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Diego Santori; Jessica Holloway – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This paper aims to map and understand tactics and practices of resistance to standardised testing in England by focusing on the "More Than a Score" (MTAS) campaign. More specifically, this paper examines the role of professional organisations affiliated to the MTAS campaign in the production and mobilisation of expert knowledge as a tool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Associations, Resistance (Psychology), Standardized Tests
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Carolyn Clarke – in education, 2024
This ethnographic case study, situated in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, examined the effects of full-scale provincial testing on families, its influences on homework, and familial accountability for teaching and learning. Data were drawn from family interviews, as well as letters and documents regarding homework. Teachers sensed a significant…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Testing, Homework
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Bukh, Per Nikolaj; Christensen, Karina Skovvang; Poulsen, Morten Lund – SAGE Open, 2022
High-stakes testing is meant to create a positive washback effect on student learning. Performance funding can raise stakes. However, it is not often used, and its washback is uncertain. The purpose of this paper is to examine performance-funding programs based on students' exam results. We study principals' perceptions and interpretations of how…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Incentives, Accountability, Principals
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Barbana, Samir; Dumay, Xavier; Dupriez, Vincent – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article presents the discussion and the conclusion of an "EERJ" Special Issue on accountability policy forms in four European educational systems aimed at identifying how global schemes and instruments of accountability are integrated into national governance patterns. The comparative discussion indicates that accountability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Educational Policy, Public Policy
Jose Antonio Mola Avila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Accountability in education was implemented to improve poor learning outcomes by documenting and monitoring learning achievement results. In this process, external standardized achievement tests have played a central role, being the mechanism most frequently used to measure learning outcomes. However, several decades after its initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Accountability
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Diaz Rios, Claudia Milena – Comparative Education Review, 2020
National large-scale assessments (NLSA) have spread rapidly since the 1990s, but contrary to arguments of diffusion theories, not every country with large-scale assessments develop test-based accountability (TBA). The diverse-case comparison presented in this article demonstrates that the interaction between global pressures and domestic policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Accountability, Educational Policy
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Smith, William C.; Holloway, Jessica – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
Teachers, as frontline providers of education, are increasingly targets of accountability reforms. Such reforms often narrowly define 'teacher quality' around performative terms. Past research suggests holding teachers to account for student performance measures (i.e. test scores) damages their job satisfaction, including increasing stress and…
Descriptors: Testing, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability, Job Satisfaction
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Mausethagen, Sølvi; Prøitz, Tine S.; Skedsmo, Guri – Education Inquiry, 2021
In this article, we explore how values in education are negotiated and partly redefined by teachers, school leaders and local administrators with data use and accountability. Two dilemmas are prominent for the teachers: 1) Testing and data use are perceived as important to meet the needs of the students and to create transparency and initiating…
Descriptors: Values, Data Use, Accountability, Problems
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Barbana, Samir; Dumay, Xavier; Dupriez, Vincent – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article is an introduction to a European Educational Research Journal special issue on accountability policies and instruments in Europe. Two hypotheses grounded in the new institutionalist theory are presented to conceptualise and analyse the variety of national trajectories and forms of accountability in four European education systems…
Descriptors: Accountability, Governance, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Jin, Yan – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
This article examines the changes taken place over the decades after a test-based accountability system was in place and proposes an agenda for consequential research of the testing program. The article starts with a review of theories of test-based accountability (Supovitz, Journal of Educational Change 10:211-227, 2009) and a socially grounded,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Accountability, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Raudiene, Irena; Kaminskiene, Lina; Cheng, Liying – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
This article presents a historical and contemporary account of Lithuania's national public education assessment system and its transformation since the country's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. We explore how the external examination system has developed in relation to ongoing curriculum reforms over the last 30 years,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Macqueen, Susy; Knoch, Ute; Wigglesworth, Gillian; Nordlinger, Rachel; Singer, Ruth; McNamara, Tim; Brickle, Rhianna – Language Testing, 2019
All educational testing is intended to have consequences, which are assumed to be beneficial, but tests may also have unintended, negative consequences (Messick, 1989). The issue is particularly important in the case of large-scale standardized tests, such as Australia's "National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy" (NAPLAN), the…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Standardized Tests, National Curriculum, Testing Programs
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Pons, Xavier – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
In this paper, we analyse the trajectory of the French testing policy in education since 1973. Regarding its statistical tradition and its ability to produce its own evaluation tool, France may be regarded as an interesting case to interrogate the capacity of national educational systems to meet international standards of testing. Anchored in a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Governance, Standards
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Qadi, Ahmad – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Each teacher evaluates students' learning outcomes in their own way, depending on their own ideas and beliefs about teaching, learning, and assessing. It impacts on how pupils work. As a result, concentrating on instructors' perspectives in general appears to be vital, and exposing EFL teachers' evaluation concepts is crucial and requires…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, College Faculty
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Meadows, Michelle; Black, Beth – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
Teachers in England are under pressure to maximise their pupils' examination results, both to improve pupils' life chances and to ensure their school performs well on government accountability measures. This article reports the findings of an anonymous, online, voluntary survey of 548 teachers from secondary schools and colleges. The survey asked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Testing, Qualifications
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