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Baxter, Jacqueline, Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy. Inspection policy can have various unintended consequences, some of which produce radical discrepancies between the policy…
Descriptors: Inspection, Evaluators, Program Implementation, Educational Policy
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Ehren, Melanie C. M., Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This book provides an overview and discussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles and responsibilities of Inspectorates of Education. Chapters include findings from…
Descriptors: Inspection, Institutional Evaluation, Schools, Validity
Hayden, Mary, Ed.; Thompson, Jeff, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2016
The foundation of the first international schools of the modern era well over a century ago, and their burgeoning growth over recent years, provides the context in this book for a series of personal perspectives written by some of those who have been involved centrally in their development. As the schools themselves have increased not only in…
Descriptors: International Schools, Curriculum Development, Comparative Education, Role of Education
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Hendricks, Michael, Ed.; And Others – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1990
Six papers discuss the increasing role of federal Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) in program evaluation. This issue presents an overview of such inspections, case studies from three federal agencies, and a review of questions and concerns about inspections by OIGs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Government Role
Wallach, Frances; DeVenzio, Huck; Caesar, Betsy; Bruya, L. D.; Wood, G.; Iverson, MaryLou; Hendy, Teresa B.; Mack, Mick G.; Thompson, Donna; Hudson, Susan – Parks and Recreation, 1998
This collection of seven articles examines the issue of playground safety, focusing on recent trends and mandates in playground safety; treated wood on playgrounds; safe playgrounds for infants and toddlers; achieving a safe ratio of adults to children; soft contained playgrounds; certified playground-safety inspectors; and playground injuries in…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adults, Child Health, Children
De Grauwe, Anton, Ed.; Naidoo, Jordan P., Ed. – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
The papers brought together in this volume are a selection from among those presented at the seminar organized in Kuala Lumpur, in July 2002 by the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions in Educational Planning (ANTRIEP). The network consists of institutions whose main mandate includes training and research in educational planning and…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, School Supervision, Community Involvement, Governance