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Direct linkBaxter, Jacqueline – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
As Chap. 1 explained, the factors at play in the implementation of public policy are not limited to the complex, confounding and often competing values that jostle with one another when education policy is formulated, but may also variously come to light depending upon the lens through which the process is viewed. In this the final chapter I move…
Descriptors: Inspection, Evaluators, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Baxter, Jacqueline – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
This chapter introduces the idea of school inspectors as implementers of public policy, framing their role within the context of policy implementation and the governance of education. Using a framework for policy implementation developed by Weible and Sabatier (Handbook of public policy analysis. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 123-136, 2006), it…
Descriptors: Inspection, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Public Policy
Dedering, Kathrin; Sowada, Moritz G. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
In many of Germany's states the procedures for school inspections were amended following completion of a first evaluation cycle. This chapter examines the way changes carried out in the course of reform were configured with respect to content and process. It is based on the assumption that school inspections represent an institution whose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Evaluators, Educational Change
Moreton, Henry J.; Boylan, Mark; Simkins, Tim – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
The relationship between headteachers and inspection is complex, particularly when in service head teachers are employed as inspectors. This study takes the English case of inspection to examine how headteachers interpret their work and agency as inspectors. Employing ideas on 'boundary crossing' it is informed by, and contributes to, the…
Descriptors: Principals, Evaluators, Inspection, Foreign Countries
Altrichter, Herbert – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
During recent decades many school systems in Europe have undergone extensive changes in their governance structures. The guiding image of this 'modernisation' was an idea of evidence-based governance of schooling: 'New school inspections' have been a recurrent feature of such modernised governance systems in most countries. In this chapter the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, School Administration, Governance
Baxter, Jacqueline, Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy. Inspection policy can have various unintended consequences, some of which produce radical discrepancies between the policy…
Descriptors: Inspection, Evaluators, Program Implementation, Educational Policy
