multi-stakeholder engagement in TEP
This paper looks at why schools gain from measuring engagement across pupils, employees, families, leaders and governors, rather than relying on any single group. It explains how TEP balances comparable measures against role-specific questions. It then uses TEP data to show where different groups’ views line up and where they differ.
What to expect
Schools where staff enjoy their jobs more also tend to have pupils who look forward to school more, and headline engagement for staff and pupils follows the same pattern.
In the same school, groups can see the same issue very differently. Support staff rate their workload much more positively than teachers do, and leaders rate behaviour systems more positively than teachers.
Leaders and governors tend to overestimate how safe pupils feel, so asking pupils directly shows blind spots that self-evaluation can miss.
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