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Johannes Lunde Hatfield; Tone Elin T. Soløst – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the Norwegian education system has shown a growing inclination towards performance-based management. This mixed-methods study aims to gain a deeper understanding of Norwegian primary school teachers' perceptions of the implementation and application of the National Quality Assessment System. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
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Jeff Strietzel; Ryan W. Erck – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
As demonstrated through the experiences of executive administrators who lost their jobs, higher education leaders experience pain when they fail. Leaders at any stage of their life and career can process the pain of failure in constructive ways using a recovery formula built on a "half-life of pain" concept. The time it takes for a…
Descriptors: Failure, Employment, Employment Experience, Job Performance
Amy Loyd – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
On February 23, 2024, the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor (the Departments) published a final rule in the "Federal Register" (89 FR 13814) that defines the sixth performance indicator--effectiveness in serving employers--as "Retention with the Same Employer" in the second and fourth quarters following a participant's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Labor Turnover, Attachment Behavior, Group Unity
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Javier Mula-Falcón; Katia Caballero – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Improving and assuring the quality of higher education has become a key element of policy agendas worldwide. To this end, a complete accountability system has been developed through various evaluation procedures. Specifically, this study analyzes the perceptions of university teaching staff on the impact of performance appraisal systems…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Evaluation
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Rebecca L. Pharmer; Christopher D. Wickens; Benjamin A. Clegg – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
In two experiments, we examine how features of an imperfect automated decision aid influence compliance with the aid in a simplified, simulated nautical collision avoidance task. Experiment 1 examined the impact of providing transparency in the pre-task instructions regarding which attributes of the task that the aid uses to provide its…
Descriptors: Accountability, Automation, Compliance (Psychology), Task Analysis
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Moira Hulme; Abigail Comber; Eli Jones; Julian Grant; John Baumber – Curriculum Journal, 2024
Teacher evaluation and teachers' professional learning are too often confined to separate areas of research and professional practice. Rather than approach evaluation and enquiry as distinct or irreconcilable, this paper applies the ideas of Stenhouse to explore new possibilities for the reappropriation of mandated appraisal in ways that support…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Evaluation, Laboratory Schools, Foreign Countries
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Rejoice Nsibande; Maropeng Modiba – Ethnography and Education, 2024
The paper reports on a study that explored selected lecturers' perspectives and discourses on a university's Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) policy in South Africa; particularly what the policy prioritised in terms of purpose and evaluation processes. It also reports on the lecturers' reflections on the additional questions they included in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes
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Kevin Proudfoot; Pete Boyd – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This article considers the motivations of teachers to pursue ongoing professional learning. During recent decades, the international policy context has been characterised by high-stakes accountability, but the implications of this agenda for teachers' motivations toward professional learning remains under-explored. In this mixed methods study,…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Faculty Development, Teacher Education, Accountability
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Mohan Dhall – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
This article provides insights into stakeholders' challenges while bringing educational accountability to private tutoring providers through a self-regulation model. There is no participant involved in this narrative inquiry study. Policymakers may be ambivalent about bringing accountability as their families may benefit from private tutoring.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Private Education, Tutoring
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Javiera Marfán – Educational Policy, 2025
Chile has followed the international trend of implementing a standards-based reform, with the particularity of encompassing both academic and non-academic outcomes. Drawing on interview data from four school cases in Santiago, Chile, this study examines the role of attitudes in reform enactment, analyzing whether and how school actors' attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Academic Standards
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Karin Lohwasser; Caroline Long; Soo-Yean Shim; Mark Windschitl – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
Preservice teacher performance assessments, such as the edTPA, are one of the accountability policies from states and local authorities designed to ensure the quality of beginning teachers and standardize teacher education. We studied experiences of 65 preservice teachers regarding the effect of the edTPA on their learning in field-placement…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Accountability, Equal Education
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Denitza Anguelova Charkova – Discover Education, 2024
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have made substantial strides towards incorporating sustainability into their curricula. However, the methodology of education for sustainable development (ESD) needs to be more performance-oriented and grounded in practical experience in order to foster behavioral changes towards environmental protection. The…
Descriptors: Gamification, Sustainability, Information Technology, Sustainable Development
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Rochelle Gutiérrez; Kari Kokka; Marrielle Myers – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2024
The sanctioned language around "mathematics teacher knowledge" in the US centers pedagogy, content (mathematical knowledge), and students. Yet, this teacher learning approach often promotes (explicitly or implicitly) teaching and learning of mathematics that operationalizes mathematics as rigid, as a gatekeeper, and only useful for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Ethics
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David Baidoo-Anu; Isaac Ennu Baidoo – Education Inquiry, 2024
Undergirded by "economic theory of the principal-agent problem", the study investigated secondary school teachers' perception of the influence of large-scale testing accountability on teaching and learning. Cross-sectional survey design was used. Simple random sampling was also employed to select 200 teachers for this study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
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Vuokko Kohtamäki – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This study applies resource dependence theory to address the question of how the critical resource dependence relationship emerges in the context of a university's performance agreement. This study focuses on two Nordic universities that have adopted performance agreements while simultaneously using strong performance-based state funding. Resource…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Universities
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