School Peer Review For Educational Improvement And Accountability

Author : David Godfrey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030481308

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School Peer Review for Educational Improvement and Accountability by David Godfrey Pdf

This book explores how peer reviews are used in school improvement, accountability and education system reform. Importantly, these issues are studied through numerous international cases and new empirical evidence. This volume also identifies and describes barriers and facilitators to the development, use, sustainability and expansion of school peer review. School peer reviews are a form of internal evaluation driven by schools themselves rather than externally imposed, such as with school inspections. Schools collaborate with other schools in networks, collect data through self-evaluation and in school review visits. They provide feedback, challenge and support to each other. Despite the increased use of school peer review in system reform and school improvement, very little research has been conducted on this model and there is a dearth of literature that looks at the phenomenon internationally. This book fills this gap and will be an invaluable source for academics in school leadership and educational evaluation and accountability, as well as those working at the level of executive leadership in school networks, NGOs and in government policy-making.

Author : Toby Greany,Peter Earley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350173538

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School Leadership and Education System Reform by Toby Greany,Peter Earley Pdf

How can school leaders shape organisations that offer consistently high quality, rounded and equitable education in the context of rapid change? How can wider education systems support and encourage all schools to succeed in this way? What are the challenges and opportunities involved? What can we learn from existing evidence and research? School Leadership and Education System Reform considers the ways in which school leadership and its practice has changed and developed in response to a rapidly changing educational context over the last decade. This new edition is substantially revised and updated, with ten completely new chapters. It includes contributions from a range of leading thinkers and researchers in the field of educational leadership and management. Theoretically and conceptually informed, the contributors draw on recent empirical research studies into leadership, learning and system reform in England and more widely to explore the key issues for contemporary school leadership and management in high-autonomy-high-accountability systems. New chapters look at: · System governance and lateral accountability in 'self-improving' school systems · Leading curriculum development and accelerating progress for disadvantaged children in schools · Effective deployment of teaching assistants/leadership for inclusion · School collaboration, partnerships and 'system leadership' · Securing improvement at scale, across multiple schools and across localities · New conceptions of leadership, including ethical and invitational leadership School Leadership and Education System Reform provides accessible but research and theory-informed chapters, each of which includes summaries and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Paul Wilfred Armstrong,Chris Brown
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800436701

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School-to-School Collaboration by Paul Wilfred Armstrong,Chris Brown Pdf

Taking a global perspective, the chapters within this book follow a common framework to explore how macro-level factors help to create the conditions in which school-to-school collaboration is likely to succeed or fail ‘on the ground’.

Author : Toby Greany,Annelies Kamp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350178885

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Leading Educational Networks by Toby Greany,Annelies Kamp Pdf

This book offers a global perspective on educational networks, reviewing theory and practice before setting out four lenses: educational effectiveness and improvement; governance theory; complexity theory; and Actor-Network Theory. Using these lenses, Greany and Kamp explore the limits and possibilities for collaboration by analysing case studies of networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England as well as country-level overviews of networks in Chile and Singapore. The four lenses allow the authors to explore the implications of networks from different perspectives: moving from the level of the individual school, to the local and national systems that schools operate within, to the wider environmental factors that shape, and are shaped by, network activity in education. The authors examine why and how networks have become a feature of education systems worldwide and the implications for policy, practice and research. They consider how networks form, develop, reform, and achieve impact, but also why they can be challenging and often fail to achieve their ambitions. The book concludes by drawing out the implications for leaders and the further development of leadership at different levels of education systems, and by identifying further avenues for research.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264480933

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Equity and Inclusion in Education Finding Strength through Diversity by OECD Pdf

Governments and education policy makers are increasingly concerned with equity and inclusion in education due to several major global trends such as demographic shifts, migration and refugee crises, rising inequalities, and climate change. These developments have contributed to increasing diversity within national populations and flagged some concerns around the ability of education systems to be equitable and inclusive of all students.

Author : Mel Ainscow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040016503

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Developing Inclusive Schools by Mel Ainscow Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ways of developing equitable education systems addresses the greatest challenge facing education systems around the world, that of developing schools that are effective in educating all children. Using evidence from research carried over the last 25 years in many countries, Mel Ainscow explains pathways to be followed in order to turn the global aspiration for inclusion and equity into policy and practices in the field. Making extensive use of examples from different parts of the world, Developing Inclusive Schools provides: Practical guidance for teachers regarding ways of making their lessons inclusive Accounts of how this thinking has been implemented in schools Advice for school leaders on how to create an inclusive culture within their organisations Examples of how inclusion and equity have influenced national policies in different contexts Explanations of the implications for policy makers, researchers and teacher educators Developing Inclusive Schools will be of huge significance to researchers, educators and practitioners in the fields of education policy and politics, inclusion and special education around the world.

Author : Jennifer Goldstein
Publisher : Teacher College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807750492

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Peer Review and Teacher Leadership by Jennifer Goldstein Pdf

This book examines a policy that is one of the most powerful levers to improve teaching quality and advance teaching as a profession. Jennifer Goldstein presents the story of Rosemont, an urban district in California that created "professional accountability" with peer assistance and review (PAR), an alternative approach to teacher evaluation in which expert teachers evaluate their teacher peers. It challenges a number of long-held beliefs and practices in education, adversarial labour relations, "being nice", hierarchy, isolation, and negligence, to achieve very different teacher evaluation outcomes.

