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Lyons, Adrian – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
While never a loved organisation, Ofsted's reputation has perhaps never been so low. Amid a myriad of calls for reform or abolition, former HMI Adrian Lyons reflects on his 20 years of inspection with over 16 years employed by Ofsted as an HMI. He concludes that one of the biggest problems with Ofsted is its frequent change in policy, activity and…
Descriptors: Inspection, Problems, Change, Accountability
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Gee, Nick; Parrish, Abigail; Puttick, Steven – Teacher Development, 2023
Subject departments are an increasingly important unit of analysis for research on schools and beginning teachers' experiences. By analysing a practice-based typology of eight departmental types through an exploratory factor analysis of questionnaires completed by beginning teachers (n = 55), the authors refined the typology to four (hierarchical;…
Descriptors: Classification, Departments, Secondary Schools, Intellectual Disciplines
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
The surest measure of a successful college or university is the academic success of its students. True academic success requires incoming students to be academically prepared for college rigor, and is demonstrated by the availability of high-quality academic programs and evidence of personal and professional growth in the years after students'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Higher Education, Course Descriptions
Sara Ann Baramy Constantinescu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored how institutions can empower minoritized graduate students by leveraging their existing forms of capital, shifting from a deficit view to an assets-based approach. Through qualitative case study methodology, data from interviews and documentation illustrated the vital role of institutional agents, such as faculty and staff,…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Graduate Students, Accountability, Success
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Taeyeon Kim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
This study aims to explore reimagined accountability through collective efforts initiated by school leaders and to challenge the fixed notion of accountability prescribed by policy scripts. Drawing on studies highlighting humanizing leadership and the metaphors of "agora" and "bazaar," I investigate how school leaders…
Descriptors: Accountability, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis
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Adam Poole – Educational Review, 2024
This paper utilises the concepts of "post-performativity" and "the post-performative teacher" to explore the private school context in China. It does this by drawing on in-depth interviews with Chinese language teachers and utilising metaphor analysis to highlight three recurring teacher identities that collectively constitute…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Private Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Ebony H. Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite increasing enrollment rates among Great Lakes state charter schools, a growing body of research acknowledged the disproportionate number of charter school closures experienced by a marginalized student population. The purpose of this qualitative comparison case study was to examine whether inequities existed in the contract renewal process…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, Minority Group Students, Contracts
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Rajiv K. Kar – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
Proposal writing is an essential requirement for making progress in academics. Learning this skill necessitates support from a mentor to cultivate effective habits. It entails effective strategies from graduate students, such as literature reading and using online tools. Additionally, they must develop an understanding of resource accountability,…
Descriptors: Proposal Writing, Graduate Students, Planning, Writing Processes
Susan Rutherford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
States recognize that a workforce skill shortage exists and have started educational initiatives to prepare students for workforce readiness and postsecondary success. There is a growing consensus among states that the goal of our education system is to prepare students for a career, college, or the military by providing all students with…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Military Service, Credentials
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Kathryn McEwan; Melissa Girling; Angela Bate; Joanne Atkinson; Amanda Clarke; Sonia Dalkin – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
A crucial part of theory-driven realist thinking is retroduction, the process of looking backwards for explanation of how and why things may be. Conducted early in the realist evaluation process, it provides a foundation for evidenced 'theory gleaning'. Despite retroduction being an inherent part of the realist process, it is often 'hidden' in…
Descriptors: Patients, Death, Caring, Community Services
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Matthew S. McCluskey – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
In their nascent stages, charter schools formed under competing ideologies. In academic circles, charter schools were envisioned as pedagogical laboratories that would allow for educator- and community-driven school improvement. In other circles, charter schools emerged as a free-market reform driven by accountability, choice, and growth. Amid the…
Descriptors: Scaling, Organizational Culture, Values, Charter Schools
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Wisshak, Susanne; Barth, Dorothee – International Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Schlenker's model of responsibility was used in this study to investigate to what extent leadership trainers consider themselves accountable for the transfer of training. We conducted 15 semi-structured interviews and evaluated the answers using qualitative content analysis. With respect to the responsibility links of Schlenker's model, the…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Leadership Training, Trainers, Attitudes
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Timothy A. Drake – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
In this review, I examined the last two decades of research on data use in education to outline the ways in which principals used data to inform their own leadership practices. I found three themes: first, student achievement data were the most widespread form of data that principals used; second, principals' work has been reshaped by teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Use, Academic Achievement, Teacher Evaluation
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Nathan Dadey; Brian Gong; Yun-Kyung Kim; Edynn Sato – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
"Through-year assessments" are assessments that are administered in multiple parts and at different times over the course of a school year that also produce summative scores that can be used with state accountability systems (Lorié et al., 2021; Dadey & Gong, 2023). These assessments are alternatively known as instructionally…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Time Perspective, Summative Evaluation
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Maati Wafford – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2024
Action research is an essential practice that aligns deeply with how Montessori tasks educators with being scientists, saints, and servants. These three roles anchor educators' understanding and efforts as they seek to incorporate action research into Montessori pedagogy. In this article, the author offers a way to incorporate critical reflection…
Descriptors: Action Research, Montessori Method, Critical Thinking, Reflection
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