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Ugarte, Carolina; Urpí, Carmen; Costa-París, Ana – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
This article aims to point out how school autonomy helps principals reach higher quality by increasing flexibility in three areas: pedagogy, organization and management. Autonomy leads to an improvement in student performance and, consequently, in educational quality. A theoretical framework based on literature review and PISA results is followed…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, School Administration, Foreign Countries, Principals
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Çankaya, Ibrahim; Saglam, Aycan Çiçek; Tan, Çetin – Excellence in Education Journal, 2020
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the opinions of teacher candidates, who were born after 2000 and called Generation Z, about the concept of school autonomy. This quantitative research was conducted according to the descriptive survey model. The data obtained is based on the responses given by teacher candidates to the "School…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Gill, C. M. Hugues D.; Berezina, Elizaveta – European Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Purpose: The three neighbouring nations of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore participated in the 2009, 2012 and 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) cycles. Despite many similarities between the three nations, Singapore has consistently been a top PISA performer, with Malaysia and Indonesia in the bottom third of the…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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Salas-Velasco, Manuel – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency performance of public sector-funded schools in Spain. Design/methodology/approach: Using school-level data from Program for International Student Assessment 2012, cross-sectional models were estimated using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Technical efficiencies of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Efficiency, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
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Xia, Jiangang; Gao, Xingyuan; Shen, Jianping – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
This study examined and compared school autonomy in China and the United States. Based on the international PISA 2012 school data, the authors examined three aspects of school autonomy. We found that in comparison with the United States, (1) principals from China were less likely to have responsibility over eleven school decisions (hiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Institutional Autonomy
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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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Maslowski, Ralf; Scheerens, Jaap; Luyten, Hans – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
Over the past 2 decades, a large number of countries have been engaged in the decentralization of decision-making to schools. Although the motives and incentives for school autonomy are often diverse, it is commonly believed that decentralization will enhance the quality of schooling. Based on a secondary analysis of data from OECD's Programme for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Personnel Management, Academic Achievement