This paper presents an overview of studies into effects and side effects of control
mechanisms in education. We focus on effects and side effects of inspection visits and public …

Die erste Auflage des Handbuchs Neue Steuerung im Schulsystem ist 2010 erschienen und
freundlich aufgenommen worden. Eine Neuauflage, die den dynamischen Entwicklungen in …

School inspection is used by most European education systems as a major instrument for
controlling and promoting the quality of schools. Surprisingly, there is little research …

The effects of school inspections on school improvement have been investigated only to a
limited degree. The investigation reported on in this article is meant to expand our …

This article describes a theory about the ambition of most Inspectorates to realise 'school
improvement through inspection'. Literature about a number of direct and indirect …

In this article, different inspection models are compared in terms of their impact on school
improvement and the mechanisms each of these models generates to have such an impact …

'Steuerung im Bildungssystem'ist zu einem Schlüsselbegriff geworden, der in dieser
Einführung in seiner Relation zur Schulentwicklung dargestellt und erklärt wird. Beide …

This article examines how New Zealand's Education Review Office (ERO) and England's
Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) attempt to construct school failure as the clear …

Since the late 1990s, broad discussions on education and educational quality have given
impetus to the implementation of many new measures aimed at the improvement of schools …

This article investigates the effect of Dutch primary school inspections on test scores. These
inspections are assessments of the educational quality of schools. The authors use two …