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Dulude, Eliane; Milley, Peter – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
While many studies on external accountability forms have illustrated the impact on the prevailing conceptions and values about the nature of school organizations, still little is known about the active role of school leaders as sense-makers who deal with conflicting accountability demands. We argue that while multiple external accountability forms…
Descriptors: Accountability, Leadership Role, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Policy
Connors-Tadros, L. – Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, 2013
In this "FastFacts," a state's Department of Education requests information from the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) on how the research defines skills in social-emotional development, approaches to learning, and executive function, to inform planned revisions to the early childhood indicators of progress for children…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Executive Function, Child Development
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Cooksey, Ray W.; Freebody, Peter – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
Applications of social judgment theory are discussed with respect to policy formation and decisionmaking in educational contexts. Interactive computer technology is described, which can execute social judgment analyses, provide cognitive feedback to the policymaker on selected policy parameters, compare the policies of several policymakers, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Moyer, Kerry L. – 1978
Four evaluation methods for determining educational policy are objectivism; subjectivism; emotive-imperative; and instrumentalism. For the objectivist, the rationale for undertaking an evaluation is based on empirical verification or non-verification of claims of existing policies or activities. Secondly, the objectivist is interested in…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Change Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes
Kearney, C. Philip; And Others – 1986
Four presentations from the 1985 Annual Michigan School Testing Conference on "Assessing Higher Order Skills" are offered in this paper, and the chairman of the First General Session provides an introductory section. The papers individually and collectively address the problem of defining higher order thinking skills. A second major…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Stasz, Cathleen; And Others – 1990
Instruction should emphasize generic skills as much as it does occupational or domain-specific skills. Generic skills enable people to: (1) cooperate and communicate for group problem solving; (2) identify and define problems in complex environments; (3) seek, acquire, and synthesize new information; and (4) adapt to changes in the problem-solving…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Classroom Environment