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Tan, Charlene – Educational Research, 2016
Background: This article critically discusses the key tensions and challenges arising from the educational policy borrowing in China, through its current education reform. Focussing on the new curriculum reform (NCR), the paper highlights the interactions and conflicts between foreign and local ideologies and practices. Sources of evidence: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Formative Evaluation, Student Centered Learning
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Kelley, Carolyn; Dikkers, Seann – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine the utility of framing formative feedback to improve school leadership with a focus on task-based evaluation of distributed leadership rather than on role-based evaluation of an individual leader. Research Methods/Approach: Using data from research on the development of the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Feedback (Response), Educational Improvement, Qualitative Research
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Kamler, Estelle; Dodge, Arnold; Walker, Joan M. T. – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The National Association of Secondary School Principals' Selecting and Developing the 21st Century Principal program is a formative assessment identifying skills linked to effective leadership, and it is based on a simulation designed to replicate a school principal's day. The Long Island School Leadership Center became a site for this program in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Leadership Training, Administrator Education, Pilot Projects
Olson, Mark E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this study, the researcher sought to determine whether Nebraska teachers and administrators agreed about what constitutes sound grading practice. The results of this study indicated that Nebraska teachers and administrators working in public schools in 7th-12th grade settings did not always agree about what constituted sound grading practice.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Grading, Public Schools