Overview
- Fills a Gap on the Subject of School Peer Review
- Conceptualizes Peer Review within the Fields of Evaluation, Accountability and Joint Practice Development
- Presents Strong Empirical Evidence
- Contributions from Internationally Leading Academics and Practitioners
Part of the book series: Accountability and Educational Improvement (ACED)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Emergence and Growth of School Peer Review
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Supplementing the Regional or National Accountability System
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Peer Reviews in the Context of High Stakes’ Accountability. Intended and Unintended Consequences
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Peer Review in Unfamiliar National Contexts: Successes and Challenges
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Peer Review Within School Improvement Partnerships
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Participatory Evaluation Approaches to Peer Review
Keywords
- School peer review
- Peer review organisations
- School inspections
- Schools Inspectorate
- School research-engagement
- School data use
- Networked learning
- Lateral accountability for schools
- Internal accountability for schools
- School inspection systems
- School improvement
- School evaluation and accountability
- Professional accountability for schools
- School collaboration
About this book
This book explores how peer reviews are used in school improvement, accountability and education system reform. Importantly, these issues are studied through numerous international cases and new empirical evidence. This volume also identifies and describes barriers and facilitators to the development, use, sustainability and expansion of school peer review.
School peer reviews are a form of internal evaluation driven by schools themselves rather than externally imposed, such as with school inspections. Schools collaborate with other schools in networks, collect data through self-evaluation and in school review visits. They provide feedback, challenge and support to each other. Despite the increased use of school peer review in system reform and school improvement, very little research has been conducted on this model and there is a dearth of literature that looks at the phenomenon internationally. This book fills this gap and will be an invaluable source for academics in school leadership and educational evaluation and accountability, as well as those working at the level of executive leadership in school networks, NGOs and in government policy-making.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Peer Review for Educational Improvement and Accountability
Book Subtitle: Theory, Practice and Policy Implications
Editors: David Godfrey
Series Title: Accountability and Educational Improvement
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48130-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48129-2Published: 04 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48132-2Published: 04 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48130-8Published: 03 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-3320
Series E-ISSN: 2509-3339
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics