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Thompson, Jeffery Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this comparative quantitative study was to test adherence to the accountability theory by comparing perceptions of South Carolina public school principals without procedural due process rights as administrators with public school principals in New Jersey that have procedural due process rights through tenure regarding the tools used…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Civil Rights, Public Schools
Johannes Lunde Hatfield; Tone Elin T. Soløst – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the Norwegian education system has shown a growing inclination towards performance-based management. This mixed-methods study aims to gain a deeper understanding of Norwegian primary school teachers' perceptions of the implementation and application of the National Quality Assessment System. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
Amy Loyd – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
On February 23, 2024, the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor (the Departments) published a final rule in the "Federal Register" (89 FR 13814) that defines the sixth performance indicator--effectiveness in serving employers--as "Retention with the Same Employer" in the second and fourth quarters following a participant's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Labor Turnover, Attachment Behavior, Group Unity
Javier Mula-Falcón; Katia Caballero – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Improving and assuring the quality of higher education has become a key element of policy agendas worldwide. To this end, a complete accountability system has been developed through various evaluation procedures. Specifically, this study analyzes the perceptions of university teaching staff on the impact of performance appraisal systems…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Evaluation
Moira Hulme; Abigail Comber; Eli Jones; Julian Grant; John Baumber – Curriculum Journal, 2024
Teacher evaluation and teachers' professional learning are too often confined to separate areas of research and professional practice. Rather than approach evaluation and enquiry as distinct or irreconcilable, this paper applies the ideas of Stenhouse to explore new possibilities for the reappropriation of mandated appraisal in ways that support…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Evaluation, Laboratory Schools, Foreign Countries
Kevin Proudfoot; Pete Boyd – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This article considers the motivations of teachers to pursue ongoing professional learning. During recent decades, the international policy context has been characterised by high-stakes accountability, but the implications of this agenda for teachers' motivations toward professional learning remains under-explored. In this mixed methods study,…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Faculty Development, Teacher Education, Accountability
Karin Lohwasser; Caroline Long; Soo-Yean Shim; Mark Windschitl – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
Preservice teacher performance assessments, such as the edTPA, are one of the accountability policies from states and local authorities designed to ensure the quality of beginning teachers and standardize teacher education. We studied experiences of 65 preservice teachers regarding the effect of the edTPA on their learning in field-placement…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Accountability, Equal Education
Denitza Anguelova Charkova – Discover Education, 2024
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have made substantial strides towards incorporating sustainability into their curricula. However, the methodology of education for sustainable development (ESD) needs to be more performance-oriented and grounded in practical experience in order to foster behavioral changes towards environmental protection. The…
Descriptors: Gamification, Sustainability, Information Technology, Sustainable Development
David Baidoo-Anu; Isaac Ennu Baidoo – Education Inquiry, 2024
Undergirded by "economic theory of the principal-agent problem", the study investigated secondary school teachers' perception of the influence of large-scale testing accountability on teaching and learning. Cross-sectional survey design was used. Simple random sampling was also employed to select 200 teachers for this study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
Vuokko Kohtamäki – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This study applies resource dependence theory to address the question of how the critical resource dependence relationship emerges in the context of a university's performance agreement. This study focuses on two Nordic universities that have adopted performance agreements while simultaneously using strong performance-based state funding. Resource…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Universities
Clapham, Andrew – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Educators working in museums, zoos, and botanic gardens are increasingly required to demonstrate impact. These requirements position 'performative evaluation' as the dominant model, one which also acts as a political, non-neutral, and managerial form of accountability. In contrast, 'practice evaluation' is intended to be democratic, dialogic, and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Museums, Recreational Facilities, Gardening
Phillip Dawson; Margaret Bearman; Mollie Dollinger; David Boud – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Cheating attracts a significant amount of attention in conversations about assessment, and with good reason: if students cheat, we cannot be sure they have met the learning outcomes of their course. In this conceptual article we question the attention given to cheating as a concept and argue that the broader concept of validity is a more important…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Inclusion, Test Validity
Amy Y. Li; Xiaodan Hu – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Between 1997 and 2019, 16 out of 41 performance-based funding (PBF) states discontinued their PBF policies for public colleges and universities. Adapting policy diffusion theory to PBF discontinuation, we investigate whether policy discontinuation in one state is related to discontinuations in other states, and differentiate between the two policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Government School Relationship
William Casey Boland – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Higher education accountability enjoys widespread support amongst state policymakers. This study explores the effect of one popular state-level public policy accountability measure- performance-based funding (PBF)- on Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI). Though extensive research exists on the role of PBF in U.S. postsecondary education, little of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Performance Based Assessment
Katherine Nagle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Gabriella Mottesi; Mari Quanbeck; Andrew R. Hinkle – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2025
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that each state have a State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) that evaluates the state's efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of IDEA. States must report annually to the Secretary of Education on their performance on the indicators included in the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Performance Based Assessment, Alternative Assessment, Educational Legislation