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Direct linkDaniel Pettersson; Andreas Nordin – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2023
This volume centres the notion of "chance" in education as a key concept in contemporary education -- relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments -- and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "tame" this notion has had on present-day educational policy and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Use, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Peck, Charles A., Ed.; Cuthrell, Kristen, Ed.; Mace, Desiree H. Pointer, Ed.; Sloan, Tine, Ed.; Lys, Diana B., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This book offers concrete examples of how data can be used by faculty, staff, and program leaders to improve their collective work as teacher educators. Strong external accountability mandates often lead to tensions that undermine local morale and motivation. This volume focuses on the practical work of navigating these tensions so that valuable…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Program Improvement, Teacher Education
Peer reviewedMadsen, Miriam – Educational Governance Research, 2022
This book addresses governing by numbers and human capital policy in higher education by asking how higher education is quantified, how the quantitative information is used in educational governance, and how the information is perceived by students, teachers, managers, and policymakers, and affects decision-making. It also thematically discusses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism
Beach, J. M. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021
This book examines the idea of educational accountability in higher education, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make colleges better? What if educational accountability tools don't actually measure what they're supposed to? What if accountability data isn't valid, or worse, what if it's meaningless?…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Measurement Techniques
Mandinach, Ellen B., Ed.; Gummer, Edith S., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This volume brings together experts on various aspects of education to address many of the emerging issues and problems that affect how data are being used or misused in educational contexts. Readers will learn about the importance of using data effectively, responsibly, and ethically to fully understand how cognitive fallacies occur and how they…
Descriptors: Ethics, Data Use, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Download full textWagemaker, Hans, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
Although International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement-pioneered international large-scale assessment (ILSA) of education is now a well-established science, non-practitioners and many users often substantially misunderstand how large-scale assessments are conducted, what questions and challenges they are designed to…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Comparative Analysis
Huang, Ronghuai, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Price, Jon K., Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016
This book aims to capture the current innovation and emerging trends of digital technologies for learning and education in k-12 sector through a number of invited chapters in key research areas. Emerging Patterns of innovative instruction in different context, Learning design for digital natives, Digital learning resources for personalized…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Uses in Education, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Design
