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Piattoeva, Nelli – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
The proliferation of standardized testing and administrative statistics in compulsory education is embedded in the rise to prominence of quantified accountability as a mechanism of education governance. Numbers work by stripping away the contexts of their production and the granular and ambiguous detail of the phenomena they claim to represent.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Kim, Jonghun – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This study examines the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), one of the most influential tools of global education reform discourses in the 21st century. The study focuses on the governing role of statistical data in the discourse constructed by the international comparative assessment, referring to the global educational…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Governance, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Holligan, Chris – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The continuation of neo-liberalism requires concerted effort. Political consent is constructed through practices of enforced cultural socialisation, the mobilisations of which obfuscate other realities. David Harvey describes this process as the construction of consent. The common sense encouraged by English academy schools is the result of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Commercialization
Custer, Samantha; King, Elizabeth M.; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan; Read, Lindsay; Sethi, Tanya – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
Governments, organizations, and companies are generating copious amounts of data and analysis to support education decision-making around the world. While continued investments in data creation and management are necessary, the ultimate value of information is not in its "production," but its "use." Herein lies one of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Drezner, Noah D.; Gupta, Anubha – Journal of Negro Education, 2012
Allegations and assumptions of fiscal mismanagement at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have existed since their founding and continue today. There is little evidence that these claims, fueled by the media, legislatures, and often accrediting agencies, are actually truer than fiscal mismanagement at predominantly White…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Accountability, Audits (Verification), Racial Differences
Paino, Maria; Renzulli, Linda A.; Boylan, Rebecca L.; Bradley, Christen L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014
Purpose: Charter schools are unique public schools in part because this type of school can close if it fails to meet objectives set forth by the chartering body that approved it. Thus far, however, little research has been conducted into the causes of charter school closures. In this article, we examine charter school accountability. Research…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Failure, School Closing, Accountability
Maguire, Kenneth J.; Starobin, Soko S.; Laanan, Frankie Santos; Friedel, Janice N. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
In this study specific factors were examined to determine their ability to influence fifth-year earnings of community college students in the Manufacturing/Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) career cluster and the Arts/Audiovisual/Technology/ Communication career cluster. State and national data sets from Iowa's Management…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Community Colleges, College Students, Economic Status
Gemin, Butch; Pape, Larry; Vashaw, Lauren; Watson, John – Evergreen Education Group, 2015
Online learning has steadily become a more integral strategy for schools and districts in their efforts to offer students greater access to the courses they need. Where in the past, much of the online learning activity happened at the state level or regional level, more and more schools are exercising greater control over their online and digital…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Monpas-Huber, Jack B. – Journal of School Leadership, 2010
Accountability policies imply much about high school teachers' abilities and willingness to use state assessment data to improve instruction. This study asked what teacher- and school-level variables best predict how frequently teachers use state assessment data and how much instructional benefit they derive from use of data. Research has…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Information Utilization, Statistical Data
Ma, Xin; Shen, Jianping; Kavanaugh, Amy; Lu, Xuejin; Brandi, Karen; Goodman, Jeff; Till, Lance; Watson, Grace – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
Using multiple years of data collected from about 100 child care centers in Palm Beach County, Florida, the authors studied whether the Quality Improvement System (QIS) made a significant impact on quality of child care centers. Based on a pre- and postresearch design spanning a period of 13 months, QIS appeared to be effective in improving…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Care, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Lawton, Stephen B. – Planning and Changing, 2009
The purpose of this synthesis of the literature on charter school effectiveness is to develop a research agenda on the topic and to propose action that will lead to improved performance of charter schools. To accomplish these goals, background information is first provided including: a definition of charter schools; statistics on charter schools;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Effective Schools Research, Definitions, Statistical Data
Domina, Thurston; Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; Tienda, Marta – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act requires states to publish high school graduation rates for public schools; the U.S. Department of Education is currently considering a mandate to standardize high school graduation rate reporting. However, no consensus exists among researchers or policymakers about how to measure high school graduation rates. We use…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Longitudinal Studies
Walters, James J. – Educational Considerations, 2008
The goal of this study was to estimate the effects of district efficiency on student achievement in Michigan with the hope that objective analysis might serve to ease progress through the troublesome political process any transition to an adequacy-based school finance model will encounter. This study draws upon the methodology used by Phelps and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Parveva, Teodora; De Coster, Isabelle; Noorani, Sogol – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2009
This study produced by the Eurydice network gives a detailed picture of the context and organisation of national tests in 30 European countries and the use made of test results in informing education policy and practice and in guiding the school career of pupils. It presents the diverse choices made by European countries regarding the objectives,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, National Competency Tests, Testing, Students
Hansen, Janet S. – Education Finance and Policy, 2008
This article describes the potential for using K-12 education data to support school improvement efforts and the effective and efficient use of education resources. It examines the availability and transparency of education data in California as part of the "Getting Down to Facts" effort to improve education decision making in that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement