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Davies, Michael; Elliott, Stephen N.; Cumming, Joy – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
Accommodations or adjustments for students with disabilities (SWDs) who need them are required in Australian education law and policy for classroom instruction and assessment, and external educational accountability tests. Drawing upon the structure of the Assessment Accommodations Checklist and more than a decade of accessibility research, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Needs, Foreign Countries, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Gowlett, Christina – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
This article takes the role of provocateur to "queer(y)" the rules of intelligibility surrounding new schooling accountabilities. Butler's work is seldom used outside the arena of gender and sexualities research. A "queer(y)ing" methodology is subsequently applied in a context very different to where it is frequently…
Descriptors: Role, Case Studies, Homosexuality, Accountability
Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
There are lessons for Australia in the key approaches to the development, approval, maintenance and quality assurance of qualifications adopted in countries overseas. This research takes into account a range of approaches used in selected European Union (EU) member states (Germany, Finland and Sweden), the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Quality Assurance, Comparative Education
McGregor, Glenda; Mills, Martin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
The data for this paper are drawn from a qualitative research project involving a number of alternative education sites in Australia and the United Kingdom. In this paper, we focus only on the motives and teaching philosophies of a sample of teachers who have chosen to work in alternative education sites despite, for some, the prospect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
Fulcher, Leon C.; Garfat, Thom – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
Outcomes measurement has become a contemporary requirement for non-profit, government, and private sector child, youth, and family service providers throughout North America as well as in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Cost-effectiveness, care planning, service evaluations, and fiscal audits are now commonplace…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Youth, Children
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2018
This report informs the Hon Dan Tehan, Minister for Education, the Parliament of Australia, the Australian higher education community and the general public about the performance of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA or the agency) during the financial year ending June 30, 2018. Prepared according to parliamentary reporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Academic Standards, Accountability
Dinham, Stephen; Collarbone, Patricia; Evans, Margery; Mackay, Anthony – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
Principals play key roles in creating the conditions in which teachers can teach effectively and students can learn. Principals are increasingly being held accountable both for teacher quality and for student learning and development so that young people can become 'successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active and informed…
Descriptors: National Standards, Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Role
Gerrard, Jessica; Farrell, Lesley – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
Globally, national curriculum policies are up for renegotiation. These negotiations are shaped by international and national top-down accountability regimes, and an increasing turn towards curriculum centralization and standardization. The new Australian Curriculum (AC) is no exception. The AC is an important educational policy event, one in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Skourdoumbis, Andrew – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2014
This paper critically examines shifts in emphasis in Australian education from expectations and belief that teachers not only make a difference to student achievement, but they are the difference. In moving from social class relations accounts to self-managing school accounts, latest shifts (teacher effectiveness accounts) over-emphasize teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics
Tobin, Mollie; Nugroho, Dita; Lietz, Petra – Research Papers in Education, 2016
This article synthesises findings from two systematic reviews that examined evidence of the link between large-scale assessments (LSAs) and education policy in economically developing countries and in countries of the Asia-Pacific. Analyses summarise evidence of assessment characteristics and policy goals of LSAs that influence education policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Ryan, Lindsay; Prince, Christopher; Turner, Paul – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
A review of the literature on corporate universities finds that the peak for research and publishing on the topic occurred between 1998 and 2002 and fell away considerably after 2005. Given the apparent lack of research during the past decade, the purpose of this paper is to present an insight into what has been happening to corporate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporate Education, Higher Education, Universities
Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
The opening-up of the market for education and training, including vocational education and training (VET), has increased the importance of regulation and quality assurance mechanisms in ensuring the integrity of qualifications. This report investigates approaches to the regulation and quality assurance of vocational education and training in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Comparative Education, Quality Assurance
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2017
This report informs Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, the Parliament of Australia, the Australian higher education community and the general public about the performance of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA or the agency) during the financial year ending 30 June 2017. Prepared according…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Academic Standards, Accountability
Blomkamp, Emma – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2014
Taking an interpretive approach to evidence-based policy, this article illustrates the rhetorical and situated uses of evidence in two case studies of local cultural policy. Broadly defined as policy-relevant knowledge, evidence is selectively used by council officers in the development, delivery, and evaluation of arts programmes at two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Municipalities, Culture
Allard, Andrea C.; Mayer, Diane; Moss, Julianne – Australian Educational Researcher, 2014
In this paper, we challenge the current focus on "best practice", graduate teacher tests, and student test scores as the panacea for ensuring teaching quality and argue for ways of thinking about evidence of quality beginning teaching outside and beyond the current neoliberal accountability discourses circulating in Australia and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Neoliberalism, Teacher Effectiveness