Governance and Performance of Education Systems

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Soguel, Nils C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Jaccard, Pierre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Θέματα: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Assessment.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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 tak...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Governance and Performance of Education Systems
• Introduction: Governance and Performance of Education Systems
• The Changing Governance of Educational Systems
• The New Regulation Forms of Educational Systems in Europe: Towards a Post-bureaucratic Regime
• Comparing Higher Education Governance Systems in Four European Countries
• Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
• Purpose and Limits of a National Monitoring of the Education System Through Indicators
• Measuring and Comparing the Equity of Education Systems in Europe
• The Economic Benefits of Improved Teacher Quality
• Direct Democracy and Public Education in Swiss Cantons
• School Factors Related to Quality: Multilevel Analysis for Three Swiss Cantons
• Are Swiss Secondary Schools Efficient?
• Explaining and Controlling the Costs of Education Systems
• Funding Schools by Formula
• A Cost Model of Schools: School Size, School Structure and Student Composition
• Strategies to Encourage Performance and Equity
• The Potential of School Information Systems for Enhancing School Improvement
• School Autonomy and Financial Manoeuvrability: French Principals’ Strategies
• Finnish Strategy for High-Level Education for All.