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Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2021
The Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 defines major management challenges as programs or management functions that are vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, and where a failure to perform well could seriously affect the ability of the U.S. Department of Education (Department) to achieve its mission or…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Inspection, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hussain, Iftikhar – Centre for the Economics of Education, 2012
Performance measurement in the public sector is largely based on objective metrics, which may be subject to gaming behaviour. This paper investigates a novel subjective performance evaluation system where independent inspectors visit schools at very short notice, publicly disclose their findings and sanction schools rated fail. First, I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Inspection, Institutional Evaluation
MacLeod, Shona; Jeffes, Jennifer; White, Richard; Bramley, George – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2010
How well do youth offending teams (YOT) work? In which areas of their work is their performance excellent and where is improvement needed? This research examined annual performance assessments of services for children and young people undertaken by Ofsted in 57 local authorities from January 2006 to April 2009, together with relevant data relating…
Descriptors: Inspection, Leadership Effectiveness, Program Administration, Court Litigation
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Belfield, Clive; Thomas, Hywel – Oxford Review of Education, 2000
Examines the relationship between resources and performance using data on Further Education (FE) colleges in England. Focuses on inspection scores and resource levels to determine if colleges that receive greater expenditures perform better on inspection scores. Finds that a link can be substantiated between performance and size. Includes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Zarghami, Ali; Benbow, Don – 1987
Taguchi methods are methods of product quality improvement that analyze major contributions and how they can be controlled to reduce variability of poor performance. In this approach, knowledge is used to shorten testing. Taguchi methods are concerned with process improvement rather than with process measurement. This manual is designed to be used…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Inspection, Manufacturing, Mathematical Applications
Wilson, Thomas A. – 1996
This book provokes a re-examination of how expert knowledge, not practitioner know-how, has come to dominate how Americans judge and improve schools. It depicts the English tradition of school inspection to provoke the invention of better ways for judging and knowing schools in America. Data were gathered by observation of 39 local and national…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1995
The performance of national education systems is a growing concern in many Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. This book focuses on the assessment of school performance in seven countries: England, France, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The research questions include: Why are schools…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Education, Decentralization, Educational Assessment