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Numbers and Their Contexts: How Quantified Actors Narrate Numbers and Decontextualization
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Piattoeva, Nelli – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
The proliferation of standardized testing and administrative statistics in compulsory education is embedded in the rise to prominence of quantified accountability as a mechanism of education governance. Numbers work by stripping away the contexts of their production and the granular and ambiguous detail of the phenomena they claim to represent.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Quality
School Actors' Enactment of a Performative Accountability Scheme in Russia: Tensions, Dilemmas and Strategies
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Gurova, Galina; Camphuijsen, Marjolein K. – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
In European and global educational debates, performative or test-based accountability has become central to modernizing and raising the performance of education systems. However, despite the global popularity of performative accountability modalities, existing research finds contradictory evidence on its effects, which tend to be highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Standardized Tests, Educational Policy
The Imperative to Protect Data and the Rise of Surveillance Cameras in Administering National Testing in Russia
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Piattoeva, Nelli – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
This article discusses the effects of the datafication and digitalisation of education policy in the context of the Russian Federation. It taps into the policies and practices invented as a result of rising audit cultures and the scientisation and datafication of education governance. These processes turn sites of public examinations into sites of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data, Information Security, Video Technology
Corruption in Higher Education in Russia-First Decade of the 21st Century
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Shirin, Sergey Sergeevich – International Education Studies, 2015
The study is based on a methodology proposed by European Association for Education Law and Policy for their research conducted in 2009 and devoted to commercialization, competition and corruption in European education. In the article, the attempt is made to apply their methods to analyze the problems of corruption in Russian higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Private Higher Education in Russia: Free Enterprise under State Control
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Suspitsin, Dmitry; Suspitsyna, Tatiana – European Education, 2007
This study examines the strategies that Russian private colleges and universities use to navigate the legal and normative pressures of the state in the free market of educational services. The tension between state control and free enterprise is analyzed through the prism of legitimacy as it is produced and maintained by the system of quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Design, Qualitative Research, Free Enterprise System
International Lessons about National Standards
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Schmidt, William H.; Houang, Richard; Shakrani, Sharif – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2009
Whether to adopt national standards and tests has long been a subject of lively debate in the United States. With 47 states now participating in the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and a commitment from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to allocate hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to the development of common tests, the country is…
Descriptors: State Standards, National Standards, Foreign Countries, Federal Government