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Ehren, M. C. M.; Altrichter, H.; McNamara, G.; O'Hara, J. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2013
School inspection is used by most European education systems as a major instrument for controlling and promoting the quality of schools. Surprisingly, there is little research knowledge about how school inspections drive the improvement of schools and which types of approaches are most effective and cause the least unintended consequences. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Models, School Effectiveness
Harr, Jenifer J.; Parrish, Tom; Socias, Miguel; Gubbins, Paul – American Institutes for Research, 2007
Passed in 1999, the Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) established a results-based accountability system in California with specific performance targets for schools. The PSAA created a system of rewards and sanctions for meeting or not meeting those targets, and established assistance programs for low-performing schools. In 2001, the High…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Academic Achievement, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
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Taylor, Paul J.; Russ-Eft, Darlene F.; Chan, Daniel W. L. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2005
A meta-analysis of 117 studies evaluated the effects of behavior modeling training (BMT) on 6 training outcomes, across characteristics of training design. BMT effects were largest for learning outcomes, smaller for job behavior, and smaller still for results outcomes. Although BMT effects on declarative knowledge decayed over time, training…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Modeling (Psychology), Rewards, Job Skills