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Data for Accountability in Education

Global Trends in School Reform

AvGita Steiner-Khamsi,Patricia Bromley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This timely book investigates the emergence of data-for-accountability as a governing tool in education. Five leading scholars explore its evolution over time and across regions, highlighting how datafication in education benefits some and disadvantages others.The authors trace the origins of using data for accountability in education back to the 1990s, demonstrating how various actors have adapted and tailored this trend, thus diversifying its use as a governance tool. They examine the rise of student testing, performance-based evaluation and governance by numbers to reveal the political, economic and pedagogical uses and abuses of data. Drawing on a variety of methods, theories and disciplines, including a combination of macro-, meso-, and microlevel analyses, the authors illustrate how these instruments have taken root globally, why they persist and how their meanings and effects vary across policy contexts.Data for Accountability in Education is a crucial resource for scholars, students and practitioners in comparative education and international education policy, as well as those engaged with the sociology of education. Policymakers working with educational data will also find the book a valuable reference point for understanding accountability in education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-17
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:NORRAG Series on International Education and Development
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035349852

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Mer om författaren

Gita Steiner-Khamsi, William H. Kilpatrick Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, Patricia Bromley, Associate Professor, Stanford University, USA, Rie Kijima, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada, Kerstin Martens, Professor, University of Bremen, Germany and Antoni Verger, Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

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‘Globalisation is not dead! It develops through big data, measures, ranking and the making of global fields such as education promoted by international organisations. This major book, based upon long term research, brilliantly brings to the fore the globalisation of education data, the instrumentation of data-driven governance tools by policy entrepreneurs and what is at stake for accountability and control. « Governance by numbers 2.0 » is invading the world: this essential book explains why and for whom. Welcome to the field of global comparative education studies!’

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface 1 Understanding global reform trends and their variedimpacts: making a case for complementary researchperspectives and agendasGita Steiner-Khamsi, Patricia Bromley, Rie Kijima,Kerstin Martens and Antoni Verger2 Accountability without responsibility? The era ofdatafication in education reformPatricia Bromley3 Pathways of performance-based accountability: aninstrumentation perspective on educational reformsAntoni Verger4 The layers of dataficationGita Steiner-Khamsi5 Global trends in assessment reformsRie Kijima6 Accountability from above: examining internationalorganisations in education policyKerstin MartensReferences