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Reforming Governance through Policy Instruments: How and to What Extent Standards, Tests and Accountability in Education Spread Worldwide
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Verger, Antoni; Fontdevila, Clara; Parcerisa, Lluís – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
In the last decades, most countries have adopted data-intensive policy instruments aimed at modernizing the governance of education systems, and strengthening their competitiveness. Instruments such as national large-scale assessments and test-based accountabilities have disseminated widely, to the point that they are being enacted in countries…
Descriptors: Accountability, Governance, Educational Policy, Data Analysis
Forms and Functions of Participatory Evaluation in International Development: A Review of the Empirical and Theoretical Literature
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Cullen, Anne; Coryn, Chris L. S. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Background: Since the late 1970s participatory approaches have been widely promoted to evaluate international development programs. However, there is no universal agreement of what is meant by participatory evaluation. For some evaluators, participatory evaluations involve the extensive participation of all stakeholder groups (from donor to…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Global Approach, International Programs, Program Evaluation
On the Impact of Government Policy on Programme Design in New Zealand Post-Compulsory Education
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Govers, Elly – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2010
The impact of national education policies on programme design practice in post-compulsory education tends to be marginalised in scholarly literature. This paper reviews and analyses the literature to explore how neo-liberalist discourses introduced in tertiary education and qualifications policies in New Zealand since 1989 continue to influence…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Vocational Education
Autonomy and Accountability in the Assessment of Learning: Tipping the Balance.
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Leach, Linda; Neutze, Guyon; Zepke, Nick – New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, 2001
Explores the economic and political contexts of assessment in New Zealand adult education. Discusses assessment in relation to power, objectivity, reliability, and validity, suggesting that accountability prevails over autonomy. Advocates a context-dependent learner-teacher partnership for assessment in adult education. (Contains 54 references.)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Economic Development, Educational Assessment
Toward a More Perfect Union: Basic Skills, Poor Families, and Our Economic Future. Occasional Paper 3.
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Berlin, Gordon; Sum, Andrew – 1988
In the 1980s and 1990s important demographic, economic, and social changes will affect the nation's schools, families, and workplaces. In anticipation of these developments, there is renewed interest in formal educational attainment and basic academic skills. A concerted national effort to address the current crisis in basic skills development…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Basic Skills, Dropouts
Ready to Assemble: A Model State Higher Education Accountability System
Carey, Kevin; Aldeman, Chad – Education Sector, 2008
At a time when college degrees are increasingly a prerequisite for middle-class wages, less than 40 percent of college students are able to demonstrate proficiency on literacy tests, barely half of college students graduate on time, and many do not graduate at all. At the same time. the price of college continues to increase quickly and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, College Students, Accountability