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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"accountability pressures"”.
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Collaborative Autobiography: A Vehicle for Administrator Reflection on Multiple Accountability Pressures
… on five administrators’ perceptions of multiple accountability pressures. The administrators used collaborative autobiography to address accountability pressures within the context of their personal and professional lives. This included reflective writing from the administrators on their …
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Aversive Discrimination in the Employment Interview: the Effects of Organizational Policies and Accountability Pressures
… would have to explain their ratings verbally (accountability). As expected following aversive racism theory, participants rated the gay candidate less positively than the non-gay candidate despite reporting less heterosexist attitudes. Contrary to hypotheses, the mitigating situational factors …
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The development and persistence of normative standards in group performance
… was predicted. Jurors were placed under accountability pressures on one of the two last cases. Analysis of amounts and rates of information processed indicated groups' poor information processing. A simulation traces the deficit to constraints due to the groups' slowest members. Also, …
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A Qualitative Examination of Factors Influencing Assistant Principal Motivation to Pursue a Principalship in an Era of Accountability
… organizations. The study also found that accountability pressures of Achieve NJ and No Child Left Behind influence the perception of the school principal role and limit the attractiveness of the position among career assistant principals. The study also found that assistant principals …
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Managing performance through achievement impact presentations
… students continue to be left behind. Increased accountability pressures require that district leaders seek ways to monitor achievement and organize systems that promote progress, improvement, and success. Although the literature is rich with information about the key factors that influence …
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Navigating Social-emotional Experiences for Readers: Stories of Two High-performing Urban Elementary Teachers
… of Educational Progress, 2017). Due to accountability pressures and high-stakes testing, low-performing urban schools often take measures such as narrowing the curriculum (Rentner et al., 2006), relying on skills-based instruction (Hollins, 2017; Kohn, 2011), and test-focused instruction …
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Examination of the Professional Development and District Support Needed for Leadership Success from the Perspective of Middle School Principals in Low-Performing Urban Schools
… urban middle schools operate in complex, high-accountability environments characterized by diverse student populations, elevated expectations, and high leadership turnover rates. Although principals play a critical role in school improvement, limited research has examined how they experience …
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Understanding the Factors that Influence the Grouping and Assignment of Students to Elementary Classrooms
… played a role in these decisions. Perceived accountability pressures also influenced the degree to which educators focused upon student achievement data when forming classrooms. Inhabited institutions theory is utilized to understand how institutional logics may influence and explain varying …
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Performance Feedback: How Structure, Culture, and Agency Affects Feedback
… teacher capacity to satisfy these mandates. Accountability mandates promise to improve students’ academic performance but they have lacked professional development that would provide the support teachers and principals need to achieve success. Feedback is arguably a valuable mechanism to …
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Exploring, Examining, and Explaining How Participatory Governance Adds Value to Saudi Foundations’ Philanthropic Strategy
… fundraising imperatives, competition forces, and accountability pressures, enables them to invest in long-term, high-risk, multi-level experiments to deal with the increasingly complex societal problems. This flexibility, coupled with the growing role philanthropy plays in promoting social welfare …
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The Assessment of Tennessee Community College Roles in Business Incubator Development as Perceived by Administrators and Tenants.
<p>As accountability pressures have increased on community colleges, they have been challenged to demonstrate their value to the communities they serve. One role commonly included in community colleges' mission statements in Tennessee and nationally is support of local economic development. The …
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Schools deciding the purpose of education: Policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform
… in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform Javiera Marfán Sánchez New shared challenges across the globe are pressing educational systems towards pursuing an expansion in the range of goals to pursue, revaluing the social and personal development purposes of education. …
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An Examination of the Effects of Classroom Structure on Third Graders' Reading and Mathematics Achievement
… of school leaders to meet the established accountability standards is on the rise in the K-12 educational system. The challenge becomes compounded in Texas when students enter third grade and take the state standardized test for the first time. Elementary school teachers' demand to become …