Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques

Jaap Scheerens

Centre pour la recherche et l'innovation dans l'enseignement

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

As part of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development project on international educational indicators, four networks were formed to represent different domains. This collection contains background papers that were prepared to deal with some of the fundamental questions about process indicators examined by Network "C," the network that, under the leadership of The Netherlands, was given the task of measuring indicators of schools and school processes. The following papers are included: (1) "Internationally Comparable Indicators of Educational Programmes and Processes: Identification, Measurement and Interpretation" (Jaap Scheerens); (2) "Comparer les structure de decision des systemes educatifs: un bilan de l'approache quantitative (Comparison of Decision-Making Structures in Education Systems: A Review of the Quantitative Approach)" (Denis Meuet, Jacques Prod'hom, and Eugen Stocker); (3) "The Selection and Definition of International Indicators on Teachers" (Jaap Scheerens); (4) "Curriculum Indicators in International Comparative Research" (Willem J. Pelgrum, Joke Voogt, and Tjeerd Plomp); (5) "Process Indicators on School Functioning and the Generalisability of School Factor Models across Countries" (Bert Creemers); (6) "The Development of Indicators on Equity in Education" (Alan Gibson and Denis Meuret); (7) "The Search for Indicators on the Effective Functioning of Tertiary Education Institutions" (Alan Gibson); (8) "The Use of Performance Indicators in School Improvement and Accountability" (Carmo Climaco); (9) "Perspectives on Decision-Making in Education Systems and the Development of the Network C Locus of Decision-Making Survey" (Darrel Drury, Laura Hersh Salganik, and Marilyn M. McMillen); (10) "La mise en place d'un dispositif d'indicateurs pour le pilotage des establissements secondaires francais (Implementation of a System of Indicators for the Steering of French Secondary Schools)" (Jean-Calude Emin); and (11) "Interpretation and Use of Education Indicators" (Erik Wallin). Each chapter contains references. (Contains 2 boxes, 17 figures, and 19 tables.) (SLD)

Measuring the Quality of Schools

OECD Staff

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Staff

OCDE

OCDE. Centre pour la recherche et l'innovation dans l'enseignement

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

This book reports on an international study of quality in teaching in elementary and secondary schools and on policies to promote quality teaching in 11 countries. The study on which the book is based called on case studies by experts from 11 countries on policies to improve the quality of teaching, seminars for teachers to discuss the definition of quality and what affects it, and descriptions of new developments in initial teacher education. Participating countries were Australia, Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. Chapter 1 places the study in the context of previous research and ongoing reforms of educational systems. Chapter 2 reviews the conceptual framework and procedures used in the country studies. Chapter 3 describes the samples of schools studied in each country. Chapter 4 presents the strong similarities among countries in the attributes and actions of good teachers. Chapter 5 explains the range of policies to improve teacher quality that were described in the country studies. Chapter 6 describes characteristics of schools that support high quality education. Chapter 7 analyses some of the implications and possible conflicts among initiatives to improve teacher quality that arise from central policies, local schools, and individual teachers themselves. Contains 56 references. (JB)

Quality in Teaching

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

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