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Foster, Kelly Robson; Robinson, Brian; Ali, Titilayo Tinubu – Bellwether, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 schools are under immense pressure to meet the diverse needs of students. But policies and practices have not evolved quickly enough to meet those needs -- and as a result, the system continues to fail far too many young people. In "Levers of Change: How State Policies Support District…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Policy, Educational Innovation, School Districts
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Wong, Hwei Ming; Kwek, Dennis; Tan, Kelvin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Assessment in education occurs for different purposes -- formative, summative, diagnostic, and each with different focus on educational process, education outcomes, and developmental reasons. Researchers in Singapore have documented the existence of tensions between the entrenched high-stakes examinations and attempts to introduce new modes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Testing, Educational Policy
Karantonakis, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The educator evaluation system has changed in the United States. Mandated by education reform, states are now required to look at their evaluation systems more closely to monitor the effectiveness of teachers and to see how students are learning in schools. The purpose of this Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study is to understand…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Phenomenology, Teacher Evaluation, Self Efficacy
Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
COL's mission is to help governments, institutions and organisations expand the scale, efficiency and quality of learning by using appropriate open, distance and technology-based approaches. In 2021-2027, COL will: i) build on its expertise in ODL, OER and TEL to play a more influential role in national policy development and implementation; ii)…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Strategic Planning, Educational Quality, Educational Change
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Linh Phung, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor; Vu Phi Ho Pham, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, initiated, and implemented in Vietnam and Cambodia. The region is responding to a large number of significant challenges, including…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Maghnouj, Soumaya; Salinas, Daniel; Kitchen, Hannah; Guthrie, Caitlyn; Bethell, George; Fordham, Elizabeth – OECD Publishing, 2020
Serbia's education system performs well compared to other countries in the Western Balkans. There have been improvements in access to education and Serbia has undertaken major institutional reforms in recent years, such as the introduction of achievement standards at the end of compulsory education, teacher standards and a school evaluation…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Research For Action, 2011
Two decades of research have documented what now is common knowledge: no in-school factor matters more to students' educational experiences and outcomes than the effectiveness of their teacher. As a result, the national airspace is increasingly crowded with proposed reforms and initiatives designed to boost teacher performance, including new…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy, State Policy, Policy Formation
Haque, Bali – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2014
This is a powerful critique of two decades of educational reform in New Zealand, from an educator who was deeply involved. It is also a provocative call for action. Bali Haque has been both a secondary school principal required to implement reform and a senior public servant in the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) tasked with pushing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Secondary Schools
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Ioannidou, Alexandra – European Educational Research Journal, 2007
In recent years, the ongoing development towards a knowledge-based society--associated with globalization, an aging population, new technologies and organizational changes--has led to a more intensive analysis of education and learning throughout life with regard to quantitative, qualitative and financial aspects. In this framework, education…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Lifelong Learning, Global Approach, Educational Change
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Finnan, Christine Robinson – Urban Review, 1980
Using an evaluation of the Teacher Corps as a case study, discusses the value of ethnographic studies in policy research and the types of policy statements that emerge from such studies. (ST)
Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Ethnography
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Stake, Robert – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1998
Reviews what is known about what assessment has accomplished in U.S. education, concluding that it has not brought about real reform. Calls for educational policy based more on deliberated interpretations of assessment, experience, and ideology, and notes the important role evaluation of assessment must play in policy deliberations. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Baker, Eva L. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1977
It is difficult to base evaluations on concepts irrelevant to state policy making. Evaluation of a multiproject program requires both time and differentiation of method. Data from the California Early Childhood Program illustrate process variables for program component analysis, and research questions for intraprogram comparison. (CP)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Armour-Garb, Allison, Ed. – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, 2007
This volume contains an edited transcript of the Rockefeller Institute's October 29, 2007 symposium (Chicago, IL) entitled "Intergovernmental Approaches to Strengthen K-12 Accountability Systems" as well as a framework paper circulated in preparation for the symposium. The transcript begins with a list of the forty state and federal education…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Testing, Educational Change
Geisert, Paul – 1972
This report presents a model that describes the logical steps that should be implemented to maximize self-renewal in a rapidly changing social environment. The model, which uses a systematic approach to the problems of change and accountability, is designed to assist educators in the continual definition, selection, and implementation of viable…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Meaghan, Diane E.; Casas, Francois R. – Interchange, 1995
Canadian parents and educators are targeted with a campaign designed to convince them that lack of adequate testing represents a major barrier to educational reform. The paper examines the dangers and adverse effects of standardized testing, reviewing recent attempts to alert educators and policymakers to the deficiencies of standardized testing.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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