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David Baidoo-Anu; Isaac Ennu Baidoo – Education Inquiry, 2024
Undergirded by "economic theory of the principal-agent problem", the study investigated secondary school teachers' perception of the influence of large-scale testing accountability on teaching and learning. Cross-sectional survey design was used. Simple random sampling was also employed to select 200 teachers for this study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability
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McDowall, Ailie; Mills, Carmen; Cawte, Katie; Miller, Jodie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
A shifting policy landscape in Australian teacher education has led to the introduction of teaching performance assessment tasks in initial teacher education degrees, foregrounding data literacy practices. The aim of this research was to explore pre-service teachers' uses of data to inform and evaluate their teaching practice as demonstrated in…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Data Interpretation, Multiple Literacies
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Ozga, Jenny – Education Inquiry, 2011
New public management and the neo-liberal principles that sustain it have driven performance agendas in government across Europe and beyond. This has produced a loss of the traditional role of education in creating a coherent and persuasive collective myth of belonging, identity or purpose. This chapter discusses current developments in the policy…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Role of Education