In Ecuador directors of Indigenous education administer a Kichwa proficiency exam as a requirement for employment. This article considers promises and challenges of the exam, such as how standardized language ideologies manifest in it, and what it says about how institutional knowledge is classed, racialized, and urbanized. Furthermore, though…

This paper explores perceptions of work intensification around the world. Underpinning this analysis is C. Wright Mills' (1959) argument that many personal troubles are public issues, and the notion that a significant dimension of the privatisation of public education, a concern of public education advocates worldwide, is the ways in which school…

This paper reports on the use of a framework developed from Bhaskar's critical realism and Archer's social realism to analyse teaching- and learning-related data produced as a result of the first cycle of institutional audits in the South African higher education system. The use of the framework allows us to see what this cycle of audits did…

Following the suspension of the Internal Revenue Service Direct Retrieval Tool (IRS DRT), the U.S. Department of Education provided postsecondary institutions with flexibility to accept alternative documentation when verifying students who completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). To understand the impact, the National…

Indonesia has recently witnessed a development in accounting information system with the introduction of computer-assisted mechanism. The Audit Board (BPK) while implementing the e-Audit system, aimed at reducing conflicts between auditors and state bureaucrats. This study is based on the phenomenon that occurred regarding the low quality of the…

This article discussed the development of a framework that visualizes the ontological reality of educational research participants that is incumbent on existing grounded and positioning theories. The proposed framework constructs the ontological reality of participants from qualitative data collected in semi-structured interviews. This framework…

Accountability pressures faced by teachers and leaders may lead well-intentioned educators to engage in strategic reporting and operational practices to increase test scores, graduation rates, and other indicators of student success. Such practices are referred to as "gaming behaviors." School district personnel attending a Georgia…

Within the context of intentional collaboration between doctoral-level program evaluation and counselor educators, this article addresses the need for advanced training in program evaluation for preservice doctoral-level counselor education (CE) students. To determine the current level of evaluation training provided to doctoral students attending…

School districts of the United States have to address their financial problems when economy is in difficulty. This study examines the financial practices of the school districts in metro-Atlanta area to understand how they operate their systems to meet with the challenges. Personal interviews were held with financial officers of six participating…

The Department of Education (Education) provided over $122 billion in grants, loans and work study funds to help students pay for college at about 6,000 schools in fiscal year 2017. Education is responsible for certifying that these schools are eligible for and capable of properly administering federal student aid funds. Schools are required to…

The objective of this audit was to determine the extent to which the U.S. Department of Education (Department) had processes for ensuring that Federal Student Aid's (FSA) fiscal year (FY) 2020-2024 strategic goals, objectives, and related performance indicators were effective. The audit covered FSA's strategic planning and related activities from…

This article is concerned with the level of reasoning needed to complete state examinations in mathematics and science at lower secondary level in Ireland. The authors used Lithner's (2008) Creative Reasoning Framework to classify tasks in three years of mathematics examination papers. They adapted this framework to do the same for science. It was…

The aim of this research is to provide a supervision model for provincial directorates of national education in accordance with contemporary audit approaches. The study is designed as a mixed research method. The participants of the study include 4082 people; 3576 teachers, 452 administrators (10 provincial/district national education directors…

To fulfill the demand of teaching and learning quality in Higher Education, different means of evaluating, assessing, and accrediting academic programs have evolved. The need arises on finding scientific tools to measure and assess quality at different stages of educational processes. In Higher Education, course portfolio is considered one of…

Though seldom discussed, the system of higher education has only recently opened its doors broadly to include diverse students. Indeed, the world of advanced learning often appears to be lurching from one embarrassing diversity-related incident to the next. Although institutions have made substantial strides to address the legacy of inequality in…