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School Performance After Preterm Birth
Epidemiology, 2015An increased risk of poor school performance for children born preterm has been shown in many studies, but whether this increase is attributable to preterm birth per se or to other factors associated with preterm birth has not been resolved.We used data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register, the Longitudinal Integration Database for Sickness ...
Fredrik, Ahlsson +4 more
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School Performance Measurement
The American Review of Public Administration, 2008Growing political pressure for increased efficiency in government has led many to support the use of performance measurement schemes. Such schemes are never neutral and frequently influence the allocation of resources and power. The increased use of performance measures in the public sector raises questions regarding the fairness of the measures and ...
William H. Miller +2 more
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Sustaining school performance: school contexts matter
International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2012Drawing upon empirical data from a pan-Europe wide study on successful school leadership in challenging circumstances, the paper discusses an analytical model designed as a framework of analysis to investigate the dynamic relationships between challenges in schools’ internal and external contexts and how leadership interventions mediate these and ...
QING GU, OLOF JOHANSSON
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Parallax, 2004
As anthropologist Marilyn Strathern notes in her introduction to the collection Audit Cultures, the emergence of audit and assessment procedures that we see in academic practice ‘is part of a global phenomenon. Audit regimes accompany a specific epoch in Western international affairs’.2 The different evaluative procedures found in the US GRE (Graduate ...
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As anthropologist Marilyn Strathern notes in her introduction to the collection Audit Cultures, the emergence of audit and assessment procedures that we see in academic practice ‘is part of a global phenomenon. Audit regimes accompany a specific epoch in Western international affairs’.2 The different evaluative procedures found in the US GRE (Graduate ...
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Getting Schooled on School Performances
2009Abstract Agreed: the fi eld of teaching artists is disorganized, making it hard to learn how to create effective, original education/youth/family concerts—let’s refer to them as e/y/f concerts. To reap the benefits of being a skilled e/y/f presenter, take an honest look at your offerings.
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Does Medical School Performance Predict Radiology Resident Performance?
Academic Radiology, 2002The authors performed this study to examine the relationship, if any, of a large number of measures of medical school performance with radiology residency performance.Applications of 77 radiology residents enrolled from 1991 to 2000 were reviewed. Medical school grades, dean's letter summary statements, letters of recommendation, selection to Alpha ...
Tedric D, Boyse +7 more
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Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance
Policy Studies Journal, 1996Advocates of education privatization often take two general approaches to denigrating commonplace public school monopoly service provision assignments. One general argument is that public school administrators are self‐interested rent‐seekers, which is evidenced by the ever‐enlarging bureaucracies they operate. This argument has been roundly criticized
Christopher A. Simon +1 more
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School discipline, school uniforms and academic performance
International Journal of Educational Management, 2016Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of school discipline in achieving academic performance. The study aims to clarify the role of permissive vis-à-vis authoritative teaching styles with an overarching hypothesis that better discipline leads to better academic performance.
Chris Baumann, Hana Krskova
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SCHOOLS, DISCRIMINATION AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
International Journal of Human Sciences Research, 2023José Carlos Teixeira Pistilli +1 more
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School Performance: The Pediatrician's Role
Clinical Pediatrics, 2008When children begin having difficulties in school, the first stop for parents is often the pediatrician's office. Although school performance problems may seem outside the realm of routine primary health care, there are many important roles that the primary care provider may play.
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