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Kim, Taeyeon – Harvard Educational Review, 2023
This portraiture-informed study by Taeyeon Kim challenges the dominant discourse of accountability, which often focuses on high-stakes policies at the expense of relational aspects of accountability in schools. Building on working theories of accountability, humanizing leadership, and paradox theory, Kim theorizes the "human side of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Humanization, Elementary Schools, Principals
Johannes Lunde Hatfield; Tone Elin T. Soløst – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the Norwegian education system has shown a growing inclination towards performance-based management. This mixed-methods study aims to gain a deeper understanding of Norwegian primary school teachers' perceptions of the implementation and application of the National Quality Assessment System. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
Mei B. Tran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of how primary teachers (K-2) perceive and manage accountability pressures. Accountability pressures are the consequences of high-stakes and standardized testing. This can be overtly represented by inappropriately aligned standards or a fast-paced curriculum design to match tested…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stress Variables, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Jean-Francois, Trani; Shuya, Yin; Mustafa, Rfat; Mara, Mckown; Mary Kate, Cartmill; Ian, Kaplan; Yiqi, Zhu; Sohail, Munib; Parul, Bakhshi – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan is characterised by indicators showing lack of mastering of reading, writing and mathematics literacy skills. To foster effective education systems and provide quality education, experts have encouraged and established various mechanisms of accountability. We conducted participatory workshops with 556 teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Teachers
Teachers Gaming the System: Exploring Opportunistic Behaviours in a Low-Stakes Accountability System
Gerard Ferrer-Esteban; Marcel Pagès – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2024
Based on the theoretical approaches of social capital and institutional trust, this paper seeks to identify contextual factors and conditions behind teacher behaviours which aim to alter the results of standardised tests in the Italian low-stakes accountability system. Numerous studies report significant factors associated with student cheating,…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Accountability, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
David Kahan; Thomas L. McKenzie; Maya Satnick; Olivia Hansen – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Studies tracking changes in physical education (PE) policy adherence after an intervention are scarce. In California, successful litigation against 37 school districts for not providing adequate PE time compelled district schools' teachers to post PE schedules online or on-site for 3 years. We performed a follow-up study 4 years after the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Policy, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation
James A. Daino – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School improvement and accountability pressures heightened at the turn of the 21st century, with the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 and with the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015. These actions spurred research to facilitate school improvement and meet state standards. Researchers identified a strong correlation between a…
Descriptors: Principals, Transformational Leadership, Educational Environment, Rural Areas
Diego Santori; Jessica Holloway – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This paper aims to map and understand tactics and practices of resistance to standardised testing in England by focusing on the "More Than a Score" (MTAS) campaign. More specifically, this paper examines the role of professional organisations affiliated to the MTAS campaign in the production and mobilisation of expert knowledge as a tool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Associations, Resistance (Psychology), Standardized Tests
Paola Andrea Guerrero-Rosada; Christina Weiland; Catherine Snow; Meghan McCormick – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) programs often expand by offering Pre-K in both public schools and in community-based providers (CBOs). This approach gives families more options and allow UPK programs to increase access more quickly. However, little is known about which CBOs select into these systems. This is an important gap in the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Access to Education
Riehl, Evan; Welch, Meredith – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
We examine how incentives for test prep varied between math and English language arts (ELA) on U.S. state accountability exams. We collected data on exam structure for grade 3 to 8 tests in six states that are the setting for most U.S. research in literatures where accountability matters. We show that math exams typically measured ability more…
Descriptors: Accountability, Test Preparation, Incentives, Test Construction
Waltzman, Dana; Daugherty, Jill; Sarmiento, Kelly; Haarbauer-Krupa, Juliet; Campbell, Hillary; Ferrell, Deanna – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: To inform prevention strategies, this study provides incidence, factors, and actions taken when a suspected concussion occurred in K-12 schools in Utah. Methods: Data were collected using Utah's Student Injury Reporting System (SIRS) from the academic years 2011-2012 to 2018-2019. SIRS is a unique online system that tracks injuries…
Descriptors: Incidence, Head Injuries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Omar Mizel – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This research examines the duality of accountability as perceived by twelve principals of elementary schools in the Bedouin education system in Israel who are implementing a self-management policy requiring a mechanism of accountability in their schools. This study also explores the impact of accountability on the effectiveness of the functioning…
Descriptors: Arabs, Migrants, Foreign Countries, Principals
Shrabani Mukherjee; Rujutha Joshi; Debdulal Thakur – Management in Education, 2025
The study inspects the status of school governance and school outcome at primary school level and set up roadmap for all the stakeholders to achieve the mandate of Goal 4 in SDGs within 2030, especially in the context of rural India. The status of school governance and school outcome are assessed under 4 dimensions and 16 parameters through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, School Administration, Governance
Çayak, Semih; Eskici, Menekse – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of organizational ethical climate and their accountability tendencies. The research was carried out with 405 teachers working in the province of Istanbul. Organizational Ethics Climate Scale and Teacher Accountability Tendency Scale were used as data collection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Ethics, Organizational Climate
Levatino, Antonina; Parcerisa, Lluís; Verger, Antoni – Educational Policy, 2024
Under test-based accountability, side-effects--including practices to inflate test results, often seen as cheating--are usually associated to so-called high-stakes policies. However, the influence of different types of stakes in the generation of this type of practices has been overlooked in education research. Based on a survey experiment, our…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation