In: Évaluer. Journal international de recherche en éducation et formation, 2018, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 79-103
In the early 2000s, the Province of Ontario has implemented an ambitious system of standardized testing of pupils’ achievement to enhance the performance of its educational system. Ontario's testing policy differentiates both traditional accountability systems (hard or soft). The testing has increased the province's results and improved alignment of the curriculum. But what about teachers...
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In: Revista de Sociología de la Educación, 2017, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 502-518
This article proposes an analysis of the perceptions of teachers regarding a system of external testing of pupils’ achievements in primary schooling in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In this context, different types of external tests (reference test in 4th and 6th grade; selection test in 8th grade) must allow teachers to adjust their teaching practices. A mixed research approach...
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In: European Political Science Review, 2012, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 385-408
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In: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2001, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 184-191
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In: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2001, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 209-215
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In: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2015, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 81-96
This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process – more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed for the implosion of the accompanying court case in the Land Claims Court – to open up a space for reflection on the ambiguous nature of state bureaucracies as ambiguity-reducing machines. Tracing...
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In: Health policy, 2012, vol. 106, no. 1, p. 37-49
This paper explores leadership and governance arrangements in seven developed health systems: Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. It presents a cybernetic model of leadership and governance comprising three fundamental functions: priority setting, performance monitoring and accountability arrangements. The paper uses a structured survey to examine...
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