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Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2017
The Department of Education and Training ('the Department') engaged Deloitte Access Economics to undertake research into the drivers of school quality in Australia, with the goal of expanding the evidence base available to the Department in analysing, evaluating and developing school policy. In particular, this work provides a new empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, School Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
Blom, Diana; Rowley, Jennifer; Bennett, Dawn; Hitchcock, Matthew; Dunbar-Hall, Peter – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
Many higher education institutions have embraced e-Learning and urge, or make compulsory, engagement by academics. Despite this, it is often the educators themselves who take the initiative to engage with innovative e-learning approaches. These approaches, in turn, can influence both peer-and institution-wide thinking about e-Learning. This paper…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials), Foreign Countries, Reflection
Liyanage, Indika; Walker, Tony; Singh, Parlo – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
Australian teacher education programmes that prepare teachers of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are confronting the nexus of two facets of globalization: transformations in the Asian region, captured in the notion of the "Asian century", and shifting conceptions of professionalism in TESOL in non-compulsory education. In…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Osborne, Sam – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2013
In the remote schooling context, much recent media attention has been directed to issues of poor attendance, low attainment rates of minimal benchmarks in literacy and numeracy, poor retention and the virtual absence of transitions from school to work. The Australian government's recent "Gonski review" ("Review of Funding for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Accountability, Underachievement
Simon, Susan E – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Teacher educators rightfully dream of delivering inspiring programs to benefit future teachers and the students they will in turn inspire. However, in the current teacher education environment in Australia, the artisan's craft of weaving rich texture and producing a masterpiece is potentially over-shadowed by the educational administrator's…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
Preston, Jane P.; Jakubiec, Brittany A. E.; Kooymans, Robin – Rural Educator, 2013
Within this article, we thematically present common challenges associated with the role of the rural principal. In this literature review, we delimit our search to work published from 2003-2013. A limitation of this study is that it represents data predominantly from American, Canadian, and Australian rural settings, restricting a global…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Principals, School Administration, Rural Schools
Devos, Anita; Somerville, Margaret – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
Globalisation has brought increasing diversity in student populations and therefore the potential for different sorts of knowledges to enter the academy. At the same time there is heightened surveillance brought about in response to the pressures of global competition, including increasing standardisation, marketisation and performativity…
Descriptors: Competition, Knowledge Level, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs
Ylimaki, Rose; Jacobson, Stephen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to utilize successful leadership practices drawn from seven nations to improve leadership preparation. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a case study approach to gain a contextualized understanding of successful leadership across seven nations. Data sources primarily featured interviews with principals,…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Organizational Culture
Kimber, Megan; Ehrich, Lisa Catherine – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The paper seeks to apply the theory of the democratic deficit to school-based management with an emphasis on Australia. This theory was developed to examine managerial restructuring of the Australian Public Service in the 1990s. Given similarities between the use of managerial practices in the public service and government schools, the…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Public Schools, Privatization, Democracy
Addison, Bruce Vincent – Pastoral Care in Education, 2012
The development of an ethos of academic care is about creating the structures, both formal and informal, that cater for the developmental learning needs of students. Such an approach celebrates individual difference in the belief that academic care will not only underpin improved academic performance but will also build confidence in the ability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Accountability, Educational Finance
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
After passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, states assumed greater responsibility for designing their own accountability and assessment systems. ESSA requires states to measure "higher order thinking skills and understanding" and encourages the use of open-ended performance assessments, which are essential for…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Portfolios (Background Materials), Task Analysis
Thompson, Greg; Cook, Ian – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
This paper examines the global policy convergence toward high-stakes testing in schools and the use of test results to "steer at a distance", particularly as it applies to policy-makers' promise to improve teacher quality. Using Deleuze's three syntheses of time in the context of the Australian policy blueprint Quality Education, this…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, High Stakes Tests, Global Approach
Kilderry, Anna – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
This paper examines teacher accountability and authority in early childhood policy. It reports on data from a study that investigated the influences affecting early childhood teacher decision-making at the preschool level in Victoria, Australia. Using a question raised by Ball "Where are the teachers in all this [policy]?" provided a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Accountability, Teacher Empowerment
Kerkham, Lyn; Nixon, Helen – Ethnography and Education, 2014
In Australia, as in many western education systems over the last two decades, discourses of accountability and performativity have reshaped education policy that has in turn reorganised the work of school leaders and teachers. One of the effects of this reorganisation is increased attention to the production, analysis and display of student…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Elementary School Students, Educational Policy, Accountability
Coates, Hamish; Seifert, Tricia – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
Assessing student learning in ways that offer students, institutions and systems with sound information is a considerable challenge for higher education. Despite demonstrable progress, a disconnect remains between methods used for assessing learning, improvement and accountability. This muddled situation is illustrated through a review of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Evaluation Criteria, Accountability