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Antonina Levatino; Antoni Verger; Marjolein Camphuijsen; Andreu Termes; Lluís Parcerisa – Review of Research in Education, 2024
Performance-based accountability (PBA) has gained popularity worldwide due to its promise to strengthen the effectiveness and equity of educational systems. Nonetheless, its implementation does not always generate the expected reactions within schools. Through a configurative review, we systematically reviewed 133 empirical studies focusing on PBA…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Governance, Equal Education
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Cumming, Tamara; Wong, Sandie; Logan, Helen – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
A child's right to high quality education not only relies on a competent and skilled workforce, but one in which educators are well. Supporting a well workforce requires governments, organisations and educators to attend to work environment quality. This attention needs be based on sound, relevant evidence. In this paper we contribute evidence of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Well Being, Work Environment, Work Attitudes
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Krille, Claudia – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2020
This book presents a systematic literature review focusing on studies examining teachers' participation in professional development (PD) within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since 1990. It has identified 81 relevant studies and summarizes the results while answering the following research questions: What are teachers' self-reported reasons…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Barriers
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Trower, Cathy A. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
To understand what life on the tenure track is like, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) conducts an annual survey of tenure-track faculty. Through surveys and in focus groups and interviews, hundreds of tenure-track faculty members tell what affects their workplace satisfaction and, ultimately, their success. The…
Descriptors: Tenure, Focus Groups, Collegiality, College Faculty
Ilgen, Daniel R., Ed.; Pulakos, Elaine D., Ed. – 1999
This volume provides a discussion of the relationship between the changing nature of work and the understanding, measurement, and influence of human performance. Chapter 1, Employee Performance in Today's Organizations (Daniel R. Ilgen, Elaine D. Pulakos), introduces seven key changes in the nature of work--changes in technology, job design, type…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Employee Attitudes, Job Development