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Measuring quality : education indicators--United Kingdom and international perspectives
- Title
- Measuring quality : education indicators--United Kingdom and international perspectives / edited by Kathryn A. Riley and Desmond L. Nuttall.
- Publication
- London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1994.
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- Description
- vi, 140 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Moves to develop indicators about school effectiveness and performance have been driven by national trends and debates about performance and accountability. Nationally set indicators - such as the standard assessment tasks, or the publication of performance in public examinations - have increasingly become part of the new education currency: a medium for exercising choice and decision-making in the new education market place. As contributors to this book suggest, such a framework is not unproblematic. This book offers a number of insights into the general debate about performance indicators. It explores the background to the debate; the differing perspectives of policy-makers and practitioners; and the purpose, audiences and values of education indicators, both in the UK and elsewhere.
- Subject
- Educational indicators > Great Britain
- Educational evaluation > Great Britain
- Educational accountability > Great Britain
- Educational indicators
- Educational evaluation
- Educational accountability
- Bildungswesen
- Evaluation
- Indikator
- Internationaler Vergleich
- Qualität
- Qualitätskontrolle
- Schule
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The Framework / Kathryn A. Riley and Desmond L. Nuttall -- Ch. 2. Education Indicators: Officials, Ministers and the Demand for Information / Alan Ruby -- Ch. 3. Choosing Indicators / Desmond L. Nuttall -- Ch. 4. How Indicators Have Been Used in the USA / Ramsay Selden -- Ch. 5. Quality, Surveillance and Performance Measurement / Kieron Walsh -- Ch. 6. Performance Indicators: Flourish or Perish? / John Gray and Brian Wilcox -- Ch. 7. Following the Education Indicators Trail in the Pursuit of Quality / Kathryn A. Riley -- Ch. 8. A Role for Parents, Students and Teachers in School Self-Evaluation and Development Planning / John MacBeath -- Ch. 9. Measuring Performance -- National Contexts and Local Realities / Kathryn A. Riley and Desmond L. Nuttall.
- ISBN
- 0750702605
- 9780750702607
- 0750702613
- 9780750702614
- LCCN
- 94002854
- OCLC
- ocm29797146
- 29797146
- SCSB-8904821
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library