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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... teacher employment, detailed curricula and teaching techniques, increased variability in the resource available to students with voucher systems and grants tailored to results, stimulated parental choice either between private and ...
... teachers' qualification appears as the most influential (and beneficial) determinant, which, in turn, is positively ... teacher) that are identical for all its pupils but that differ from one class to another. At a third level, all ...
... teachers per pupil, the number of teachers having a teaching diploma per pupil and the number of computers per pupil are used as input measures. Her analysis of efficiency scores indicates that only a fraction of the Swiss secondary ...
... teaching and learning, but also school administration, management and leadership. Ian Selwood and Adrie Visscher ... teacher workload. Naturally, to be able to implement such instrumental strategies, schools must benefit from adequate ...
... teachers, an autonomy founded on their expertise and professional skills. Thus, teachers have found themselves granted a wide margin of manoeuvrability their individual teaching activity, notably for coping with the “uncertainties” of ...
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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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