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Christian Buerger; Jane Arnold Lincove; Catherine Mata – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
School autonomy has been and continues to be one of the most important education reform strategies around the world despite ambiguity about its theoretical and empirical effects on students learning. We use international data from PISA to test three country-level factors that might account for inconsistent results in prior literature: (1) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Hwa, Yue-Yi – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
Despite a growing emphasis in education policy on 'what works for whom and in what circumstances', there is still considerable attention to decontextualised 'best practices' that emerge from cross-country comparisons of student achievement. Also, while operational and even political aspects of context are increasingly incorporated into policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
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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
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Lundahl, Christian; Serder, Margareta – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
How can we understand the uncertainties in high-stake measures such as PISA in relation to the claims that different authorities make from them? In this paper, we use a rather remarkable case from Sweden involving conflicting interpretations of the PISA 2018 results at a national political level and a fight over statistics between two national…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Zhan, Xi; Cao, Min – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: Principal instructional leadership and teacher participation in decision-making are conceptualized as shared instructional leadership (SIL) -- a management philosophy that positively impacts student academic performance. However, the statistically meaningful relationship between SIL and student performance remains controversial as SIL…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Principals, Teacher Participation
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Clare Brooks; Joanna McIntyre; Trevor Mutton – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This paper examines how the policy process around initial teacher education (ITE) during the pandemic of 2020 was experienced by the leaders of ITE programmes across England. Education policies, it is argued, are solutions to perceived problems, revealing latent values that drive action. Group interviews with leaders of ITE programmes across the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Professionalism
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Teltemann, Janna; Jude, Nina – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019
International Large-scale Student Assessments are the most prominent example of internationalization processes in education. A number of studies have analysed the policy reactions to such studies, particularly to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study. PISA and…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, International Assessment, Accountability, Incidence
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Bokhove, Christian; Jerrim, John; Sims, Sam – Journal of School Choice, 2023
School inspections are a key component of the accountability system in many education systems, including England. The judgments and reports produced through these inspections are widely used by parents when they are choosing a school for their children. But should they be? This paper presents new evidence on this issue. We illustrate how parents…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Secondary School Students, School Choice, Information Sources
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Kemethofer, David; Weber, Christoph; Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz, Stefan; Pashiardis, Petros – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: In an era of increased autonomy and accountability in education, school principals have been given the responsibility for many tasks that used to be centralized, such as hiring and managing personnel, ensuring that the curriculum is followed and that the development of the school is on the right path. In this study an exploration is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Principals, Accountability
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Doyle, Ann Margaret – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article examines French and English average performances and educational inequality in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) between 2000 and 2018. It asks why English average scores in 2018 are much higher than those of France when they were fairly similar in previous PISA assessments. It questions why the impact of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries
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Vanderburg, Robert M.; Trotter, Paul – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Teachers have come under increased pressure to improve educational outcomes as Australia has sought to meet the challenges of competing on an international level. This intensified pressure has been accompanied by improved levels of funding, a National Curriculum for all Australian states, and territories, along with assessments to measure these…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Resilience (Psychology), Student Development, Foreign Countries
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Verger, Antoni; Parcerisa, Lluís; Fontdevila, Clara – Educational Review, 2019
The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) is expanding internationally and reaching countries that seemed to be immune to this education reform approach until quite recently. Accordingly, more and more educational systems in the world are articulated around three main policy principles: accountability, standards and decentralisation. National…
Descriptors: Measurement, Global Education, Educational Change, Accountability
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Fischer, Jessica; Praetorius, Anna-Katharina; Klieme, Eckhard – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
Valid cross-country comparisons of student learning and pivotal factors contributing to it, such as teaching quality, offer the possibility to learn from outstandingly effective educational systems across the world and to improve learning in classrooms by providing policy relevant information. Yet, it often remains unclear whether the instruments…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Quality, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Lan, Yuting – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This article problematizes the way of thinking schooling in discourse of sign system, which involves opposition, and double gesture of inclusion/exclusion. Drawing on two fundamental texts of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu, this article puts forward the seemingly passive Non-Word and Non-Self to resist the hierarchy ordering of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Asian Culture, Religion, Educational History
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Turhan, Suphi; Güneyli, Ahmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This article presents a mixed method study on how to develop a participatory education management model as an alternative to the Turkish education administration system. Consisting of qualitative and quantitative methods, the mixed research method has been adopted to acquire the required data. Qualitative phase the education administration systems…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Administration, School Districts, Foreign Countries
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