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Owen, Liz; Craig, Lesley; Barrett, Whitney; Hannay, Sam – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2022
Excellence, equity and efficiency are key drivers for improvement in Scotland's education sector, including educational psychology. This paper discusses and evaluates the decisions taken by one Scottish Educational Psychology Service towards achieving the key outcomes of excellence, equity and efficiency through a redesign of their service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Psychology, Psychological Services, Delivery Systems
Moore, Colleen – Education Insights Center, 2020
The Education Insights Center produced a series of reports culminating in recommendations for the structure and governance of a preschool through higher education and into the workforce (known as a P20W data system). This brief follows up on that series, with a focus on data quality; the brief was informed by the author's experience using…
Descriptors: Governance, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Page, Damien – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
Just as surveillance in general has become more sophisticated, penetrative and ubiquitous, so has the surveillance of teachers. Enacted through an assemblage of strategies such as learning walks, parental networks, student voice and management information systems, the surveillance of teachers has proliferated as a means of managing the risks of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Simulation, Accountability, Teacher Effectiveness
Akers, Beth – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
College has become a risky proposition for students as well as taxpayers. Fewer than six in 10 students who start a degree will ever finish, which means that they won't see a return on the money they've spent to attend--and if they took out a loan from the federal government, they might be left with unaffordable debt. In the latter case, the…
Descriptors: College Role, Risk, Accountability, Federal Government
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Ghaicha, Abdallah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
At this age of accountability, it is acknowledged that assessment is a powerful lever that can either boost or undermine students' learning. Hitherto, much of the regular institutional and instructional practices show that assessments remain inhibitory or void rather than constructive as these lack the assessment formative aspect. This denotes…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English (Second Language), English Teachers, Formative Evaluation
Joy, Sunil; Arellano, Amber – Education Trust-Midwest, 2016
In Michigan, schools and educators are held accountable for performance more than ever before. Charter school authorizers--the entities responsible for opening and overseeing new and existing charter schools--face almost no accountability for their performance. In Michigan's current charter landscape, the enormous responsibility of authorizing has…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, Quality Control
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Kauko, Jaakko; Centeno, Vera Gorodski; Candido, Helena; Shiroma, Eneida; Klutas, Anni – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
The focus in this article is on Brazilian education policy, specifically quality assurance and evaluation. The starting point is that quality, measured by means of large-scale assessments, is one of the key discursive justifications for educational change. The article addresses the questions of how quality evaluation became a significant feature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Elementary Education, Educational Policy
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2012
Many teachers view "teacher evaluation" or "teacher appraisal" as a means of effecting bureaucratic organisational change in schools. In essence, this change is attributed to "political reconstruction" and the "disciplining" of teachers. As a result, some common phrases associated with this ideological…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Quality Control, Recognition (Psychology), Teachers
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Yokoyama, Keiko – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2011
The purpose of this study is to identify how the meaning of autonomy and accountability changes between domestic and overseas campuses of the universities in New York State. The article confines to and examines the shift of the quality assurance mechanism between two contexts. The article argues that home campuses of the University of the State of…
Descriptors: Campuses, Quality Control, Accreditation (Institutions), Accountability
Lee, Lung-Sheng Steven – Online Submission, 2013
Globalization in the 21st century has brought innumerable challenges and opportunities to universities and countries. Universities are primarily concerned with how to ensure the quality of their education and how to boost their local and global competitiveness. The pressure from both international competition and public accountability on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
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Shah, Mahsood; Nair, Sid; Wilson, Mark – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
Higher education policies related to quality assurance are implemented in many countries. The purposes of such policies are to ensure the provision for high-quality education, university accountability and transparency in the use of public funding and meeting the needs of the diverse stakeholders. The current Australian Higher Education Quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Educational Change
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Jung, Insung; Wong, Tat Meng; Li, Chen; Baigaltugs, Sanjaa; Belawati, Tian – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
With the phenomenal expansion of distance education in Asia during the past three decades, there has been growing public demand for quality and accountability in distance education. This study investigates the national quality assurance systems for distance education at the higher education level in Asia with the aim of contributing to a better…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Prior Learning, Quality Control
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Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S.; Zimitat, Craig; Malau-Aduli, Aduli E. O. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2011
Medical education is not exempt from the increasing societal expectations of accountability and this is evidenced by an increasing number of litigation cases by students who are dissatisfied with their assessment. The time and monetary costs of student appeals makes it imperative that medical schools adopt robust quality assured assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Quality Control
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2011
In fiscal year 2009, the Department of Defense's (DOD) Military Tuition Assistance (TA) Program provided $517 million in tuition assistance to approximately 377,000 service members. US Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to report on (1) DOD's oversight of schools receiving TA funds, and (2) the extent to which DOD coordinates with…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Tuition, Federal Aid, Inspection
US Department of Education, 2010
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) is a national accrediting agency of graduate education programs in audiology or speech-language pathology. The CAA currently accredits or or preaccredits 319 programs (247 in speech-language pathology and 72 in…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Advisory Committees, Speech Language Pathology, Audiology
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