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OECD Publishing, 2020
Kazakhstan has made tremendous progress in ensuring universal access to primary and lower-secondary education. Nevertheless, results international surveys reveal that almost two-thirds of students from Kazakhstan complete schooling without mastering the basic skills needed to be successful, and that student achievement is increasingly inequitable.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, School Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Eddy-Spicer, David; Bangpan, Mukdarut; Reid, Andy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Many efforts to implement and improve school inspections have been modelled on examples from high-income countries, and many studies on the effectiveness of such systems have also only been carried out in these countries. However, local contexts in low- and middle-income countries are very different from those in developed countries, and findings…
Descriptors: Inspection, Developing Nations, Governance, Context Effect
Moloney, Mary – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
Childcare regulations ensure children's rights to Early Childhood Care and Education settings that protect them from harm and promote their healthy development. To ensure that settings comply, power is vested with regulatory bodies that are tasked with enforcing regulations. Using a qualitative methodology, 43 interviews were undertaken with Early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Inspection, Quality Control
Elton, Jacqueline; Male, Trevor – School Leadership & Management, 2015
This research reports upon the impact of two concurrent processes of Special Measures and academisation applied to a primary school in the north of England as a result of an unsatisfactory inspection by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). The aim of the study is to describe how the process of being placed in special measures, coupled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Research Reports, Inspection
Bitan, Kristin; Haep, Anna; Steins, Gisela – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This paper assesses attitudes of principals from one German federal state toward school inspections. The discussion about school inspections and their acceptance can be imbedded into theoretical reflections on the design of and approach to feedback in social psychology. In our study, 50 school principals were interviewed about their attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, School Visitation, Principals
Altrichter, Herbert; Kemethofer, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
"New" school inspections are essential parts of "evidence-based governance" concepts and have been implemented by many European countries as a major strategy to assure and improve the effectiveness and quality of their education systems. However, national inspection systems vary in their composition and in their contextual…
Descriptors: Accountability, Online Surveys, Principals, Inspection
Ehren, Melanie; Perryman, Jane; Shackleton, Nichola – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
With decentralisation becoming increasingly widespread across Europe, evaluation and accountability are becoming key issues in ensuring quality provision for all (Altrichter & Maag Merki, 2010; Eurydice, 2004). In Europe, the dominant arrangement for educational accountability is school inspections. The purpose of this research is to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Involvement, Inspection, Expectation
Hunt, Melanie – Adults Learning, 2010
Adult learning is alive in many forms. Whether it is helping to improve literacy and numeracy or to prepare people for returning to work, it is clear that, at its best, adult learning brings considerable value to learners and to the wider community. Individuals, their families and the nation as a whole benefit from enhanced social and technical…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Inspection, Academic Standards
Courtney, Steven J. – Management in Education, 2013
This article focuses on head teachers' experiences of inspection under Ofsted's revised school inspection framework, their views of its principles and its implications for school leaders and leadership. The article draws on findings from a mixed-methods study to show that inspections are more focused on pupils' attainment and progress. Head…
Descriptors: Inspection, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Likert Scales
Chatterjee, B.; Dey, D.; Chakravorti, S. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
Partial discharge (PD) monitoring is an effective predictive maintenance tool for electrical power equipment. As a result, an understanding of the theory related to PD and the associated measurement techniques is now necessary knowledge for power engineers in their professional life. This paper presents a modular course on PD phenomenon in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Energy, Equipment, Maintenance
Blok, Henk; Karsten, Sjoerd – European Journal of Education, 2011
In many European countries and in North America, home education is a viable alternative for education at school. Parents who want to home school their child are legally allowed to do so, although some countries impose rather strict conditions. This article concentrates on the way authorities supervise or inspect the quality of home education. A…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Inspection, Foreign Countries, Parents as Teachers
Hankins, Enid – Adults Learning, 2010
Adult community learning in Wales covers a number of curriculum areas, delivered by a range of providers, including the voluntary sector. Classes reflect Welsh Assembly Government policy priorities, including improving levels of literacy and skills, decreasing economic inactivity and building community regeneration. A variety of community-based…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Inspection
Gross, Steven Jay – National Education Policy Center, 2012
This descriptive work urges U.S. policymakers to consider the English system of school inspections as a way of expanding our understanding of student achievement. Such an innovation is timely, according to the report, because the No Child Left Behind legislation is coming up for reauthorization. Using data largely from the English Office for…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Inspection, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Swanborn, Machteld S. L. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
School inspections are expected to have an impact on data use and improvement of schools. Schools are expected to generate data (e.g., self-evaluation reports and student achievement results) as part of the inspection process. This process, in turn, also generates data (e.g., inspection reports) for school improvement. The high-stakes context in…
Descriptors: Inspection, Accountability, Evaluation Utilization, Inferences
Biputh, Barath; McKenna, Sioux – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This paper tracks the development of the Integrated Quality Management System in South African schools after the dismantling of apartheid in 1994. We argue that the quality processes that are now in place emerged in response to the autocratic school inspection systems that preceded them but did not sufficiently address the impact of educators'…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Quality Control, Inspection, Accountability