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Blame Avoidance and Facework in Teachers` Collaborative Decision-Making
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A. Cohen-Zamir; D. Vedder-Weiss – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
Previous studies have paid little attention to teachers` self or collegial considerations when making decisions about their students, precisely their tendency to avoid being blamed for students` failure. When a teacher is blamed for a student's difficulties, her/his public image ('face') is threatened, and s/he and her/his colleagues can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Decision Making
Principals' Sense-Making of Resource Allocation within a National Reform Implementation
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Tamir, Emanuel; Schechter, Chen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
Through a sense-making lens, this qualitative study explores high school principals' considerations while they perceive and enact additional resources within a national reform implementation. Principals' allocation of resources, especially as part of a national reform, is a complex matter for schools' effectiveness in an era of accountability.…
Descriptors: Principals, Resource Allocation, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Is the Sky the Limit to Education Improvement?
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Schleicher, Andreas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
International educational benchmarks make disappointing reading for Americans, but they also indicate a way forward. PISA results show strong performance is possible. Whether in Japan, Korea, Finland or Canada, many countries display strong overall performance and show socioeconomic background doesn't determine results. Some countries show that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Benchmarking, Global Approach
Do Differences in School's Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps in Math, Science, and Reading? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries. NBER Working Paper No. 16227
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Lavy, Victor – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
There are large differences across countries in instructional time in schooling institutions. Can these differences explain some of the differences across countries in pupils' achievements in different subjects? While research in recent years provides convincing evidence about the effect of several inputs in the education production function,…
Descriptors: Productivity, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
Teacher Accountability: An Experimental Field Study.
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Rosenblatt, Zehava; Shimoni, Ofer – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 2001
Studied the impact of accountability on effectiveness in the teaching of physical education. Findings for classes of 50 Israeli teachers show that the institution of an accountability system that featured reporting and feedback between teachers and the supervisor improved teacher effectiveness as evidenced by student achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Accountability in Arab Bedouin Schools in Israel: Accountable to Whom?
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Mizel, Omar – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
"School-based management" (SBM) rose to become a prominent trend in educational reform in Western countries during the last few decades of the 20th century and has likewise been introduced into a number of Asian and African nations. A key component of SBM is the increase of internal accountability within the school with the aim of…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Accountability