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Direct linkDedering, Kathrin; Sowada, Moritz G. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
In many of Germany's states the procedures for school inspections were amended following completion of a first evaluation cycle. This chapter examines the way changes carried out in the course of reform were configured with respect to content and process. It is based on the assumption that school inspections represent an institution whose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Evaluators, Educational Change
Dedering, Kathrin – Improving Schools, 2018
External consultancy in schools by those who do not belong to the teaching staff has always been an important factor in school development. Such consulting goes hand in hand with the idea that internal school development processes and their results can be influenced positively by external experts. This is even more so for "failing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Consultants, School Effectiveness, Low Achievement
Dedering, Kathrin; Sowada, Moritz G. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2017
School inspections have become an important instrument of quality assurance and quality development in many European countries. So far, the focus of empirical research on school inspections has been on the acceptance of the procedure among the school-internal actors, its influence for internal quality development and its effects on student…
Descriptors: Inspection, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Teamwork
Dedering, Kathrin – Improving Schools, 2015
The article focuses on school inspections as an instrument for school development and aims to clarify how schools cope with the results which are generated by it. It is based on the assumption that the specific situation of a school has an impact on how and in what way the results are received and dealt with in schools. In order to support this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Educational Development, Case Studies
Dedering, Kathrin; Muller, Sabine – Journal of Educational Change, 2011
Since the late 1990s, broad discussions on education and educational quality have given impetus to the implementation of many new measures aimed at the improvement of schools in Germany. In this context, school inspections have been introduced in all 16 German federal states during the last 6 years. In the meantime, scientific research into the…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Quality, Inspection, Educational Change
