Is ofsted helpful?

An Inspector Calls Ofsted and its Effect on School Standards

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 97-118

  Fitz Gibbon, Carol T ^a   Stephenson Forster, Nicola J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051725394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203761236-13     Document Type: Chapter

References (21)

1. Bryan, C (1995) Inspection, in IMAC Research (ed) Education and Training Statistics, Statistics Users’ Council
2. Cronbach, LJ and Meehl, PE (1955) Construct validity in psychological tests, Psychological Bulletin, 52, May, pp 281-302
3. Cronbach, LJ and Meehl, PE (1955) ‘Construct validity in psychological tests’, Psychological Bulletin, 52, May, pp 281-302
4. Fitz-Gibbon, CT (1995) Ofsted, schmofsted, in School Inspection, ed T Brighouse and T Moon, Pitman Publishing, London
5. Fitz-Gibbon, CT (1996) Monitoring Education: Indicators, Quality and Effectiveness, Cassell, London and New York
6. Fitz-Gibbon, CT and Clark, KS (1982) Time variables in classroom research: A study of eight urban secondary school mathematics classes, British Journal of Educational Psychology, 52, 301-16
7. Fitz-Gibbon, CT and Vincent, LS (1994) Candidates’ performance in science and mathematics at A-level, School Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
8. Gray, J and Hannon, V (1986) HMI interpretation of schools’ examination results, Journal of Educational Policy, 1, 23-33
9. Gray, J and Wilcox, B (1995) The methodologies of inspection: Issues and dilemmas, in School Inspection, eds T Brighouse and B Moon, Pitman Publisher, London
10. Hinkley, T and Seddon, J (1996) The Deming approach to school improvement, P Earley, B Fidler and J Ouston in Improvement through Inspection? Complementary approaches to school development, David Fulton Publishers Ltd, pp 71-93, London
11. Hogg, GW (1990) Great performance indicators of the past, ed C T Fitz-Gibbon in Performance Indicators, Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon, Philadelphia
12. Kelly, A (1976) A study ofthe comparability of external examinations in different subjects, Research in Education, 16, 50-63
13. McKennell, AC (1970) Attitude Scale Construction, in eds O'Muirchearthaigh and Payne, The Analysis of Survey Data. 1: Exploring data structures, Wiley, Chichester
14. Medley, DM and Mitzel, HE (1963) Measuring classroom behavior by systematic observation in Handbook of Research on Teaching, ed NL Gabe, Rand McNally, Chicago
15. Neave, H (1992) The Deming Dimension, SPC press, Knoxville, Tennessee
16. Ofsted (1995) Frameworkfor the Inspection of Schools, HMSO, London
17. Ouston, J, Fidler, B and Earley, P (1996) Secondary schools' responses to Ofsted: Improvement through inspection? in Ofsted Inspections: The Early Experience eds J Ouston, P Earley and B Fidler, pp 110-25, David Fulton Publishers Ltd, London
18. Richards, CE (1988) A typology of educational monitoring systems, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 10, 106-16
19. Rutter, M, Maughan, B, Mortimer, P and Ousten, J (1979) Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and their Effects on Children, Open Books, London
20. Taberer, R (1995) Parents' perceptions of Ofsted, National Foundation for Educational Research
21. Winer, BJ, 1971 Statistical Principles in Experimental Design, 2nd edn, McGraw-Hill London and New York