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Irish teachers, starting on a journey of data use for school self-evaluation
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In this article, the authors explore how teachers in Irish post-primary schools are coming to terms with the new challenge of school self-evaluation (SSE) and explore the use of data by the schools involved.About:
This article is published in Studies in Educational Evaluation.The article was published on 2019-03-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compulsory education & Action research.read more
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Teachers' intentions to use national literacy and numeracy assessment data
Robyn Pierce,Helen Chick +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored factors affecting Mathematics and English teachers' intentions to engage with the statistical data their schools receive and to consider these data when making decisions about their teaching practices.
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‘I think Irish schools need to keep doing what they’re doing’: Irish teachers’ views on school autonomy after working in English academies:
TL;DR: Despite a lack of conclusive evidence connecting autonomous schools and academic success, school autonomy is regularly championed as being a way of not only improving schools but also as a way to improvise as discussed by the authors.
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Parent and Student Voice in Evaluation and Planning in Schools.
Martin Brown,Gerry McNamara,Shivaun O’Brien,Craig Skerritt,Joe O’Hara,Jerich Faddar,Sakir Cinqir,Jan Vanhoof,Maria Pacheco Figueiredo,Gül Kurum +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to the regulation of schools in most jurisdictions that combines elements of external inspection with systems of internal self-evaluation, which is becoming an increasingly important aspect of t...
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Findings of quality management studies in primary and secondary education: a systematic literature review
TL;DR: A systematic literature review (SLR) of articles focusing on QM in primary and secondary education was carried out based on major publishers, namely Emerald Online, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier/Science Direct, Springer Link, Sage Publishing and Online.
Designing School Systems to Encourage Data Use and Instructional Improvement: A Comparison of Educational Organizations.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how two types of education systems (school districts and CMOs) use data and allocate their organizational resources to this end, and found that key contextual differences had a strong influence on data-use efforts, whereas other organizational conditions restricted or facilitated the systems' mobilization of resources for these efforts.
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