The use of key performance indicators has dramatically increased over the last twenty or so years. Their introduction has been largely justified on the grounds that high stakes proxy indicators (test and exam results), increase accountability which will in turn `drive up' overall performance. Whilst there has been some evidence that measured standards have risen, there have been associated costs, as well as claims of unintended or dysfunctional consequences. The place of KPIs within the broader organisational and managerial context was firstly considered. with particular reference to generic management and accounting theory. Secondly, the results of a questionnaire survey of 162 heads and teachers in England and Scotland was reported. The key findings included evidence that KPIs had a narrowing effect on the curriculum, that they tended to undermine heads and teachers, and encouraged a blame culture. There was also evidence that they caused schools to concentrate on targets at the expense of other important objectives, as well as concentrating on `boarder-line' pupils. English primary schools reported far more dysfunctional behaviour due to KPIs, than did their Scottish counter parts. This was attributed to league tables which Scottish primaries do not have. At the secondary level the results were similar, tables are published for secondary schools in both countries. There was widespread support for changes to the KPIs, including the use of a wider range of measures and `value added' indicators, as well as discontinuing league tables. Improvements to the KPI systems were discussed, including the use of `balanced score card' systems; however, it was argued that such technical changes need to be accompanied by more fundamental organisational changes. There needs to be `top down' leadership, which devolves trust and responsibility, rather than blame and accountability; and one that will develop and nurture a true learning culture throughout the education system.

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The political motives for reinstating national school inspection in 2003 and reinforcing it through the establishment of the Swedish School Inspectoratein 2008 stressed the necessity of sufficient state involvement in order to retain and ensure nationwide educational quality and equivalence. Since then, additional political efforts have been made to intensify and exercise national state control over education. On July 1, 2011, the Education Act gave the agency enhanced legal support. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze a sample of school leaders' stories of the regular inspection that have been conducted in their schools since the legal changes came into force. School leaders of 20 compulsory schools were interviewed. Theinterviews were analyzed and the results were presented in eight themes. In the following analysis, change mechanisms that had been initiated in the schools during the inspection process were examined through a theoretical framework of evaluation influence. The results from the second analys is also illustrated conceivable forms of pathways that link inspection processes to inspection outcomes. Finally, the empirical findings were discussed in terms of constitutive effects and education governance. The study was a part of the research project "Governing by inspection. School inspection and education governance in Sweden, England and Scotland".

This study investigated a local aspect of theSwedish elementary school modernization process between the years 1871-1882.Previous studies have been drawn from the school inspectors own reports andshow that the schoolboards housed a negative and resentful attitude towardsreforms and the school inspectors often felt that the parish priests were moreinclined to changes than the schoolboards themselves.  Other research on elementary schoolmodernization has stressed the matching grants as a major cause of developmentand further establishment. In this study, however, a schoolboards own notes inthe form of meeting protocols during an eleven year period as well as a letterby a priest Erik Lundberg, Redogörelseför skolhusfrågan i Tierp dated 6 October 1880 were analyzed to see if theprevious explanation of school modernization, in particular with regard to thereluctance to change by the schoolboards goes to demonstrate and confirm. Theresults of this study have shown that even if the schoolboards do notimmediately follow the school inspectors instructions, it seems not primarilybeen due to resentment. Reforms within the school world are well known forbeing time-consuming but for the current period, as this study concerns andwithin this specific parish there were conflicts of interest which are notshown when only the inspector’s accounts and reports are examined. The late 1900thcentury was a time with a great deal of overwhelming and overthrowingreformations and changes witch challenged its previous social structuresthrough industrialization, urbanization and new political currents. Developmentand change occurs faster than news of it could travel, and it has been aninteresting journey to study these documents and to get a glimpse into how aschoolboard in a rural parish dealt with expansion and change.

This is a qualitative study that investigated the experience of school inspectors in ensuring quality teaching and learning in primary schools in Northern Uganda, using hermeneutics phenomenological design. The study was underpinned by relative ontology, personal epistemology and accountability theory. In-depth interviews and document analysis were used to explore the understanding of the school inspectors on quality teaching and learning, techniques they use to ensure quality teaching and learning, their effectiveness and challenges. The study revealed that the inspectors understand quality teaching and learning as a multidimensional reality that entails attaining of literacy and numeracy; life skills; holistic development of learners; teachers’ competencies and professionalism; measure of learning achievement; broadness without ambiguity; collaborative; innovate; dynamic and contextual issue. The main techniques that the inspectors used to ensure quality teaching and learning in the primary schools are: assessment of quality of inputs into educational programs; assessment of educational processes; assessment of learning outcomes;psychosocial support; ensuring compliance with educational standards, laws and regulations; creating awareness on educational standards, laws and regulations; administration of rewards and sanctions. The study showed that the inspectors believe that they have been effective in supporting teachers; improving learning, learning environment and professional development of teachers; fighting corruption and malpractices among teachers. They however experienced insubordination of teachers; negative attitude of teachers towards the teaching profession; inadequate training of teachers; failure of teachers to adhere to educational laws; policies and regulations; excess work overload to the school inspectors; negative perception of some teachers on school inspection; corruption; lack of resources for school inspection; ineffectiveness of the head teachers; and difficulties in enforcing educational standards, rules, regulations and laws. They mainly use laws, policies and regulations and peer to peer support as the strategies to solve problems which they encounter in ensuring quality teaching and learning in the primary schools. The unique contribution of the study is that quality teaching and learning as understood by primary school inspectors is a multidimensional reality that can best be achieved using a logical, psychosocial legal approach. Policies, practices and future studies need to examine critically the dynamics and characteristics of these approaches to quality teaching and learning in primary schools. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019. / pt2021 / Education Management and Policy Studies / PhD / Unrestricted

