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Enhanced Use of Educational Accountability Data to Monitor Educational Progress of Australian Students with Focus on Indigenous Students
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Cumming, Joy; Goldstein, Harvey; Hand, Kirstine – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
In Australia, under the National Assessment Plan, educational accountability testing in literacy and numeracy (NAPLAN) is undertaken with all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 to monitor student achievement and inform policy. However, the extent to which these data have been analysed to report student progress is limited. This article reports a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Use, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
The Development of Shared Understandings of Assessment Policy: Travelling between Global and Local Contexts
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Adie, Lenore – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
In this paper, teachers' enactment of assessment policy within demands for accountability and consistency of teacher judgements is considered. Evidence is drawn from a qualitative study involving 50 middle school teachers from Queensland, Australia, who participated in online social moderation meetings with teachers located in dispersed areas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Accountability
Ensuring Instruction Changes: Evidence Based Teaching--How Can Lesson Study Inform Coaching, Instructional Rounds and Learning Walks?
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Stephens, Max – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2011
For those who are committed to Lesson Study as a means of developing teacher capacity and bringing about innovation of mathematics teaching and learning, there is value in looking at related strategies, now widely in use in several countries, which aim to achieve similar goals. In this paper, three related strategies will be examined alongside…
Descriptors: Evidence, Partnerships in Education, Educational Change, Accountability
Successful Principals: Telling or Selling? On the Importance of Context for School Leadership
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Moos, Lejf; Krejsler, John; Kofod, Klaus Kasper – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2008
This article will argue that diverse national, regional and local contexts leave different rooms for manoeuvre for school principals. The social technologies applied by the authorities (like accountability systems) can be "tight" or "loose" and so leave little or much room for principals' interpretations of what a good school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Teachers' Work and Pedagogy in an Era of Accountability
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Comber, Barbara; Nixon, Helen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
A great deal of educational policy proceeds as though teachers are malleable and ever-responsive to change. Some argue they are positioned as technicians who simply implement policy. However, how teachers go about their work and respond to reform agendas may be contingent upon many factors that are both biographical in nature and workplace…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
Integrated Curriculum in the Context of Challenges to Middle Schooling: An Australian Perspective
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Whitehead, Kay – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
In this article, the author first reviews a range of concerns about middle schooling in America, most of which are shown to have salience in Australia, to provide a context for a more detailed examination of integrated curriculum as a significant issue in contemporary middle schooling. Two examples of integrated curriculum in the Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Curriculum, Middle Schools, Accountability