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Oude Groote Beverborg, Arnoud, Ed.; Feldhoff, Tobias, Ed.; Maag Merki, Katharina, Ed.; Radisch, Falk, Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Improvement, Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research
Godfrey, David, Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2020
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…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Accountability, Educational Change
Dobbelaer, M. J.; Godfrey, D.; Franssen, H. M. B. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
Due to national and international policy drivers The Dutch Inspectorate of Education is reforming its supervision with a mission to promote school improvement in all Dutch schools. One of the chosen mechanisms to achieve this is the provision of feedback by inspectors to school leaders, special educational needs coordinators, and teachers…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Inspection, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Improvement
Moreton, Henry J.; Boylan, Mark; Simkins, Tim – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2017
The relationship between headteachers and inspection is complex, particularly when in service head teachers are employed as inspectors. This study takes the English case of inspection to examine how headteachers interpret their work and agency as inspectors. Employing ideas on 'boundary crossing' it is informed by, and contributes to, the…
Descriptors: Principals, Evaluators, Inspection, Foreign Countries
Ehren, Melanie C. M., Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This book provides an overview and discussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles and responsibilities of Inspectorates of Education. Chapters include findings from…
Descriptors: Inspection, Institutional Evaluation, Schools, Validity
Ehren, Melanie C. M. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This chapter identifies and summarizes the findings from international empirical research on the impact of school inspections. A systematic literature review was undertaken to describe the empirical evidence on (positive) effects from school inspections in four categories: school staff intentions to improve and reflections on school quality,…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Inspection, Educational Research, Literature Reviews
Ehren, Melanie C. M. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This chapter introduces four mechanisms of change to explain how school inspections may lead to improvement of school quality and higher student outcomes, schools accepting and using inspection feedback, the setting of expectations around inspections standards and methods, voice, choice and exit of stakeholders to motivate school improvement, and…
Descriptors: Inspection, Program Effectiveness, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Improvement
Ehren, Melanie C. M. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This book presented the methods and modalities of effective school inspections, summarizing the current evidence base and discussing issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research. In our book we have focused on inspections of single schools which are currently dominating the landscape of both…
Descriptors: Inspection, School Effectiveness, Accountability, Educational Improvement
Scheerens, Jaap; Ehren, Melanie C. M. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This chapter describes how Inspectorates of Education operationalize different inspection goals (control, improvement, and liaison) in their inspection indicator frameworks. The chapter provides an overview and examples of the indicators used across a number of countries and how these are incorporated in inspection frameworks to evaluate and…
Descriptors: Inspection, Institutional Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Educational Indicators