The diploma work is focused on the field of security and health protection in the school facilities. It is based on the analysis of the legal regulations and it compares them to the information published in the inspectional, annual and thematic reports of the Czech School Inspection. The research part deals with the analysis of the public and closed documents of the Czech School Inspection. It refers to the most common abuse of the legal rules in the comparison to the facts published in the mentioned reports of the Czech School Inspection. The diploma work contains the total view of the legal regulations targeted on the field of security and health protection and determines the duties which are obligatory for the headmasters. Focused on the documents the work finds out the most frequent mistakes and examples of breaking the rules, it searches for the cause of the cases and sugests the ways how to prevent from the mistakes.

This thesis explores the professional discretion in relation to national inspections by focussing on the Swedish national school inspection (SNSI) and how the inspections made can affect the professional discretion. During the last decades the Swedish welfare sector has gone through a remarkable shift towards using new public management (NPM) reforms, implementing market solutions with the aim to increase cost efficiency and quality. These reforms have caused a huge impact on the education system in Sweden, such as the privatisation of schools and shifting responsibility from the state to the local municipalities. The development of the NPM has also increased the auditing in order to assure that welfare service produces high quality services, where national inspection has been an increasingly popular method of auditing. Extensive research studying the relationship between auditing and de-professionalization is available and many argue that auditing decrease the professional discretion. Despite the research, there is an empirical gap to how national inspection affects professional discretion. This is surprising as national inspections at least theoretically should be able to both undermine and support professional discretion. The controlling inspection type can from this view be argued to undermine professional influence by using top-down steering not considering professional knowledge and experience. The supporting inspection type uses more bottom-up strategies in dialogue with the professions and can theoretically thus be seen as more supporting of professionalism. The aim of this thesis is to initiate the bridging of this gap by analysing the SNSI different inspection types in relation to professional discretion. The results of the study suggest that the SNSI uses two controlling type of inspections as well as one new supporting type of inspection. The supporting inspection type is found to undermine professional discretion, while the two different controlling inspections both support and undermine the professional discretion depending on how the inspection is conducted. This gives evidence to how a supporting inspection type actually can undermine professional discretion more than the controlling inspection types.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo propõe uma análise das relações de poder que circulam nas práticas da Inspeção Escolar da Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como cenário principal as condições que permitiram a realização do concurso para o cargo Professor Inspetor Escolar em 2007. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho foram utilizadas as contribuições de Michel Foucault e da Análise Institucional. O primeiro capítulo, A produção da Inspeção Escolar, faz uma revisão das condições que produziram a necessidade da atuação da Inspeção Escolar no Brasil e as condições que contribuíram para a realização do concurso para o cargo Professor Inspetor Escolar em 2007. O segundo capítulo, A fiscalização permanente, discute as práticas desenvolvidas pela Inspeção Escolar que evidenciam o uso de técnicas disciplinares, que contribuíram para o fortalecimento do neoliberalismo. O terceiro capítulo, Análise de Implicação, traz reflexões sobre as questões que se evidenciam nas práticas atuais do grupo de Inspeção Escolar da Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, a partir dos conceitos da Análise Institucional / This study purposes an analysis about power exchanges in Scholar Inspections practices in State Department of Education in Rio de Janeiro, having as main scenario conditions that allowed the competition for the post of Teacher School Inspector in 2007. The main source for the development of the work was the contributions of Michel Foucault in Institutional Analysis. The first chapter, "The production of School Inspection", reviews the conditions that led the need for a School Inspection in Brazil and the conditions that contributed to the tender for the job of Teacher School Inspector in 2007. The second chapter, "The permanent supervision", explores the practices developed by the School Inspection evincing the use of disciplinary techniques that contributed to the strengthening of neoliberalism. The third chapter, "Implication Analysis" provides reflections on issues that stand out in current practices of the School Inspection Group of the State Department of Education in Rio de Janeiro, from the light of Institutional Analysis.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo propõe uma análise das relações de poder que circulam nas práticas da Inspeção Escolar da Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como cenário principal as condições que permitiram a realização do concurso para o cargo Professor Inspetor Escolar em 2007. