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Direct linkMcNamara, Gerry; Brown, Martin; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; O'Brien, Shivaun; Skerritt, Craig – SAGE Open, 2021
School self-evaluation (SSE) has emerged as a widely used approach to school evaluation in recent decades. This has occurred in the context of what is referred to as "New Public Management," an element of which seeks to empower public institutions to make decisions locally about improving their processes and standards. Inspection regimes…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
O'Sullivan, Eilís; Nohilly, Margaret – Education Research and Perspectives, 2019
Education in Ireland presents an idiosyncratic context. Study of this lends depth and insight to any international consideration of education, complex as this must be. This paper considers student teachers' perspectives and interpretations of leadership in primary (national) schools in Ireland. It focuses on the findings of research undertaken…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Leadership
Brown, Martin; McNamara, Gerry; O'Brien, Shivaun; Skerritt, Craig; O'Hara, Joe – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
As with school self-evaluation in most European countries, the Irish education system now promotes the involvement and inclusion of stakeholders such as parents and students in the evaluation process. Yet, in the Irish context, there is limited research exploring the role of these stakeholders in this internal mode of school evaluation. To address…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Participation, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Young, Cornelius; McNamara, Gerry; Brown, Martin; O'Hara, Joe – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2018
The concept of data-informed decision making (DIDM), a term used interchangeably with data-driven decision making (DDDM) and data-based decision making (DBDM), is relatively new to Irish education and the school planning process. This research sought to clarify what data principals use and how they use that information for school improvement…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Evidence Based Practice, Leadership
Download full textO'Donovan, Margaret – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
This study explores the challenges and opportunities in relation to developing distributed leadership practice in Irish post-primary schools. It considers school leadership within the context of contemporary distributed leadership theory. Associated concepts such as distributed cognition and activity theory are used to frame the study. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, Barriers
Smyth, Emer – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in 12 case-study schools to trace the factors influencing take-up of higher level subjects within lower secondary education. School organisation and process are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Middle Class, Working Class
