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Direct linkPiattoeva, Nelli – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
The proliferation of standardized testing and administrative statistics in compulsory education is embedded in the rise to prominence of quantified accountability as a mechanism of education governance. Numbers work by stripping away the contexts of their production and the granular and ambiguous detail of the phenomena they claim to represent.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Kim, Jonghun – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This study examines the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), one of the most influential tools of global education reform discourses in the 21st century. The study focuses on the governing role of statistical data in the discourse constructed by the international comparative assessment, referring to the global educational…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Governance, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Holligan, Chris – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The continuation of neo-liberalism requires concerted effort. Political consent is constructed through practices of enforced cultural socialisation, the mobilisations of which obfuscate other realities. David Harvey describes this process as the construction of consent. The common sense encouraged by English academy schools is the result of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Commercialization
Download full textCuster, Samantha; King, Elizabeth M.; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan; Read, Lindsay; Sethi, Tanya – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
Governments, organizations, and companies are generating copious amounts of data and analysis to support education decision-making around the world. While continued investments in data creation and management are necessary, the ultimate value of information is not in its "production," but its "use." Herein lies one of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Parveva, Teodora; De Coster, Isabelle; Noorani, Sogol – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2009
This study produced by the Eurydice network gives a detailed picture of the context and organisation of national tests in 30 European countries and the use made of test results in informing education policy and practice and in guiding the school career of pupils. It presents the diverse choices made by European countries regarding the objectives,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, National Competency Tests, Testing, Students
Brown, Gavin T. L. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
Teachers' conceptions of assessment can be understood in terms of their agreement or disagreement with four purposes to which assessment may be put, specifically, (a) improvement of teaching and learning, (b) school accountability, (c) student accountability, or (d) treating assessment as irrelevant. A 50-item Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Questionnaires
Gasson, I. S.; Otto, E. P. – Vestes, 1979
In 1976 a questionnaire designed to gather information about methods to determine the allocation of staff within tertiary institutions in Australia was mailed to universities and colleges. The results are discussed including methods of allocation, student-load/staff ratios, staff contact hours, and sabbatical and study leave provisions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Faculty Workload
PDF pending restorationCorrectional Service of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1992
This 1991-92 report for correctional education in Canada provides analysis as well as statistical information for education programs provided during the fiscal year. A national overview contains data dealing with effectiveness based on participation, efficiency based on student/teacher ratio, and efficiency based on cost per full-time equivalent…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Colleges, Correctional Education
