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Teachers Gaming the System: Exploring Opportunistic Behaviours in a Low-Stakes Accountability System
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Direct linkGerard 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
Edgar Quilabert; Antoni Verger; Mauro C. Moschetti; Gerard Ferrer-Esteban; Marcel Pagès – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Contemporary educational reforms emphasise school autonomy, performance-based management, and accountability as necessary policies for attaining improvement goals. Despite their widespread adoption, the configuration and enactment of these policies are discretionary and contingent, deeply influenced by the interaction of local contexts,…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Improvement, Governance, Educational Policy
Marcel Pagès; Gerard Ferrer-Esteban; Antoni Verger; Miriam Prieto – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
School systems are shifting towards forms of post-bureaucratic governance (PBG), implying higher levels of school autonomy, choice, and performance-based management. Under this governance approach, which combines forms of administrative and market accountability, schools face greater levels of competition and external pressure to perform. Schools…
Descriptors: Governance, Institutional Autonomy, Performance Based Assessment, Accountability
