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Mark A. Elgart – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Shifts in the education system to more student-centered learning will require state and local education agencies to rethink how they do their work. Current accountability systems focus on compliance with standards, as demonstrated in annual summative assessments. Mark Elgart explains that a new approach to accountability will offer more authentic…
Descriptors: School Districts, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Florida Department of Education, 2024
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. There are four important reasons for creating a data-driven accountability system for adult education programs: (1) WIOA mandates that states develop a data-driven accountability system to establish and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation, High School Equivalency Programs, Students with Disabilities
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Meghan B. Buchanan – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
In this article, I present the construct of scared leadership as a theoretical explanation for the gradual decrease in courageous behavior as educators move from the classroom to campus and district level leadership. Scared leadership is a construct that can be used in future work to better understand and articulate the relationship between fear…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Fear, Public Education, School Culture
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Stuart A. Miller; Sara J. Finney – Assessment Update, 2024
A simple act of motivation priming can significantly impact the validity of test results, which is crucial for institutional accountability. The progression of the studies discussed in this article illustrates a clear trajectory of building upon previous findings to refine and expand the understanding of motivation priming when gathering…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Intervention, Behavior Modification
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Kristina F. Brezicha; Kara M. Kavanagh; Anne E. Martin; Teresa R. Fisher-Ari – Urban Education, 2024
Accountability-era reforms have promulgated a discourse of crisis and a looming threat for public schools. While these threats negatively affect all, this paper focuses on how schools' responses to these threats shape novice Teach for America Corp Members' (CM) socialization. By analyzing nearly 6,000 daily reflections from 38 CMs about their…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Schools, Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification
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Aleksandra Karosas; Lichuan Ye – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Contact tracing is essential to help monitor and control the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 virus. Many universities across the United States have developed and implemented contact tracing programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this viewpoint article, we characterized and reflected on the unique challenges of contact tracing in…
Descriptors: Barriers, Disease Control, Public Health, COVID-19
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Carly Berwick; Kayla Luga; Emily Zhang – Educational Forum, 2024
In this co/autoethnographic account of a school-based cyber-bullying incident, the authors discuss the challenges of current anti-bullying approaches in schools. In the incident, male-identifying students were alleged to have engaged in online gender-based abuse of female-­identifying students. The authors identify three key themes toward…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Bullying, Sexual Harassment
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Seibert, Andrew Douglas – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Previous methodological discussions in TESOL Quarterly (TQ) discuss imperatives for transparent and reflexive research practices and reporting (Derrick, 2016; Rabbidge, 2017). This article follows these methodological discussions by considering issues in second language (L2) and multilingual transcription by inspecting transcription and analyzing…
Descriptors: Transcripts (Written Records), Multilingualism, Accountability, Access to Information
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Mayger, Linda K. – Elementary School Journal, 2022
Since US state policy makers reformed their teacher evaluation systems in the mid-2010s, the scholarly literature has paid little attention to the classroom-level measures of student learning growth that many states repurposed as teacher performance measures. This study addresses the gap by documenting teachers' and principals' experiences with…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
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Vinall, Caroline – Management in Education, 2022
Multi-Academy Trusts (MAT) have developed organically in England since 2010. As a result, there appears to be a lack of consistency in the interpretation of delegated responsibilities of Local Governing Bodies (LGB). In a small-scale study of Headteacher (HT) accountability within one English MAT, governance was revealed as a major cause for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Boards of Education, Principals
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Waguespack, Leslie J.; Yates, David J.; Babb, Jeffry S. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2022
The Computing Curriculum 2020 project report, CC2020, Paradigms of Global Computing Education prescribes a competency model for describing curricula that challenges baccalaureate curriculum design to integrate "knowing why" into a fifty-year tradition of guidelines focused on "knowing what." Prescribing this competency model is…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Computer Science Education, Professionalism, Career Readiness
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Namyenya, Angella; Zeller, Manfred; Rwamigisa, Patience B.; Birner, Regina – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: To assess the performance of agricultural extension managers and the factors influencing it in the case study of Uganda. Design/methodology/approach: Secondary data was analysed using descriptive statistics and econometric models. Findings: The amount of extension grant received and the education of the extension manager positively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, Rural Extension, Extension Agents
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Arellano, Lucy, Jr.; Cuellar, Marcela G.; Gonzalez, Amber M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2022
This chapter invites higher education to reimagine accountability within a backdrop of budgeting and financing as it relates to Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). The authors call for more transparency in their pursuit of Latinx-specific funding and the implementation of race-evasive spending. Examples of how institutions, students, and funders…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Dench, Daniel L.; Joyce, Theodore J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Cheating
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2022
The "Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 (HES Framework)" sets out the admissions standards for all registered higher education providers. The "National Code of Practice for Providers of Education and Training to Overseas Students" 2018 (National Code) includes admissions standards where higher…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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