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Life in the Pressure Cooker--School League Tables and English and Mathematics Teachers' Responses to Accountability in a Results-Driven Era
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Perryman, Jane; Ball, Stephen; Maguire, Meg; Braun, Annette – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
This paper is based on case-study research in four English secondary schools. It explores the pressure placed on English and mathematics departments because of their results being reported in annual performance tables. It examines how English and maths departments enact policies of achievement, the additional power and extra resources the pressure…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
Assessment Technologies in Schools: "Deliverology" and the "Play of Dominations"
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Ball, Stephen; Maguire, Meg; Braun, Annette; Perryman, Jane; Hoskins, Kate – Research Papers in Education, 2012
This paper, based on ESRC-funded research work in four case study schools, explores the "pressures" to "deliver" which bear upon English secondary schools in relation to GCSE performance. It further illustrates the ways in which pressure is transformed into tactics which focus on particular students, with the effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Case Studies, Exit Examinations