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Download full textDeLuca, Christopher; Braund, Heather; Valiquette, Adelina; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2017
Given the longstanding role of grades in education, and their increased use for high-stakes decisions including student mobility, admission, selection, and accountability, this paper presents a systematic review of grading policies across all 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories. In total, 23 policies were inductively analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grading, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Direct linkHägg, Ingemund; Wedlin, Linda – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
This article discusses the principles developed to assure the quality of international ranking practices for higher education, the so-called Berlin Principles, and the role given to them in the higher education community. While the principles are generally regarded as proper quality assurance principles, they are problematic both in their content…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Quality, Academic Standards, Educational Principles
Koyama, Jill P. – Educational Policy, 2012
This article ethnographically examines the paradoxical situation in which one high-achieving New York City public school is "constructed" as failing when No Child Left Behind (NCLB) assessments are miscalculated. Drawing upon actor-network theory (ANT)--a perspective that aims to explain how people, their ideas, and the material objects…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Sanctions
MPR Associates, Inc., 2009
This policy analysis was produced for the Wyoming Department of Administration and Information by MPR Associates, Inc. Its purpose was to examine federal and state policy related to career and technical education (CTE) to determine whether existing policy (in the form of statutes, rules, regulations, and guidance) could either promote or impede…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Articulation (Education), Vocational Education
Terenzini, Patrick – 1997
The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), with the support of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, was formed to develop ways to improve the utility of information for policy making at all levels and in all sectors of the postsecondary education enterprise. This report provides a model for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classification, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Lucas, Samuel R.; Beresford, Lauren – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Education names and classifies individuals. This result seems unavoidable. For example, some students will graduate, and some will not. Those who graduate will be "graduates"; those who do not graduate will be labeled otherwise. The only way to avoid such labeling is to fail to make distinctions of any kind. Yet education is rife with…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Inferences
