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Direct linkMeyer, Heinz-Dieter – Comparative Education, 2017
Quantitative measures of student performance are increasingly used as proxies of educational quality and teacher ability. Such assessments assume that the quality of educational practices can be unambiguously quantitatively measured and that such measures are sufficiently precise and robust to be aggregated into policy-relevant rankings like…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Problems, Accuracy, Scholarship
McEwan, Patrick J. – Comparative Education, 2008
This paper describes three multigrade school reforms in Latin America: (1) Colombia's "Escuela Nueva", (2) Guatemala's "Nueva Escuela Unitaria", and (3) Chile's MECE-Rural. Each reform endowed primary teachers and students with special training and instructional materials, and encouraged new kinds of instruction in rural…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedJohnes, Geraint – Comparative Education, 1994
Describes government funding of university-based research in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Examines problems in research evaluation and related public policy, particularly the link between evaluation and funding, issues of efficiency and incentive compatibility, and impact of performance evaluation on researcher behavior. Appendix…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Evaluation Problems, Federal Aid, Financial Support
