Life in the Pressure Cooker - School League Tables and English and Mathematics Teachers' Responses to Accountability in a Results-Driven Era

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-195

  Perryman, Jane ^a   Ball, Stephen ^a   Maguire, Meg ^b   Braun, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accountability; examination results; performance tables; policy enactment; pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858221895     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: 14678527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2011.578568     Document Type: Article

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