Introduction -- Multi-level Governance in Universities: Strategy, Structure, Control. Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, and Markus Reihlen -- Part I: Strategy -- 1 Institutional Change of European Higher Education: The Case of Post-war Germany. Markus Reihlen and Ferdinand Wenzlaff -- 2 Academic Entrepreneurialism and Changing Governance in Universities. Evidence from Empirical Studies. Marek Kwiek -…
1. Introducing School Inspections -- PART I. Understanding School Inspection Frameworks -- 2. The Evidence Base for School Inspection Frameworks -- 3. Validation of Inspection Frameworks and Methods -- PART II. The Current Evidence Base of School Inspection Research -- 4. School Inspections and School Improvement; The Current Evidence Base -- 5. Side Effects of School Inspection; Motivations an…
Data, Information and Questions of Pupil Progress -- Primary School Teachers’ Use of ICT for Administration and Management -- Reaping ITEM Benefits -- Managing Accountability Innovations in Distance-Learning Programs -- Extending the Classroom -- Systemic Reform Efforts in the U.S. -- Developing an Integrated School Information System -- Computerised School Information Systems Usage in an Eme…
Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.
About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- 1. Reconceptualising Instructional Leadership: Exploring the Relationships between Leadership, Instructional Design, Assessment, and Student Needs -- PART 1: Pragmatics of Assessment Leadership – What Leaders Need to Know About Assessment -- PART 2. Pragmatics of Assessment Leadership in the Disciplines -- PART 3: Pragmatics of Assessment Leaders…
Foreword -- Contributors -- Part I: Distributed Leadership: Theory and Practice -- Distributed Leadership and Context: Theory and Practice Dimensions in Systems, Schools and Communities; Greer Johnson, Neil Dempster and Elizabeth Wheeley -- Part II: Leadership and Systems -- Turnaround school leadership: from paradigms to promises; Ira Bogotch, Daniel Reyes-Guerra and Jennifer Freeland -- Exami…
An outcome of international conferences on the professional practice doctorate has been a continuing conversation amongst scholarly practitioners focused on addressing challenges and issues being encountered concerning in the number and variety of professional practice doctorates in the twenty-first century. These conversations have resulted in a proliferation of programs utilizing a variety of…
1. Directions for our investigation of the chain of governance and the agents; Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen -- Part I: Country reports -- 2. Danish superintendents are players in multiple networks; Lejf Moos, Klaus Kasper Kofod, Ulf Brinkkjær -- 3. Finnish superintendents are striving with the the changing operational environment; Mika Risku, Pekka Kanervio, Seppo Pulkkinen …
The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose.
1. Dialogic Interdisciplinary Self-Study through the Practice of Duoethnography -- Section One: Duoethnographies of Classroom Practice -- 2. In Search of an Artistic Curriculum Identity -- 3. Tracing the Roots of a Desire for Mutualist Teaching and Learning: Valuing Community Building and Democratic Classrooms -- 4. Talking with Rousseau: Pedagogic Encounters with the Curriculum Ghosts of Early…