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'Accountable to Whom, for What, and through What Means': Educational Developers in the Audit Culture
Raffoul, Jessica; Skene, Allyson; Chittle, Laura; Kartolo, Arief – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
Higher education has faced increased pressure to prove its quality through 'economic efficiency' and 'value for money', thrusting institutions into what researchers call an 'audit culture'. This study explores whether and how the audit culture has impacted educational developers in Canadian post-secondary institutions. Results include a summary of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Development, Audits (Verification), Higher Education
Cassandra Barber; Cees van der Vleuten; Saad Chahine – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
There is an expectation that health professions schools respond to priority societal health needs. This expectation is largely based on the underlying assumption that schools are aware of the priority needs in their communities. This paper demonstrates how open-access, pan-national health data can be used to create a reliable health index to…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Accountability, Public Health
Carolyn Clarke – in education, 2024
This ethnographic case study, situated in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, examined the effects of full-scale provincial testing on families, its influences on homework, and familial accountability for teaching and learning. Data were drawn from family interviews, as well as letters and documents regarding homework. Teachers sensed a significant…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Testing, Homework
Ross, Brian M.; Cameron, Erin – Higher Education Studies, 2021
Socially Accountable Medical Education is a global educational movement transforming the development and delivery of medical schools in higher education. It is described as an upstream policy approach that seeks to align medical education and local community healthcare needs. To better understand social accountability as a policy initiative, we…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Accountability, Educational Policy, Social Justice
Emerson LaCroix – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Experiential education, the process of providing students with applied learning opportunities within and outside the classroom, is rife with organizational complexity. This article examines Ontario's Strategic Mandate Agreements using qualitative content analysis to see how conceptions and communications of experiential learning have changed over…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Experiential Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
Cahill, Peter T.; Ng, Stella; Dix, Leah; Ferro, Mark A.; Turkstra, Lyn; Campbell, Wenonah N. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Measuring, assessing and managing outcomes in school practice environments is difficult due to the complex nature of school communities as well as the recent shift in service-delivery models towards tiered approaches. In tiered approaches, multiple levels of service are offered to better match students' needs. Each level of service may…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Speech Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Foreign Countries
Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.; Segeren, Allison – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
This paper investigates how test-based, standardized accountability is impacting on urban school leaders' everyday work in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. This critical policy analysis draws on theories of new public management and governmentality to document the experiences of school leaders as they enact and navigate test-based…
Descriptors: Accountability, Urban Schools, Leadership, Standardized Tests
Plummer, Ryan; Witkowski, Samantha; Smits, Amanda; Dale, Gillian – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
The enterprise of sustainability science extends beyond the academy to address pressing environmental issues through collaboration. It coincides with trends in higher education institutions (HEIs) towards an expanded mission for addressing societal challenges as well as greater accountability. In this paper, we aim to establish an instrument for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Partnerships in Education
Courtland, Darcy – Prospects, 2022
Questioning what knowledge is of most worth in the early weeks of North America's COVID-19 crisis, this article begins to reimagine the possibilities of curriculum in such unprecedented times. It reflects on the author's experiences as a doctoral student to unveil the capacity of a curriculum that emphasizes compassion, community, and relational…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, COVID-19, Pandemics, Altruism
Laura Jarrell; Dale Kirby – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the roles of quality managers at community colleges, their experiences balancing accountability and improvement and their insights into the future of quality assurance. Design/methodology/approach: This phenomenological, qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with eight community college quality…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Administrators
Bartlett, Nadine A.; Ellis, Taylor Floyd – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2021
Information about the use of physical restraint, seclusion, and time-out rooms in Canadian schools has primarily been anecdotal (media reports and anonymous survey data) due to uneven and non-existent mandates for reporting, transparency and public accountability. The absence of clearly articulated mandates to provide written documentation and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Discipline Policy, Punishment, Behavior Problems
Varmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; Falenchuk, Olesya – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2021
In the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector there is a move to reduce oversight costs by reducing the frequency of quality assessments in providers who score highly consistently across time. However, virtually nothing is known about the stability of ECEC quality assessments over time. Using a validated measure of overall classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
Nakano Koga, Silvia Mirlene; Beaupré-Lavallée, Alexandre; Bégin-Caouette, Olivier – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
At the core of New Public Management (NPM) reforms sits the concept of accountability of publicly funded organizations. In Canada, it is suggested that provinces have increased the number of accountability procedures imposed on universities and that those measures would have had an impact on professors' academic workload. This study discusses the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Universities, College Faculty
Marynowski, Richelle; Darroch, Amber; Gregory, Asta; James, Molly – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper reports on a study exploring a sustained coaching model of teacher professional development (PD). The study was undertaken with middle school teachers in a small rural school division in Alberta, Canada. The goal of the study was to theorize about the components of the sustained coaching model of PD that supported or was a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools
Puzier, Lauren M.; Nous, Rebecca A. – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
"is facebook down" trended on Google on October 4, 2021, when Facebook became temporarily globally unavailable. Web users proactively seek information when they encounter issues online. System status dashboards are one way libraries can leverage this behavior to share changes to resources or services and improve transparency, reference…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, User Satisfaction (Information), User Needs (Information), Accountability