Measuring Quality: Education Indicators : United Kingdom and International Perspectives, Paperback / softback Book

Measuring Quality: Education Indicators : United Kingdom and International Perspectives Paperback / softback

Edited by Kathryn A. Riley, Desmond L. Nuttall

Part of the Routledge Revivals series

Paperback / softback

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Moves to develop indicators about school effectiveness and performance have been driven by national trends and debates about performance and accountability.

Nationally set indicators – such as the standard assessment tasks, or the publication of performance in public examinations – have increasingly become part of the new education currency: a medium for exercising choice and decision-making in the new education market place.

As contributors to this book suggest, such a framework is not unproblematic. Originally published in 1994, this book offers a number of insights into the general debate about performance indicators at the time.

It explores the background to the debate; the differing perspectives of policy-makers and practitioners; and the purpose, audiences and values of education indicators, both in the UK and elsewhere.

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