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Alach, Zhivan – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
This study explores difficulties in the conceptual positioning of the higher education performance indicator of qualification completion within a standard logic model taken from the public sector performance literature, involving inputs, processes, impacts and outcomes. Organisations are held to be more accountable for the delivery of outputs than…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Higher Education, Educational Policy
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Kruger, Mirko; Won, Mihye; Treagust, David F. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
In the age of educational accountability, national and statewide measures are assumed to secure and improve the educational quality. However, educators often wonder how much a new accountability measure may improve the actual teaching and learning practices when the agents of change (teachers) are not active participants of such educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Accountability, Exit Examinations
Washington State Board of Education, 2011
One of the State Board of Education's (SBE) strategic plan goals is to advocate for an effective, accountable governance structure for public education in Washington. The development of this goal comes from Board members' experiences over the last five years to understand and address the complexity of Washington's education system and their role…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational History
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Tienken, Christopher H. – Educational Forum, 2011
Test score validity takes center stage in the debate over the use of high school exit exams. Scant literature addresses the amount of conditional standard error of measurement (CSEM) present in individual student results on high school exit exams. The purpose of this study is to fill a void in the literature and add a national review of the CSEM,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Exit Examinations, State Departments of Education, Error of Measurement
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Ameziane, Ahmed; Lietz, Jeremy J. – Education, 1983
The kingdom of Morocco has developed an educational system that incorporates traditional customs and values of the people with the system of accountability practiced there under French colonial rule. A highly structured curriculum for each educational level is combined with a minimum competency requirement at each grade level. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Entrance Examinations, Competency Based Education, Developing Nations
Northwest Territories Dept. of Education, Yellowknife. – 1990
The Northwest Territories (NWT) Senior Practice Program (SPP) described in this manual is designed to develop self-direction, self-esteem, and skills and knowledge in specific practical areas. The secondary school SPP prepares at-risk students, at least 15 years old, for work. The program has both practical and academic components. This…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accountability, Admission Criteria, Cooperative Education