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Karen Blackburn Hoeve – ProQuest LLC, 2021
High stakes test-based accountability systems primarily rely on aggregates and derivatives of scores from tests that were originally developed to measure individual student mastery of content specifications. Current validity models do not explicitly address this use of aggregate scores to measure the performance of teachers, administrators, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Test Validity, High Stakes Tests, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Sandra Jane Cantwell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Chronic absenteeism and truancy have plagued the United States for more than a century. Various interventions have been utilized, yet eight million students are absent from school every day, and seven million meet the threshold for chronic absenteeism in a school year. Some communities implemented voluntary court-based truancy diversion programs…
Descriptors: Truancy, Prevention, Intervention, Program Evaluation
Frank T. Brogan – Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2021
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act requires a grantee receiving more than $150,000 to report to the Department of Education on a quarterly basis, which the Department considers satisfied through the more frequent, monthly reporting requirements of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA).…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, COVID-19, Federal Legislation, Pandemics
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Kevin Proudfoot – Journal of Education Policy, 2025
Teachers' negative experiences of high-stakes accountability have been documented extensively, but the ways in which teachers are able to engage in tactics of resistance in response are less well known. This is most especially true in terms of the subtle, covert forms of resistance which occur through the practice of teachers' everyday working…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
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Brew, Angela; Boud, David; Lucas, Lisa; Crawford, Karin – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Universities might aspire to teaching excellence, but do they enable academic teachers to make good teaching decisions? Using a critical realist perspective, a qualitative interview study in England and Australia explored academics' experiences of teaching decisions and their responses to strategic, institutional and departmental teaching policy…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Ahmed, Eman I.; Mohammed, Amal – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2022
Given the calls to reinforce the accountability of education programmes, this review evaluated studies that evaluated K-12 global citizenship education (GCED) programmes to assess the evidence that such programmes improved the students' global learning. There are no current reviews assessing the impact of GCED programmes in the US. The authors…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Accountability, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lane, Danielle; Semon, Sarah; Catania, Nicholas; Jones, Phyllis – British Journal of Special Education, 2022
In this article we examine how, despite the understanding that a special school is not an inclusive setting, the senior leadership team (SLT) at Forest Academy Trust perceive their special schools as inclusive. Document reviews, interviews and a culminating focus group appear to indicate that possibilities for inclusive education may be related to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Special Schools, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Olaopa, Olawale R. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2022
In Africa, the processes of democratic consolidation are endangered in spite of various administrative and financial reforms having been implemented to reinforce fiscal consolidation and strengthen governance in the public sector. This then requires investigating the efficacy of these ingenuities in situations where the policy-makers wield…
Descriptors: Prevention, Deception, Money Management, Federal Aid
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Plummer, Ryan; Witkowski, Samantha; Smits, Amanda; Dale, Gillian – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
The enterprise of sustainability science extends beyond the academy to address pressing environmental issues through collaboration. It coincides with trends in higher education institutions (HEIs) towards an expanded mission for addressing societal challenges as well as greater accountability. In this paper, we aim to establish an instrument for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Partnerships in Education
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Melles, Gavin; Lodewyckx, Stefan; Hariharan, Thangatur Sukumar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study provides a country-specific and sector-wide study of campus sustainability. Campus sustainability is a key consideration for the higher education (HEI) sector, and campus sustainability officers and managers manage its reporting and planning. Global and country-specific studies to date have focussed on individual organisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Planning
Brassington, Laura, Ed. – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2022
On the back of Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, this collection brings together a wide range of authors to consider what has worked well in evaluation of UK research, what could have worked better and where the UK's higher education system should go from here. Chapters in the volume include: (1) The REF: A hydra-headed beast or an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Evaluation Research, Higher Education
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Nia, Zargham Faramarzi; Rad, Hamid Farhadi; Mehralizadeh, Yadollah; Soteh, Rahmatullah Gholipour – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2022
The main aim of the present study was to analyze the causes, outcomes, and strategies of performance-based budgeting in the Iranian higher education system. To this end, a qualitative approach based on the grounded theory was used. In order to collect reliable data, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with two groups of experts who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Budgets
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Hazi, Helen M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
While countries differ in their approach to and context of teacher evaluation, many have one thing in common--they hope it serves its formative and summative purposes. In this article, the author asks policymakers, educators and researchers to reconsider how these dual purposes are accomplished. Current approaches and research both in and outside…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Certification, Faculty Development
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Buckley, Jeffrey; Adams, Latif; Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo; Arshad, Iram; Azeem, Muhammad; Bracken, Lauryn; Breheny, Colette; Buckley, Ciara; Chimello, Ismael; Fagan, Alison; Fitzpatrick, Daniel P.; Garza Herrera, Diana; Gomes, Guilherme Daniel; Grassick, Shaun; Halligan, Elaine; Hirway, Amit; Hyland, Tomás; Imtiaz, Muhammad Babar; Khan, Muhammad Bilal; Lanzagorta Garcia, Eduardo; Lennon, Paul; Manaf, Eyman; Meng, Jing; Mohd Sufian, Mohd Sufino Zuhaily; Moraes, Adrielle; Osterwald, Katja Magdalena; Platonava, Anastasia; Reid, Clodagh; Renard, Michèle; Rodriguez-Barroso, Laura G.; Simonassi-Paiva, Bianca; Singh, Maulshree; Szank, Tomasz; Tahir, Mehwish; Vijayakumar, Sowmya; Ward, Cormac; Yan, Xinyu; Zainol, Ismin; Zhang, Lin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
A high level of transparency in reported research is critical for several reasons, such as ensuring an acceptable level of trustworthiness and enabling replication. Transparency in qualitative research permits the identification of specific circumstances which are associated with findings and observations. Thus, transparency is important for the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Accountability
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Buchanan, Michael T.; Branson, Christopher M.; Marra, Maureen – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
Middle leaders play an essential role in schools but for many their position is characterised by tensions caused by 'being caught in between or sandwiched between senior management to whom they were accountable … and subordinates for whom they had some functional and often moral responsibility'. Moreover, Catholic school middle leaders face…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Middle Management, Moral Development, Governance
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