Author : Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg,Tobias Feldhoff,Katharina Maag Merki,Falk Radisch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Assessment
ISBN : 9783030693459

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Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research by Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg,Tobias Feldhoff,Katharina Maag Merki,Falk Radisch Pdf

This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability analysis places high demands on a study's design and method. The potential of combining the depth of case studies with the breath of quantitative measures and analyses in a mixed-methods design seems very promising. Consequently, the focus of the book lies on innovative methodological approaches. The book chapters address design, measurement, and analysis developments as well as theoretical and conceptual developments. The relevance of the research presented in the chapters for educational accountability is discussed in the book's discussion chapter. More specifically, authors present one specific innovative methodological approach and clarify that approach with a concrete example in the context of school improvement, based on empirical data when possible. In this way, this book helps researchers designing complex useful studies.

Author : Myron Lieberman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412835607

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Teachers Evaluating Teachers by Myron Lieberman Pdf

As a writer on education reform, Myron Lieberman has criticized America's two largest teacher organizations - the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - for standing in the way of needed improvement in our system of public education. One of the most telling criticisms of these organizations is that they have been too quick to defend teachers charged with incompetence. In response to this charge from Lieberman and others, the NEA and the AFT have championed a "new unionism," under which the teacher unions themselves, and their local affiliates, assume responsibility for ensuring teacher competence by instituting peer review systems.

Author : Liz Slater,CfBT Education Trust
Publisher : Exhibit A
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 1909437182

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Building High-Performing and Improving Education Systems by Liz Slater,CfBT Education Trust Pdf

Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807749397

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Grading Education by Richard Rothstein Pdf

Yes, we should hold public schools accountable for effectively spending the vast funds with which they have been entrusted. But accountability policies like No Child Left Behind, based exclusively on math and reading test scores, have narrowed the curriculum, misidentified both failing and successful schools, and established irresponsible expectations for what schools can accomplish. Instead of just grading progress in one or two narrow subjects, we should hold schools accountable for the broad outcomes we expect from public education —basic knowledge and skills, critical thinking, an appreciation of the arts, physical and emotional health, and preparation for skilled employment —and then develop the means to measure and ensure schools’ success in achieving them. Grading Education describes a new kind of accountability plan for public education, one that relies on higher-quality testing, focuses on professional evaluation, and builds on capacities we already possess. This important resource: Describes the design of an alternative accountability system that would not corrupt education as does NCLB and its state testing systems Explains the original design of NAEP in the 1960s, and shows why it should be revived. Defines the broad goals of education, beyond math and reading test scores, and reports on surveys to confirm public and governmental support for such goals. Relates these broad goals of education to the desire for accountability in education.

Author : Jacqueline Baxter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319525365

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School Inspectors by Jacqueline Baxter Pdf

This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy. Inspection policy can have various unintended consequences, some of which produce radical discrepancies between the policy intent and its implementation. A number of these discrepancies derive from the way in which the policy is articulated while others derive from the ways in which inspectors interpret and operationalise this policy. This implementation is coloured and conditioned by several factors, including the evidence on which inspectors base their judgements; what counts as evidence in different policy contexts; what counts as valid knowledge in inspection processes; the qualities needed by inspectors working in differing policy contexts and the identities that they adopt in order to successfully carry out their work. The book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the politics and practices which colour and shape the legitimacy and operational execution of inspection policy. The work is unique in its focus on the inspectors’ role within the implementation of the inspection process— an element often overlooked in the literature. It also includes two chapters co-written by inspectors, offering unique insights into their life worlds and identities.

Author : Jacob Easley II,Pierre Tulowitzki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317678144

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Educational Accountability by Jacob Easley II,Pierre Tulowitzki Pdf

Educational Accountability: International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership provides an opportunity to assess, reflect on, and discuss current issues surrounding accountability policies in education from around the globe and the implications they hold for school leadership. It addresses the global trend of accountability policies expanding in scope to include the education profession as well as the increasing incidence of international policy borrowing, brought on chiefly by globalisation. Specific case studies offer a contextual examination of the theory, policy and practice of accountability and an inspection of their influence on school leadership. Cases are intentionally juxtaposed to provide a broad perspective of regional and cultural similarities and departures, and are arranged to reflect the diasporic Chinese, Anglo, European, and Hispanic societies. Bringing together a number of highly regarded experts within the field, the book cultivates a global perspective on the challenges and possibilities for school leaders to foster school effectiveness and improvement. Educational Accountability should be key reading for researchers, policy makers, and current and future school leaders.

Author : Philip A. Woods,Amanda Roberts,Meng Tian,Howard Youngs
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800880429

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Handbook on Leadership in Education by Philip A. Woods,Amanda Roberts,Meng Tian,Howard Youngs Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook explores how to best understand, develop and practise educational leadership in an era of significant disruption to education. Contributors evaluate the latest developments in leadership in education and provide novel insights into key conceptual and methodological issues.

Author : Beverley Freedman,Raf Di Cecco
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452242958

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Collaborative School Reviews by Beverley Freedman,Raf Di Cecco Pdf

There are many forms of performance accountability for schools and school systems - national exams, inspections, audits, and school self-assessments. School reviews, as a sub-set of school self-assessments are a lesser-known strategy to move schools along the continuum of improvement. This title explores how reviews are designed as a change management strategy. The aim is to engage staff in building shared understanding and commitment for improvement. There are four key components to the model: design, planning, implementation, and securing accountability.