Teachers, as frontline providers of education, are increasingly targets of accountability
reforms. Such reforms often narrowly define 'teacher quality'around performative terms. Past …

There has been a great insistence that the installation of teacher performance standards
would be one of the main means to improve educational quality. In 2015, the Chilean …

The purpose of this commentary is to push the boundaries (real and perceived) of how we
think about teacher accountability, education and the purpose of schooling in contemporary …

Drawing upon Foucault's governmentality, this study sets out to explore how enterprising
subjects constituted through self-monitoring are fashioned in the epoch of performance …

Schooling in Australia has become subject to increased processes of data-based
governance. This article draws upon the insights of an experienced teacher,'Meriam', who …

Teacher registration is increasingly utilised as a governance mechanism to audit teachers'
work and drive professional practice. There is limited and mixed empirical evidence …

In this paper, we draw on policy sociology and democratic theory to illustrate how evidence-
based practice not only limits teachers' capacities to exercise professional discretion and …

The rise of evaluation and data in education and education policy is a trend manifesting
across a wide variety of policy contexts, holding in its grip national and global policies, with …

Using a newly created teacher evaluation instrument, Inter-rater Reliability (IRR) analyses
were conducted on four teacher videos as a means to establish instrument reliability. Raters …

This chapter discusses Finnish quality evaluation in comprehensive education, recognising
that it frequently differs from that used by the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) in …