Governance and Performance of Education SystemsNils C. Soguel, Pierre Jaccard Springer Science & Business Media, 4. okt. 2007 - 330 sider Education has increasingly become the focus of public discourse and policy, with its methods, resources and achievements widely debated. As a result, educational systems are now more than ever faced with the challenge of improving their performance and of proving that suitable measures are being taken to guarantee greater efficiency regarding equity. This desire for better results requires that better methods for their measurement exist so that they can be better understood and, ultimately, improved. Several disciplines have already developed instruments for this purpose. The educational sciences have been particularly active in this field. Other disciplines, such as sociology, economics, management, information technology, and political science are also making significant contributions to the emergence of a better form of governance. Before one can benefit from these developments, one first must know about their existence and analyse and question them. The proposed book is unique in that it brings together a wide range of disciplines and experience from several countries. What are possible models of governance? How do we measure their effects in terms of efficiency and equity? What type of contribution can financial and information systems make? How do we adapt the prevailing culture to the challenge of better performance? These are some of the concrete questions to which this book provides an answer. |
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... PISA, an international 15-year-old students assessment program. She coordinated with Marc Demeuse the Socrates project designed to build European Indicators on the Equity of the Education Systems. She has co-authored several papers on ...
... (PISA) since 2000 and International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) since 1992, just to mention the most commonly cited. The economic downturn of the 1990s and the resulting government fiscal crisis, together with the fact that the ...
... PISA 2000 or 2003 survey and to Switzerland, thus taking chance of the diversity of cantons' institutional settings triggered by the Swiss federalist structure. In her contribution, Justina Fischer addresses the question to what extent ...
... PISA 2000 score for reading in each school and a measure of dispersion around the average are used as output measures to reflect both efficiency and equity issues. The number of hours of supervision per year, the number of teachers per ...
... PISA surveys, the Finnish education system has received plenty of attention from all over the world. Thus, a volume such as this one had to look for explanations. Reijo Laukkanen shows that there are many different explanations, but the ...
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Comparing Higher Education Governance Systems in Four European Countries | 35 |
Purpose and Limits of a National Monitoring of the Education System Through Indicators 57 | 56 |
Measuring and Comparing the Equity of Education Systems in Europe | 85 |
The Economic Benefits of Improved Teacher Quality | 107 |
Comments | 131 |
Direct Democracy and Public Education in Swiss Cantons | 137 |
Are Swiss Secondary Schools Efficient? | 187 |
Funding Schools by Formula | 205 |
School Size School Structure and Student Composition 247 | 246 |
The Potential of School Information Systems for Enhancing School Improvement 269 | 267 |
French Principals Strategies | 289 |
Finnish Strategy for HighLevel Education for All | 305 |
Index | 325 |
Multilevel Analysis for Three Swiss Cantons | 155 |
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