...Ronni Laursen; Nanna Limskov Stærk Christensen Purpose This article explores how school leaders in primary and lower secondary schools strategically use different types of data to navigate the dual demands of accountability and professional learning. Design/methodology/approach Based...

...A. Chris Torres Purpose As school districts evolve in their ability to actively support schools and educators, they must simultaneously contend with external policies that create additional demands on time and resources. This includes accountability policies aimed at increasing district and school...

... of school provision aimed at equitable excellence. Findings Equitable excellence in school provision is possible if choice is available across geolocation and socio-educational (dis)advantage, schools have autonomy over fiscal, personnel and curricular matters, public accountability is linked...

...David Kemethofer; Christoph Weber; Stefan Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz; Petros Pashiardis Purpose In an era of increased autonomy and accountability in education, school principals have been given the responsibility for many tasks that used to be centralized, such as hiring and managing personnel...

... of a broader accountability policy system. Most peer-reviewed research studies address one stage of accountability or turnaround policy at a time: when and how accountability systems identify schools as low performing (Hansen, 2012 ; Hochbein et al., 2013); when schools are developing school...

... guided the analysis. Findings Partners used data for both accountability and continuous improvement. Educators were required to document student growth for state accountability purposes, while providing evidence of the public value of the academies to the community. Data use for continuous...

... on education administration. This paper contributes not only to the body of knowledge about school principal behavior but also to the field’s familiarity of research techniques. The main thrust of education reforms like NCLB was not teacher certification, of course, but test-based accountability...

...Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen; Astrid Roe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine teachers’ reported experiences, practices, and attitudes on the use of national test results in a low-stakes accountability context. Whether the stakes are high or low, teachers and school leaders have different...

... management (SBM) and accountability principles. Design/methodology/approach Using the qualitative method, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with school principals from one district in Israel. Thematic analysis was used in order to identify themes in the interviews that enable creating codes...

...Esther Dominique Klein Purpose Increased school autonomy and accountability have been a common denominator of national reforms in otherwise heterogeneous governance systems in Europe and the USA. The paper argues that because schools serving disadvantaged communities (SSDCs) often have lower...

... to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach This ethnographic study examines how data-centric accountability and improvement efforts surface as practices for 36 science teachers in three secondary schools. For two years, researchers were embedded in schools alongside teachers moving through daily...

...Nora Gannon-Slater; Priya G. La Londe; Hope L. Crenshaw; Margaret E. Evans; Jennifer C. Greene; Thomas A. Schwandt Purpose Data use cultures in schools determine data use practices. Such cultures can be muted by powerful macro accountability and organizational learning cultures. Further, strong...

...Brette Garner; Jennifer Kahn Thorne; Ilana Seidel Horn Purpose Though test-based accountability policies seek to redress educational inequities, their underlying theories of action treat inequality as a technical problem rather than a political one: data point educators toward ameliorative actions...

...Michael R. Ford; Douglas M. Ihrke Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the differing ways in which nonprofit charter and traditional public school board members define the concept of accountability in the school or schools they oversee. The findings speak to the governing consequences...

...Zehava Rosenblatt Purpose The purpose of this paper, three-study research project, is to establish and validate a two-dimensional scale to measure teachers’ and school administrators’ accountability disposition. Design/methodology/approach The scale items were developed in focus groups...

... their work to build accountability and commitment as complementary, while others see these two areas as in tension. Principals remain relatively consistent in these approaches over their first year on the job, although some principals change their views, generally coming to see these two areas...

... facing conditions of accountability. Design/methodology/approach – Review of literature. Findings – Drawing from the work of Robinson et al. (2008), the authors identify and discuss a set of nuanced considerations and actions for school leaders seeking to improve school-wide student...

...Marytza A. Gawlik Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which charter school leaders influence the understanding and conception of accountability policy and how that understanding translates into practice. In particular, this paper draws from sense-making theory...

...Lisa C. Ehrich; Jessica Harris; Val Klenowski; Judy Smeed; Nerida Spina Purpose – The central argument in this paper is that ethical school leadership is imperative in a context of increasing performance-driven accountability. The purpose of this paper is to focus on school principals...

... have been heard in 45 states; the judicial interpretation of the requirement to provide equality of educational opportunity has led to changes in finance distribution models as well as the implementation of accountability policy. Design/methodology/approach – The study included district level...