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Killion, Joellen – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
In each issue of "JSD," Joellen Killion explores a recent research study to help practitioners understand the impact of particular professional learning practices on student outcomes. In this issue, she describes Z. Kisa and R. Correnti's 2015 longitudinal study of fidelity of implementation of principles of reform-aligned professional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Fidelity, Educational Practices, Faculty Development
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Yoon, Sun Young – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This study investigates: (1) how principals' data-driven practices may vary by principals' and school backgrounds and how that changes over time; (2) how principals' data-driven practices influence teacher buy-in; and (3) how principals' data-driven practices and teachers' buy-in influence student outcomes. This study uses data from the Study of…
Descriptors: Principals, Evidence Based Practice, Data, Educational Change
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Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
The aims of the study were to examine changes in school segregation across different types of municipalities between 1998 and 2011 in Sweden, and to explore the extent to which these changes are the consequences of school choice. Multilevel models were applied to register data using a counterfactual approach. The results showed that school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, School Segregation, Municipalities
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Ehren, Melanie C.; Shackleton, Nichola – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016
In most countries, publicly funded schools are held accountable to one inspectorate and are judged against agreed national standards. Many inspectorates of education have recently moved towards more proportional risk-based inspection models, targeting high-risk schools for visits, while schools with satisfactory student attainment levels are…
Descriptors: Risk, Inspection, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Paterson, Lindsay; Gow, Alan J.; Deary, Ian J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
The long-term effects of secondary-school reforms in the first half of the 20th century are investigated through the long-term follow up of a sample of people born in Scotland in 1936 who were first surveyed in 1947. Members of the sample who were living in the Lothian region of Scotland were re-interviewed in 2004-2007, providing information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Lee, Hyemi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Since the 1990s, many states have started implementing standards-based reforms and developed their own accountability systems. Each state established academic content and performance standards, implemented test for all the students in grades 3 through 8 annually, and set up annual measurable objectives in reading and mathematics for districts,…
Descriptors: Principals, Accountability, Academic Achievement, Teacher Attitudes
Baum, Donald Rey – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Public-private partnerships are being increasingly supported and advocated for, ideologically and financially, as an approach to educational reform in many countries across the world. Proponents suggest that non-state involvement in the education sector has the potential to bolster international Education for All efforts, improve school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Educational Change