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho foram utilizadas as contribuições de Michel Foucault e da Análise Institucional. O primeiro capítulo, A produção da Inspeção Escolar, faz uma revisão das condições que produziram a necessidade da atuação da Inspeção Escolar no Brasil e as condições que contribuíram para a realização do concurso para o cargo Professor Inspetor Escolar em 2007. O segundo capítulo, A fiscalização permanente, discute as práticas desenvolvidas pela Inspeção Escolar que evidenciam o uso de técnicas disciplinares, que contribuíram para o fortalecimento do neoliberalismo. O terceiro capítulo, Análise de Implicação, traz reflexões sobre as questões que se evidenciam nas práticas atuais do grupo de Inspeção Escolar da Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, a partir dos conceitos da Análise Institucional / This study purposes an analysis about power exchanges in Scholar Inspections practices in State Department of Education in Rio de Janeiro, having as main scenario conditions that allowed the competition for the post of Teacher School Inspector in 2007. The main source for the development of the work was the contributions of Michel Foucault in Institutional Analysis. The first chapter, "The production of School Inspection", reviews the conditions that led the need for a School Inspection in Brazil and the conditions that contributed to the tender for the job of Teacher School Inspector in 2007. The second chapter, "The permanent supervision", explores the practices developed by the School Inspection evincing the use of disciplinary techniques that contributed to the strengthening of neoliberalism. The third chapter, "Implication Analysis" provides reflections on issues that stand out in current practices of the School Inspection Group of the State Department of Education in Rio de Janeiro, from the light of Institutional Analysis.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-09-29T13:45:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 luiscarloshenriquesmonteiro.pdf: 2438332 bytes, checksum: e1c92d8768055d207672ed01afaa9e63 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-10-09T19:39:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 luiscarloshenriquesmonteiro.pdf: 2438332 bytes, checksum: e1c92d8768055d207672ed01afaa9e63 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-09T19:39:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 luiscarloshenriquesmonteiro.pdf: 2438332 bytes, checksum: e1c92d8768055d207672ed01afaa9e63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-17 / A presente dissertação é desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). O caso de gestão estudado discute os desafios da Inspeção Escolar na Certificação de alunos concluintes nas escolas da rede pública estadual, na Regional Metropolitana I em Nova Iguaçu/RJ, e nas escolas extintas. Nesse sentido, a questão de pesquisa que norteia esse estudo é: quais os desafios da ação do Inspetor Escolar no que se refere ao processo de certificação de alunos concluintes? Os objetivos definidos para este estudo foram: identificar e analisar os índices de atendimento nas quatro escolas da rede pública estudadas, no que se refere à dificuldade da publicação de alunos concluintes, que devem estar relacionados para publicação no Diário Oficial do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, e sua posterior certificação, e, também, a Certificação e emissão de documentos escolares para prosseguimento de estudos, de alunos oriundos de escolas extintas. Outro objetivo será propor um Plano de Ação Educacional que buscará auxiliar a gestão escolar e o próprio Inspetor a melhorar os índices encontrados nos focos da pesquisa. Assumimos como hipótese que há uma dificuldade da Inspeção Escolar no fazer cumprir e das escolas em atender aos prazos legais de certificação. Há ainda uma dificuldade de conscientização no sentido de garantir o direito do aluno e, ainda, a ausência de mecanismos de responsabilização pelo não cumprimento dos prazos. Como Referencial Teórico foram citados autores como: Abreu, Aguiar, Bourdieu, Luck, Marchiori, Mendes, Menezes, Rocha e Marques, Pichiani, Santos e Taylor. Para tanto, utilizamos como metodologia a pesquisa qualitativa por meio da análise de documentos das unidades escolares, mais especificamente os relativos a alunos concluintes e não certificados e de entrevistas com os diretores regionais, com os coordenadores de gestão de pessoas, de inspeção escolar e de escolas extintas, com os diretores e secretários escolares das escolas pesquisadas, além de questionários aplicados aos inspetores escolares. / The present dissertation is developed under the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Education (Professional Graduate Program) of the Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case to be studied will discuss the challenges of the School Inspection in the Certification of graduating students in the state‟s public schools network, in the Regional Metropolitana I in Nova Iguaçu / RJ, and in the extinct schools. In this point, the research question that guides this study is: what are the challenges of the School Inspector's action, regarding the process of certification students who will graduate? The objectives defined for this study were: to identify and analyze the attendance rates in the four schools of the public network studied, in relation to the difficulty of the publication of students who will graduate, which must be listed for publication in the Official Diary of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and its subsequent certification, and, also, the Certification and emission of school documents for the continuation of studies of students from extinct schools. Another objective will be to propose an Educational Action Plan, which will seek to assist school management and the Inspector himself to improve the indexes found in the research focus. We assume as hypothesis that there is a difficulty of the School Inspection in enforcing and of the schools in meeting the legal deadlines of certification. There is also a lack of awareness in order to guarantee student rights, and also the lack of accountability mechanisms for non-compliance with deadlines. As a reference, authors such as Abreu, Aguiar, Luck, Marchiori, Mendes, Menezes, Rocha and Marques, Pichiani, Santos and Taylor were cited. To do so, we will use qualitative research as a methodology through the analysis of school unit documents, specifically those related to the students who will graduate and non-certified students, and interviews with the regional directors, coordinators of people management, school inspection and Extinct schools, the principals and school secretaries of the schools chosen for research, and questionnaires to be applied to school inspectors.