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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
Daniel Pettersson; Andreas Nordin – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2023
This volume centres the notion of "chance" in education as a key concept in contemporary education -- relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments -- and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "tame" this notion has had on present-day educational policy and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Use, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
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Wang, Fei; Hauseman, Cameron; Pollock, Katina – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Increasing job duties and responsibilities associated with the changing role of school principals have prompted even greater accountability. As a result, principals are faced with competing demands and expectations in various forms of accountability from multiple stakeholders. This study examines principals' perception of accountability in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Accountability, Administrator Role
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Jerrim, John; Sims, Sam – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Accountability--the monitoring and use of student performance data to make judgements about school and teacher effectiveness--is increasing within school systems across the globe. In theory, by increasing accountability, the aims and incentives of governments, parents, school leaders and teachers become more closely aligned, potentially improving…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stress Variables, Teachers, Principals
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Javier Mula-Falcón; Katia Caballero – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Improving and assuring the quality of higher education has become a key element of policy agendas worldwide. To this end, a complete accountability system has been developed through various evaluation procedures. Specifically, this study analyzes the perceptions of university teaching staff on the impact of performance appraisal systems…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Evaluation
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Samuel Essler; Markus Paulus – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Social constructivist theories have proposed that caregivers' perceptions of children as morally responsible agents are an important factor in children's moral development. However, there is substantial variance in caregivers' ascriptions of moral agency to young children. The present study examined caregiver social conformity…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Moral Values, Child Behavior
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Susan Grieshaber; Kate Highfield; Adam Duncan; Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
This article considers the realm of knowledge in early childhood education (ECE); what knowledge is valued, and how different types of knowledge position children and educators. To this end, two different examples of practice informed by different types of knowledge are provided: one from an educator working in a long day care service (Duncan) and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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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
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Moira Hulme; Abigail Comber; Eli Jones; Julian Grant; John Baumber – Curriculum Journal, 2024
Teacher evaluation and teachers' professional learning are too often confined to separate areas of research and professional practice. Rather than approach evaluation and enquiry as distinct or irreconcilable, this paper applies the ideas of Stenhouse to explore new possibilities for the reappropriation of mandated appraisal in ways that support…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Evaluation, Laboratory Schools, Foreign Countries
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Garion Frankel – Journal of School Choice, 2024
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the ensuring culture wars, the American school choice coalition has almost completely unraveled, but many school choice advocates assert that the coalition can be rebuilt. In this essay, I argue that the school choice coalition dissolved not because of politics or circumstance, but because the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, School Choice, Educational Change, Politics of Education
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Sarah M. Stitzlein – Educational Theory, 2024
Populists employ truth as a tool for aligning the people against the elite. Citizenship education rarely takes up critiques of liberal democracy, discussions of populism, or conversations about what truth is. This paper provides an alternative pragmatist vision of truth that builds on the populist call for democracy to better reflect the will of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Pragmatics, Political Attitudes
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N. Rosenblad; B. Schaffar; E. Löfström – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
The ambiguous policy-concepts 'effectivity' and 'needs' were introduced to Finnish VET. This research utilises cultural historical activity theory to analyse how different conflicting motives emerge within student counselling and to discuss the prospective development of VET. Managerialist approaches to accountability and competency-based training…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, School Counseling, Goal Orientation
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Rejoice Nsibande; Maropeng Modiba – Ethnography and Education, 2024
The paper reports on a study that explored selected lecturers' perspectives and discourses on a university's Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) policy in South Africa; particularly what the policy prioritised in terms of purpose and evaluation processes. It also reports on the lecturers' reflections on the additional questions they included in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes
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Kevin Proudfoot; Pete Boyd – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This article considers the motivations of teachers to pursue ongoing professional learning. During recent decades, the international policy context has been characterised by high-stakes accountability, but the implications of this agenda for teachers' motivations toward professional learning remains under-explored. In this mixed methods study,…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Faculty Development, Teacher Education, Accountability
West Virginia Department of Education, 2024
To ensure each county board of education provides a thorough and efficient education for its students, the West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) annually reviews county scorecards and efficiency profiles provided by the Office of Accountability. County statuses are reviewed and determined based on multiple measures of student performance and…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), County School Districts
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