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Miran Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study compared the Outcome Measures (OM) to the traditional Graduation Rates (GR) to ascertain if OM portrayed the performance of higher education institutions differently than GR and to determine which of the two metrics aligned better with accountability policy objectives. GR refers to the percentages of first-time, full-time students who…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Policy
Rabinowitz, Chanina, Ed.; Reichel, Michael, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023
Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals. This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a successful search. This book also offers current thinking and research to help school boards and policy makers retain the professional leaders they have. This…
Descriptors: Principals, Recruitment, Labor Turnover, Educational Policy
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Dones, Miguel D., Jr.; Estremera, Michael L.; Deuda, Ma. Jean D. – European Journal of Educational Management, 2023
The highlighted local and international perspectives of school-based management (SBM) offer logical findings on its efficacy at the grassroots level. Despite some hindering factors, its impact along leadership and governance, curriculum and learning, accountability and continuous improvement, and resource management are commendable. After…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Accountability, Governance, Educational Improvement
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Sessoms, Amber M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article explores the impact of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and White rage on critical consciousness-raising. It argues for a reimagining of our democracy as a practice for collective liberation. This article then outlines a framework for social justice that moves beyond liberalism to self-interrogation, centering historically minoritized…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Whites, Racism
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Raffoul, Jessica; Skene, Allyson; Chittle, Laura; Kartolo, Arief – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
Higher education has faced increased pressure to prove its quality through 'economic efficiency' and 'value for money', thrusting institutions into what researchers call an 'audit culture'. This study explores whether and how the audit culture has impacted educational developers in Canadian post-secondary institutions. Results include a summary of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Development, Audits (Verification), Higher Education
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Cheng, Liying; Baidoo-Anu, David; DeLuca, Christopher – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Principals play a key leadership role in school effectiveness and student success; however, one area that has received relatively little attention so far is principals' embedded understanding of assessment and grading within the educational context where they work. We examined 141 Chinese school principals' conceptions of assessment and grading…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2023
In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) passed its first private school voucher legislation with the introduction of the Opportunity Scholarship Program. The program was designed to provide private school tuition assistance to income-eligible families who chose to withdraw their child from public school and it represents a significant…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Private Schools, Accountability, Educational Policy
Fletcher, Andrea Dawnyell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In college athletics, there appears to be evidence of misalignment between stated commitments and institutional practices. Though institutions publicly promote equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), college athletic departments have failed to create large scale systemic change in the representation and retention of women and people of color.…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Presidents, Equal Education, Diversity
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Keane, Ann – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
This article traces how some features of school inspection in England and Wales have changed since Her Majesty's Inspectorate was first established in 1839. The article describes how the inspectorate began its work; how, later on, a series of reviews and changes to legislation affected the exercise of its accountability and advisory functions; how…
Descriptors: Inspection, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Change
Maria D. Flowers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to understand why disparate healthcare between White Americans and minoritized populations has been allowed to persist despite decades of research about unequal treatment. It is widely proven and accepted that systemic racism drives health disparities yet disparate health outcomes continue to rise for minoritized populations.…
Descriptors: Racism, Health Services, Stakeholders, Corporations
Young, Travis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study was designed to explore campus administrators' best practices to achieve a campus rating of a B or better in the Texas Education Agency A-F rating system. This study takes an in-depth look at the various roles and responsibilities campus administrators' have to exhibit to influence campus accountability. The phenomenological study…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Program Implementation, Accountability
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Ersan, Ozge; Berry, Yufeng – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2023
The increasing use of computerization in the testing industry and the need for items potentially measuring higher-order skills have led educational measurement communities to develop technology-enhanced (TE) items and conduct validity studies on the use of TE items. Parallel to this goal, the purpose of this study was to collect validity evidence…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability
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Schneider, Jack; Gottlieb, Derek – Educational Theory, 2021
State and federal policymakers "see" school performance via formal measures -- data collected with attendance sheets and standardized tests. Such an approach, though not without its merits, is extremely limited and inherently exposed to the threat of systematic misperception and unintended consequences, especially as policymakers try to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Education, Governance, Educational Assessment
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Brady, Alison M. – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
Current conceptions of accountability imply that, in order for teachers to be able to hold themselves to account, they need first to have cultivated certain 'professional dispositions'. But these conceptions fail to acknowledge the extent to which teachers are first and foremost accountable 'as such'. For the early existentialist thought of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Philosophy, Professionalism, Standards
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Aydarova, Elena – Educational Policy, 2022
In the 2010s, teacher education witnessed the rise of accountability regimes. Studies examining efforts to introduce teacher preparation accountability focused predominantly on federal or state actors, leaving the involvement of intermediary organizations in the construction of these regimes largely underexplored. To address this gap, I analyze…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Accountability, Advocacy
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