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Bruce S. Rawlings; Helen Elizabeth Davis; Adote Anum; Oskar Burger; Lydia Chen; Juliet Carolina Castro Morales; Natalia Dutra; Ardain Dzabatou; Vivian Dzokoto; Alejandro Erut; Frankie T. K. Fong; Sabrina Ghelardi; Micah Goldwater; Gordon Ingram; Emily Messer; Jessica Kingsford; Sheina Lew-Levy; Kimberley Mendez; Morgan Newhouse; Mark Nielsen; Gairan Pamei; Sarah Pope-Caldwell; Karlos Ramos; Luis Emilio Echeverria Rojas; Renan A. C. dos Santos; Lara G. S. Silveira; Julia Watzek; Ciara Wirth; Cristine H. Legare – Developmental Science, 2024
Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high income countries has shown that school quality indicators have a significant, positive impact on numeracy and literacy--skills required to participate in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, School Effectiveness, Measurement
Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter; Walters, Christopher R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test scores and other outcomes. Widely-disseminated school ratings frameworks compare average student achievement across schools, but uncontrolled differences in means…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques, Institutional Evaluation, Academic Achievement
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Paula M. Hernandez-Diaz; Jorge-Andrés Polanco; Sergio Andrés Osuna-Ramírez; Erika Jaillier-Castrillón; Tatiana Molina-Velasquez; Manuela Escobar-Sierra – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to find the incidence of university sustainability, as sustainability practices, in university performance at private universities. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative research using structural equation modelling. Data collection and analysis followed sustainability and performance scales from previous research. The…
Descriptors: Incidence, Sustainability, Institutional Evaluation, Universities
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He Liying; Zhang Mengying – SAGE Open, 2024
The economic downturn has led to a variety of challenges for higher education institutions, including budget cuts and a heightened focus on efficiency and effectiveness. Performance-based budgeting is gaining traction as a means of more efficiently allocating resources, and Chinese public universities are not an exemption. The main purpose of this…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Finance, Budgeting, Performance Based Assessment
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Shamma Hamdoon Al Naqbi – SAGE Open, 2024
Technology brings tremendous changes in education because it is a system that automates all educational institutions and academic performance. Therefore, the study examines the effect of technology's system, information and service quality on faculty, operational and university performance. To explore the more contextual factors, this study…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Success, Technology Integration
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John Jerrim; Alex Jones – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
School inspections are a common feature of many education systems. These may be informed by quantitative background data about schools. It is recognised that there are pros and cons of using such quantitative information as part of the inspection process, though these have rarely been succinctly set out. This paper seeks to fill this gap by…
Descriptors: Inspection, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Educational Quality
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Bokhove, Christian; Sims, Sam – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2021
Many national education systems incorporate a central inspectorate tasked with visiting, evaluating and reporting on the performance of schools. The judgements produced by inspectors often play a part in the way that schools are held to account and constitute an important source of data in their own right. Inspection reports are therefore of great…
Descriptors: Reports, Data Analysis, Inspection, Institutional Evaluation
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George Leckie; Richard Parker; Harvey Goldstein; Kate Tilling – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
School value-added models are widely applied to study, monitor, and hold schools to account for school differences in student learning. The traditional model is a mixed-effects linear regression of student current achievement on student prior achievement, background characteristics, and a school random intercept effect. The latter is referred to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Value Added Models, Accountability, Institutional Characteristics
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Quesel, Carsten; Schweinberger, Kirsten; Möser, Guido – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2021
In social contexts, feedback by observers, participants, or recipients provides information on performance and products, thereby creating an opportunity to learn and improve. In education governance, many countries rely on school inspection by professional observers to convey feedback on organizational and pedagogical processes and outcomes. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), School Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
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Haderlein, Shira Alicia Korn – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
As parents are increasingly given flexibility to enroll their children in a school of their choice, understanding parents' preferences for school qualities is essential. Using a randomized survey experiment, this study adds to the existing literature by assessing parents' preferences in a controlled environment, where they can be isolated from…
Descriptors: School Choice, Institutional Evaluation, Decision Making, Parents
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Usta, Mehmet E. – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This study aims to compare the school inspection reports prepared by educational inspectors in Turkey and the United Kingdom. In Turkey, educational inspection is carried out by the Educational Inspectors of the Ministry of National Education. On the other hand, educational inspection in the UK is carried out by Ofsted education inspectors. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Inspection, Reports
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Paulina Contreras; Eduardo Santa Cruz; Jenny Assaél; Evelyn Palma; Natalia Albornoz; M. Beatriz Fernández; Jesús Redondo – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2024
Accountability policies through standardized testing are widespread in diverse educational systems. Based on an ethnographic research study, we sought to understand how a learning assessment policy, used for over three decades in primary and lower secondary education, is lived and interpreted in daily school life in Chile. This article analyzes…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Lu, Binwei – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This study compares the estimated grammar school effect in different regression models, and explains why previous evidence of the effectiveness of grammar school is mixed. Like most studies of school effectiveness evaluation, previous research on grammar school effect usually applies regression to control for confounding between-school factors and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Pablo Bezem – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In an era of test-based accountability, school inspection may offer a nuanced understanding of school performance and actionable information for improvement. Yet, little empirical evidence exists on its effectiveness in advancing performance, particularly in the United States. This dissertation examines the potential of school inspection as an…
Descriptors: Inspection, Educational Change, Accountability, School Effectiveness
Public Impact, 2021
To address the invisibility of schools serving highest-need students, ACE Charter Schools, a network of schools serving highest-need students in San Jose, California, partnered with Education Analytics, the CORE Data Collaborative, and Public Impact to change the definition of school quality, making visible the success that schools are achieving…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Student Needs, Institutional Evaluation
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