Session Information
23 SES 01B, Fabricating Quality in European Education: Teacher Professionalism, Quality Assurance Regimes and Performance: a comparative study (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 23 SES 2B
Time:
2008-09-10
09:15-10:45
Room:
B1 114
Chair:
Martin Lawn
Discussant:
Jennifer Teresa Ozga
Contribution
This paper explores some of the design issues raised in designing an international survey, not so much from a ‘technical’ point of view but in relation to the different ways of thinking about QAE and teachers that exist in different contexts. The task of designing a common core of the survey questionnaire to allow for international comparison was a complex one, and some of the lessons learned from it are discussed here. These often raised ‘translation’ issues revealed significant differences in the focus and implementation of QAE across the different countries in the study, while conceptual understandings of words such as ‘evaluation’ vary, as do ideas about accountability. Different versions of accountability were found to be present across the systems, producing considerable dilemmas about the phrasing of questions about professional ethics, trust and competition that were challenging to the project team. We ask to what extent it is possible to derive measures for comparison of teachers’ views across very different systems of QAE, and reflect on the ways in which the pressure for conformity in our research design paralleled processes of data collection in the very tests of comparative performance –such as PISA-that we were researching.
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