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Piattoeva, Nelli – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
The proliferation of standardized testing and administrative statistics in compulsory education is embedded in the rise to prominence of quantified accountability as a mechanism of education governance. Numbers work by stripping away the contexts of their production and the granular and ambiguous detail of the phenomena they claim to represent.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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Hardy, Ian; Lewis, Steven – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
The research reports how a particular school reform initiative--'Project 600'--constituted students in one school region Queensland, Australia. Drawing upon topological understandings of power and recent work on the visualisation of data in education, as well as the insights of key staff involved in the project, we reveal the complex and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, School Statistics, School Effectiveness, Visualization
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Magsumov, Timur A.; Artemova, Svetlana F.; Balanyuk, Leonid L. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The article deals with regional problems of primary education in the Vyatka province of the Russian Empire during the period of 1869-1878. The author pays attention to the development of one-year and two-year schools, reveals the characteristic features of education development and takes into account regional specifics. The Complete Collection of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education
Crosier, David; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga; Kocanova, Daniela; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This report aims to provide insight into the realities faced by higher education academic staff at a time of fast-moving change and increasing societal demand. Fluctuating student numbers, new funding and steering mechanisms are among the features of today's European higher education landscape, but not enough is known about how academic staff are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education