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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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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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Penninckx, Maarten – Management in Education, 2020
Improving the quality of education is a permanent concern for national policymakers. In that regard, a growing number of education systems have implemented a monitoring system where pupils have to take standardised tests at regular intervals during their school career (OECD, 2013). This article aims to offer food for thought to the readers of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
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Teltemann, Janna; Windzio, Michael – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
What are crucial determinants of a country's average educational performance? Using data from the OECD PISA 2012 study on 58 countries, we develop a typology of educational regimes based on marketisation in terms of school autonomy and accountability. Following organisational theories, we expect that school autonomy is an ideal condition for…
Descriptors: Marketing, Scores, Reading Tests, Classification
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Benton, Tom – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2014
This article demonstrates how meta-analytic techniques, that have typically been used to synthesize findings across numerous studies, can also be applied to examine the reasons why relationships between background characteristics and outcomes may vary across different locations in a single multi-site survey. This application is particularly…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Meta Analysis, Academic Achievement, Institutional Autonomy
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Herbst, Mikolaj; Wojciuk, Anna – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
The goal of this work is to better understand the institutional changes in the educational systems of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. We demonstrate that the educational reforms implemented during the transformation introduced very different institutional arrangements in the four countries, despite the fact that their systems…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Zhao, Decheng; Wang, Luhuan – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2020
Improving the school governance structure and establishing a modern school system are the current research focuses in elementary and middle school management. Through a comparative analysis of the school governance structure of four provinces and cities in China (Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong, BSJG) and PISA2015 high-scored…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
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Klein, Esther Dominique – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: Increased school autonomy and accountability have been a common denominator of national reforms in otherwise heterogeneous governance systems in Europe and the USA. The paper argues that because schools serving disadvantaged communities (SSDCs) often have lower average performance, they are more often sanctioned or under closer scrutiny,…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Accountability, Disadvantaged Schools, Regression (Statistics)
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Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Arcia, Gustavo; Macdonald, Kevin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article contrasts policy intent and policy implementation in school autonomy and accountability. The analysis uses a conceptual framework based on the interaction between school autonomy, student assessment, and accountability as elements of a closed system. The article analyzes the implementation of school autonomy and accountability policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Policy
Parveva, Teodora; Horváth, Anna; Krémó, Anita; Sigalas, Emmanuel; Monseur, Christian – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2020
This report provides an overview of education structures and policies that influence equity in school education. It connects these system-level features to student performance in international student assessment surveys (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS). Looking at 42 European education systems, the report identifies which policies and structures are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Policy, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Practices
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Scheerens, Jaap; Luyten, Hans; van den Berg, Stéphanie M.; Glas, Cees A. W. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
As expectations of the economic impact of educational attainment are soaring (Hanushek & Woessmann, 2009) and conjectures about successful national educational reforms (Mourshed, Chijioke, & Barber, 2010) are welcomed by educational policy-makers in many countries, a careful assessment of the empirical evidence for these kinds of claims is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Educational Change, Comparative Education
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Murphy, Dan – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In its analysis of data it collected in 2006, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) used a variety of statistical methods to arrive at the 'key findings' that school autonomy, school competition and the public posting of student achievement data were…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Educational Policy
Lavy, Victor – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
There are large differences across countries in instructional time in schooling institutions. Can these differences explain some of the differences across countries in pupils' achievements in different subjects? While research in recent years provides convincing evidence about the effect of several inputs in the education production function,…
Descriptors: Productivity, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
Wobmann, Ludger; Ludemann, Elke; Schutz, Gabriela; West, Martin R. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
Accountability, autonomy, and choice play a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries. This report provides new evidence on whether students perform better in school systems that have such institutional measures in place. We implement an internationally comparative approach within a rigorous micro-econometric framework that accounts…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Academic Achievement, Exit Examinations, Achievement Tests
Carey, David – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
Improving education outcomes is important for Germany's long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly by international comparison and socio-economic and/or…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Equal Education, Early Childhood Education
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