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Moses, Ingrid – Higher Education Policy, 2007
Australian universities have enjoyed large-scale autonomy. In a society that increasingly regards university education from an instrumentalist point of view, universities' anxious safeguarding of their autonomy is widely seen as an attempt to evade accountability. Yet there has been an acceptance that a corollary to autonomy is accountability.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Accountability, Institutional Autonomy
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Smyth, John – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2008
Australia has been one of the countries to most enthusiastically embrace the neo-liberal conditions conducive to the dismantling of equitably provided public schooling. The article argues that part of the explanation for the absence of any effective challenge to this trajectory lies in the contradictory nature of the Australian identity. The…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Private Education, Middle Class, School Choice
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Illesca, Bella; Doecke, Brenton – English in Australia, 2008
This article interrogates the dominant ideology that is shaping education in Victoria at the current moment. It does so by analysing the government school publication, "Education Times," focusing on the years 2000-2003. During those years the Victorian Government invested a significant amount of money into improving the literacy outcomes…
Descriptors: Ideology, School Publications, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Sheppard, Ian – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2008
Constructivist pedagogies are generally not considered to support the teaching of mathematics for externally assessed examination-based courses. In large part, teachers have believed that such approaches are inefficient in covering a set syllabus. This article summarises the author's learning journey in Year 12 mathematics in 2004 where attempts…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Grade 12, Secondary School Mathematics
Beckner, Gary, Ed.; Prause, Kelley, Ed. – Association of American Educators Foundation, 2008
"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) Historical Change (Barbara R. Davidson); (2)…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Public Schools, Teachers, Federal Legislation
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Bekessy, S. A.; Samson, K.; Clarkson, R. E. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2007
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the impact and value of non-binding agreements or declarations in achieving sustainability in universities. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University is presented, analysing the reasons for lack of progress towards sustainability and evaluating best…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Educational Change, Accountability, Foreign Countries
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Stewart, Douglas J. – Education and Urban Society, 2006
In previous eras, teacher training institutions included programs designed to enhance the moral qualities of prospective teachers. With the exception of programs offered in denominational teacher training colleges, such programs have largely ceased to exist. This article advances the argument against a backdrop of increasing incidents of abuse of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Educational History, Teacher Education
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Leung, Constant; Rea-Dickins, Pauline – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
Assessment has been at centre stage of educational reform in England and Wales in the past 15 years. This article argues that official educational assessment policy is essentially indifferent to the technical, pedagogic, and epistemological issues related to different forms of assessment. Policymakers are primarily concerned with…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment
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Black, P.; Wiliam, D. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In recent years, a number of analyses assessments used in different countries have appeared. Analyses emerging from international comparisons such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have focused on what might be termed "cross-sectional" comparisons;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Measurement, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Lykins Chad R.; Heyneman, Stephen P. – Center on Education Policy, 2008
This paper contributes to the debate over how the federal government can best help state and local authorities improve student achievement by providing examples from other countries of innovations in the role of the national government. The authors believe that the degree to which foreign policy structures parallel those of the United States are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Government Role, Standard Setting, Educational Change
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Toma, J. Douglas – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
Considering accountability, affordability, and access through the experiences in Chile, East Asia, Australia, Croatia, and the United States offers a clear reminder that trends and issues in higher education are often more similar across national contexts than they are distinct. Across higher education, institutions and systems are responding to…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Lee, Michael D.; Paradowski, Michael J. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2007
We consider group decision-making on an optimal stopping problem, for which large and stable individual differences have previously been established. In the problem, people are presented with a sequence of five random numbers between 0 and 100, one at a time, and are required to choose the maximum of the sequence, without being allowed to return…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Problem Solving, Individual Differences, Comparative Analysis
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Lewis, Darrell R.; Hendel, Darwin D.; Kallsen, Lincoln – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
There has developed moderate discussion in European higher education about the use of performance indicators for both accountability and evaluation purposes. This paper begins by summarizing governmental expectations, institutional objections, and several of the controversies surrounding performance measures. We then report on using performance…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
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Sharma, Rajendra – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
The Australian higher education system has experienced significant changes since the mid-1980s. Notable are introduction of an income-contingent loan (the Higher Education Contribution Scheme) for "government" funded places; changing from aid to trade with respect to international students, including introduction of full fees for such…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Government, Accountability, Public Agencies
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Saltmarsh, Sue – Critical Studies in Education, 2008
This paper considers the discursive production of violence in the context of educational markets. Drawing on a larger study of sexually violent incidents that occurred in an elite private boys' school in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, the paper examines disciplinary traditions and communicative practices surrounding these events. Insights from Michel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Private Schools, Competitive Selection
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