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The Commercialisation of School Administration: One School's Enactment of a Student Management System in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Cowan, Jackie; Hogan, Anna; Enright, Eimear – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
The intensification of data collection practices in schooling -- often due to state accountability requirements -- has resulted in the widespread adoption of commercial student management systems (SMS) in schools. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a New Zealand primary school, this paper investigates its adoption of a commercial SMS, and the…
Descriptors: Commercialization, School Administration, Public Schools, Accountability
Collecting Data in One's Home Country: Negotiations, Supervisors and Ethics
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Guo, Lina – Waikato Journal of Education, 2020
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese students studying in doctoral and postgraduate programmes outside of China numbered over 600,000 (2017). A number of these students may return to China to gather data. This article explores tensions between compliance with the bounds of formal ethical approval and further research opportunities that may…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Ethics
Using Video-Conferencing for Observations and Interviews: Gathering Data from 'Home' While Studying in New Zealand
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Ahmad, Farzana Hayat – Waikato Journal of Education, 2020
The article documents the reflections on gathering data from the home country via distance while living and studying in New Zealand. These reflections strengthen the idea that data collection via distance could be a viable solution in circumstances where face-to-face data collection may not be an option. Three threads: negotiations, insider…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Data Collection, Observation, Interviews
Enhancing Labour Market Relevance and Outcomes of Higher Education: Country Note Slovenia. OECD Education Policy Perspectives. No. 58
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Hofer, Andrea-Rosalinde – OECD Publishing, 2022
This country note presents the results of an analysis of Slovenia undertaken within the Labour Market Relevance and Outcomes of Higher Education Partnership Initiative project. The project was implemented by the OECD with the support of the European Commission with the aim of helping policy makers and higher education institutions enhance the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
The 2015 CASE Asia-Pacific Alumni Relations Survey Report
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Kroll, Judith A.; Bakerman, Philip – Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2015
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) launched the volunteer-led Asia-Pacific Alumni Relations Survey in 2014 to provide a resource for alumni relations professionals to benchmark performance internally and against fellow institutions of higher education. That was the first survey CASE has done on alumni relations programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alumni, Higher Education, Benchmarking
Using Achievement Data for School-Based Curriculum Review: A Bridge Too Far?
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Robinson, Viviane; Phillips, Gwenneth; Timperley, Helen – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2002
Many school reform initiatives now require school leaders to make curriculum and resourcing decisions on the basis of evidence about their likely impact on student achievement. In this paper, we discuss the implications of this policy demand in the context of a descriptive study of schools' capacity to collect, analyze, and use collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Teacher Leadership, Resource Allocation