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Setting Expectations for Good Education: How Dutch School Inspections Drive Improvement
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Ehren, Melanie; Perryman, Jane; Shackleton, Nichola – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
With decentralisation becoming increasingly widespread across Europe, evaluation and accountability are becoming key issues in ensuring quality provision for all (Altrichter & Maag Merki, 2010; Eurydice, 2004). In Europe, the dominant arrangement for educational accountability is school inspections. The purpose of this research is to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Involvement, Inspection, Expectation
The Role of Professional Learning Communities in Developing and Using Common Formative Assessments
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Betts, Diane Gmitro – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of professional learning communities (PLC) is for teachers to come together to discuss and examine student learning and ultimately to make instructional changes that can lead to improved student learning. The formative use of assessments that are commonly agreed upon by this community of teachers is believed to enhance their improvement…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Psychometrics, Communities of Practice, Role Perception
In Pursuit of Social Betterment: A Proposal to Evaluate the Da Vinci Learning Model
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Henry, Gary T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2005
The author presents a proposal that is roughly based on a contingency-based theory of evaluation developed in his book, "Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs" (Mark, Henry, and Julnes, 2000). He and his coauthors stated in this book that social betterment was the ultimate goal of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Models, Partnerships in Education, Educational Change