TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance indicators as quality assurance
T2 - The Scottish Community Education PI scheme
AU - Mcculloch, Kenneth
AU - Tett, Lyn
PY - 1996/9/1
Y1 - 1996/9/1
N2 - Examines the role of performance indicators (PIs) as a means of quality assurance. Uses, as a case study, the national scheme of performance indicators for Community Education Services in Scotland, and shows how the process of development led to a particular approach to evaluation. Considers the relationship of this scheme to other approaches to performance indicators in education contexts and develops an analytical framework. Explores the relationship between purpose, product and context, with particular reference to the ways in which practices and ideologies reflect, reproduce or subvert pre-existing, unequal relations of power.
AB - Examines the role of performance indicators (PIs) as a means of quality assurance. Uses, as a case study, the national scheme of performance indicators for Community Education Services in Scotland, and shows how the process of development led to a particular approach to evaluation. Considers the relationship of this scheme to other approaches to performance indicators in education contexts and develops an analytical framework. Explores the relationship between purpose, product and context, with particular reference to the ways in which practices and ideologies reflect, reproduce or subvert pre-existing, unequal relations of power.
KW - Education
KW - Performance
KW - Quality
KW - Scotland
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986108385&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/09684889610125823
DO - 10.1108/09684889610125823
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986108385
VL - 4
SP - 17
EP - 26
JO - Quality Assurance in Education
JF - Quality Assurance in Education
SN - 0968-4883
IS - 3
ER -
