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Comparison of Inspection Instruments in Centrally Governed Cypriot Turkish Education with Some European Union Countries Which Adopted Participatory Government Approach
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Uysal, Merve; Öznacar, Behçet – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
The purpose of this study is to compare education and inspection systems and to reveal their similarities and differences in terms of structuring and functioning. Thus, it is aimed to make suggestions about education supervision in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by determining its current state. In the study, the educational supervision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Educational Administration, Administrative Organization
Autonomy and Accountability in Schools Serving Disadvantaged Communities
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Klein, Esther Dominique – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: Increased school autonomy and accountability have been a common denominator of national reforms in otherwise heterogeneous governance systems in Europe and the USA. The paper argues that because schools serving disadvantaged communities (SSDCs) often have lower average performance, they are more often sanctioned or under closer scrutiny,…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Accountability, Disadvantaged Schools, Regression (Statistics)
Data-Based School Improvement: The Role of Principals and School Supervisory Authorities within the Context of Low-Stakes Mandatory Proficiency Testing in Four German States
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Ramsteck, Carolin; Muslic, Barbara; Graf, Tanja; Maier, Uwe; Kuper, Harm – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how principals and school supervisory authorities understand and use feedback from mandatory proficiency tests (VERA) in the low-stakes context of Germany. For the analysis, the authors refer to a theoretical model of schools that differentiates between Autonomous and Managed Professional…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Principals, Administrator Role, School Supervision
Towards State-Mandated Testing in Germany: How Do Teachers Assess the Pedagogical Relevance of Performance Feedback Information?
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Maier, Uwe – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2009
The paper analyses how teachers view state-mandated tests in Baden-Wurttemberg, a large state in the south-west of Germany. For the first time in 2006, public secondary schools were bound by law to administer "Vergleichsarbeiten" [state-wide tests] in up to three relevant subjects after Grade 6. Scholars in the field of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Measurement
Accountability Policies and Teachers' Acceptance and Usage of School Performance Feedback--A Comparative Study
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Maier, Uwe – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
This paper implemented a comparative approach to investigate the relationships between test-based school accountability policies in 2 German states and teachers' acceptance and usage of feedback information. Thuringia implemented mandatory tests for secondary schools based on competency modeling and performance data controlled for socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Teachers, Accountability
The Federal Role in Education: Lessons from Australia, Germany, and Canada
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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