International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review

Autor/in	WoBmann, Ludger
Titel	International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 82 (2007) 2-3, S.473-497 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/01619560701313176
Schlagwörter	Competition; Accountability; Institutional Autonomy; Achievement Tests; Academic Achievement; Private Schools; Public Support; School Choice; Professional Autonomy; Parent School Relationship; Context Effect; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wettkampf; Verantwortung; Institutionelle Autonomie; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Schulleistung; Private school; Privatschule; Öffentliche Förderung; Öffentliche Trägerschaft; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Berufsfreiheit; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Ausland
Abstract	This article reviews evidence from four international student achievement tests on the effects on student performance of competition from privately managed schools, schools' freedom to make autonomous decisions, and accountability introduced by external exit exams. The multivariate cross-country regressions are performed at the level of individual students and control for extensive family and school background information. The results reveal that students perform better in countries with more competition from privately managed schools, in countries where public funding ensures that all families can make choices, in schools that have freedom to make autonomous process and personnel decisions, where teachers have both freedom and incentives to select appropriate teaching methods, where parents take interest in teaching matters, and where school autonomy is combined with external exams that provide an information basis allowing for well-informed choices and holding schools accountable for their autonomous decisions. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10