Описание: This work discusses how the complex relationship between welfare policies of equity and market efficiencies/deficiencies of education policies is handled in local practices. It offers contributions from the five Nordic countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland - and pays special attention to questions about access and diversity in upper secondary education. The book draws on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and research projects and provides multiple perspectives of how upper secondary staff and students have experienced reforms of education governance during the last two or three decades. The research projects range from in-depth case studies to the analysis of large-scale data sets and inform practitioners, policy makers and researchers about practices of education policy that are highly influenced by market forces.
Описание: Moreover, principals and SPSs enjoyed a complicated working relationship at the micro-political (school) level in which they collaborated to fulfill their responsibilities and respond to school macro- and micro-political actors, while competing for power over leadership in citizenship education.
Автор: Moos Lejf, Nihlfors Elisabet, Paulsen Jan Merok Название: Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain ISBN: 3319797352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319797359 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts.
Автор: Lejf Moos; Elisabet Nihlfors; Jan Merok Paulsen Название: Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain ISBN: 331925104X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319251042 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts.
Описание: This book explores the increasing role of private providers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as they become a core part of the Nordic welfare model—one that once rejected for-profit involvement in public welfare. Within this context, ECEC has become the key battleground over private providers’ role in the welfare system. Chapters compare five Nordic countries: Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, to discuss possible benefits from having different types of providers—public, nonprofit, and for-profit—in the welfare mix. To conclude, the authors also provide a comparative perspective on governance of the ECEC sector and on the development and functions of the Nordic welfare model.
Описание: This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within universities; strategic and performance management; the rise of accountability regimes; incentive and evaluative systems; and perceived changes/effects by the key actors involved, at various levels. The volume provides critical insights to the larger phenomenon of change and adaptation within the public sector. Its findings and implications are of relevance to social science researchers, policy makers, managers/administrators, and external stakeholders.
1. Introduction;Sigrid Blцmeke and Jan-Eric Gustafsson.- PART 1: Fundamental Questions in Standard Setting.- 2. Using Empirical Results to Validate Performance Standards;Michael Kane.- 3. Weaknesses of the Traditional View of Standard Setting and a Suggested Alternative;Mark Wilson and Maria Veronica Santelices.- 4. Standard Setting: Bridging the World of Research and Policy Making;Hans Anand Pant, Simon P. Tiffin-Richards and Petra Stanat.- 5. Standard Setting in PISA and TIMSS and How these Procedures Can Be Used Nationally;Rolf Vegar Olsen and Trude Nilsen.- 6. In the Science and Practice of Standard Setting: Where is the Science Barbara S. Plake.- PART 2: Standard Setting in the Nordic Countries.- 7. Standard Setting in Denmark: Challenges through Computer-based Adaptive Testing;Peter Allerup and Christian Christrup Kjeldsen.- 8. Experiences with Standards and Criteria in Sweden;Gudrun Erickson.- 9. Validating Standard Setting in Sweden: Comparing Judgmental and Statistical Linking;Anna Lind Pantzare.- 10. National Tests in Norway: An Undeclared Standard in Education?Idunn Seland and Elisabeth Hovdhaugen.- 11. Setting Standards for Multistage Tests of Norwegian for Adult Immigrants;Eli Moe and Norman Verhelst.- 12. Standard Setting in a Formative Assessment of Digital Responsibility Among Norwegian Eighth Graders;Ove Edvard Hatlevik and Ingrid Radtke.- 13. Assessment for Learning and Standards: A Norwegian Strategy and Its Challenges;Gustaf B. Skar, Ragnar Thygesen, and Lars Sigfred Evensen.- 14. How Do Finns Know? Educational Monitoring without Inspection and Comprehensive Testing;Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen, Helena Thuneberg, Jukka Marjanen, Jarkko Hautamдki, Sirkku Kupiainen and Risto Hotulainen.- PART 3: New Methodological Approaches to Standard Setting.- 15. The Data-Driven Direct Consensus (3DC) Procedure: A New Approach to Standard Setting;Jos Keuning, J. Hendrik Straat, Remco C.W. Feskens and Karen Keune.- 16. Using Professional Judgement: A New Approach to Equating Exam Standards;Allistair Pollitt.- 17. Closing the Loop: Providing Test Developers with Performance Level Descriptors So Standard Setters Can Do Their Job; Amanda A. Wolkowitz, James C. Impara and Chad W. Buckendahl.- 18. Setting Standards to a Scientific Literacy Test for AdultsLinda I. Haschke, Nele N. Kampa, Inga Hahn, and Olaf Kцller.
Автор: Dr. Marca V.C. Wolfensberger Название: Talent Development in European Higher Education ISBN: 331912918X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319129181 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For each of these countries, it discusses the local culture towards excellence, the structure of the education system, and the presence of honors programs. In total, the book reviews the special talent provisions for nearly four million students at 303 higher education institutions in eleven countries.
Автор: Sigrid Bl?meke; Jan-Eric Gustafsson Название: Standard Setting in Education ISBN: 3319508555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319508559 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education. By critically discussing the standard-setting practices implemented in the Nordic countries and by presenting new methodological approaches, it offers fresh perspectives on the current research. Standard setting targets crucial societal objectives by defining educational benchmarks at different achievement levels, and provides feedback to policy makers, schools and teachers about the strengths and weaknesses of a school system.
Given that the consequences of standard setting can be dramatic, the quality of standard setting is a prime concern. If it fails, repercussions can be expected in terms of arbitrary evaluations of educational policy, wrong turns in school or teacher development or misplacement of individual students. Standard setting therefore needs to be accurate, reliable, valid, useful, and defensible.
However, specific evidence on the benefits and limits of different approaches to standard setting is rare and scattered, and there is a particular lack with respect to standard setting in the Nordic countries, where the number of national tests is increasing and there are concerns about the time and effort spent on testing at schools without feedback being provided. Addressing this gap, the book offers a discussion on standard setting by respected experts as well as profound and innovative insights into fundamental aspects of standard setting including conclusions for future methodological and policy-related research.
Название: Vocational Education in the Nordic Countries ISBN: 0367487810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367487812 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Vocational Education in the Nordic Countries: Learning from Diversity is the second of two books that disseminates new and systematic knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of vocational education and training (VET) in four Nordic countries.
