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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
Doherty, Catherine – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
Since 2009, all Australian states require young people to be "earning or learning" until age 17. Secondary schools and vocational colleges now accommodate students for whom the conventional academic pathways of the past were not designed. The paper reflects on a project designed to explore the moral orders in these institutional settings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Nolan, Andrea; Paatsch, Louise – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
Learning through play has traditionally been a central tenet in early childhood education, however, in recent times primary schools have begun to consider the benefits of introducing a play-based approach into early years classrooms to support young children's learning, especially in the areas of language and literacy. This study focuses on the…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Professional Identity
Marsh, Scott; Waniganayake, Manjula; De Nobile, John J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
School improvement is a central focus for school leaders. Whilst measures such as high-stakes testing and other government accountability agendas have at times marred the discourse of school improvement, how schools develop their capacity to ultimately improve the core business of student learning remains important. As an extensive area of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Evidence Based Practice, Leaders
Leathersood, Darnell; Payne, Charles – Grantee Submission, 2016
This review examines four books that may offer some insight into what the discussion about educational policy, reform, and performance may look like after the era of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Collectively, "The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling" by Jal Mehta,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy
Fitzgerald, Tanya; Savage, Julia – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2013
In this article, we argue that leadership of schools is a form of performance that has become ritualised and routinised through the official scripting of policy texts that mandate how leadership of schools should occur. Our interrogation of recent policy scripts in Australia reveals that there is limited scope for leadership in schools to occur as…
Descriptors: Leadership, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Educational Policy
Blackberry, Gina; Kearney, Judith; Glen, Matthew – Educational Action Research, 2019
In contemporary educational settings, school leaders and teachers face increased accountability and pressure to raise student performance. Utilising professional learning to develop individual and collective capability is a common feature of these settings. In Australia, there is evidence that many schools have implemented action research to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Faculty Development, Performance Based Assessment
Paveling, Barry; Vidovich, Lesley; Oakley, Grace – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
This paper discusses the findings of a study on the production and enactment of physical education (PE) curriculum policy reforms in an Australian context. Over a decade, significant senior school reforms in Western Australia (WA) interacted with the introduction of an Australian Curriculum that rendered curriculum development dynamic and complex.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Hardy, Ian; Lewis, Steven – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article provides insights into teachers' and school administrators' responses to the current "fetishisation" of school performance data in Australian schooling. Specifically, the research investigates the accountability practices that emerged in a Queensland metropolitan primary school in response to this broader focus upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Administrators, Educational Practices
Heffernan, Amanda – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2018
One aspect of instructional leadership is the work principals undertake in supporting and developing teachers' skills and capabilities. This paper examines this aspect of school leadership within a climate characterised by increased principal workloads, heavy external accountabilities, pressure to improve student results, and heightened autonomy…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Work Environment, Accountability
Gray, Ben; Hilder, Jo; Macdonald, Lindsay; Tester, Rachel; Dowell, Anthony; Stubbe, Maria – Research Ethics, 2017
Research ethics guidelines grew out of several infamous episodes where research subjects were exploited. There is significant international synchronization of guidelines. However, indigenous groups in New Zealand, Canada and Australia have criticized these guidelines as being inadequate for research involving indigenous people and have developed…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research, Guidelines, Cultural Relevance
Fowler, Craig – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
Internationally, Australia's tertiary education system, comprising the higher education and vocational education and training (VET) sectors, is highly regarded, with both sectors subject to ongoing national review and reforms. This paper explores in detail the multiple issues that lie at what might be termed the "boundaries and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends
Kilderry, Anna – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Operating within a neoliberal education reform context, performativity and teaching in schools has been a focus of study for a number of years. However, less is known about the effects of performativity on teaching and curriculum in the early childhood (preschool) context. Making a case for the intensification of performativity in Australian early…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Accountability, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
Brix, Jacinta; Grainger, Peter; Hill, Angela – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Accountability agendas are influencing the secondary education sector in Australian schools. Analysis of student achievement, student feedback mechanisms and personal reflection are forming part of these agendas as methods of teacher evaluation. Additionally, and more recently, teacher evaluation through "peer review" is emerging as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, Interviews
Moore, Alex; Clarke, Matthew – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This study provides a critical exploration of the way teachers' attachment to notions of professionalism may facilitate a process whereby teachers find themselves obliged to enact centralised and local education policies that they do not believe in but are required to implement. The study argues that professionalism involves an entanglement of…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism