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A. Cohen-Zamir; D. Vedder-Weiss – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
Previous studies have paid little attention to teachers` self or collegial considerations when making decisions about their students, precisely their tendency to avoid being blamed for students` failure. When a teacher is blamed for a student's difficulties, her/his public image ('face') is threatened, and s/he and her/his colleagues can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Decision Making
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Tamir, Emanuel; Schechter, Chen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
Through a sense-making lens, this qualitative study explores high school principals' considerations while they perceive and enact additional resources within a national reform implementation. Principals' allocation of resources, especially as part of a national reform, is a complex matter for schools' effectiveness in an era of accountability.…
Descriptors: Principals, Resource Allocation, Educational Change, Program Implementation
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Oplatka, Izhar – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: In order to fill the gap in theoretical and empirical knowledge about the characteristics of principal workload, the purpose of this paper is to explore the components of principal workload as well as its determinants and the coping strategies commonly used by principals to face this personal state. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Principals, Faculty Workload, Accountability, Qualitative Research
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Feniger, Yariv; Israeli, Mirit; Yehuda, Smadar – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
The use of standardised tests as a central tool in education policy has in recent decades become a common feature of many national education systems. In 2002 the Israeli Ministry of Education introduced new mandatory state tests for primary and middle schools. The article describes the adoption of these low-stakes tests and assesses their impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Primary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Perelman, Uri – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
Many public and private sector organizations are supported by Management Information Systems (MIS) for collection, management, analysis, and distribution of the data needed for effective decision-making and enhanced organizational management. The existing body of research on MIS in education focuses on the systems' contribution to achieving…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Management Systems, Accountability, Correlation
Lavy, Victor – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
There are large differences across countries in instructional time in schooling institutions. Can these differences explain some of the differences across countries in pupils' achievements in different subjects? While research in recent years provides convincing evidence about the effect of several inputs in the education production function,…
Descriptors: Productivity, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement