Performance Metrics as Formal Structures and through the Lens of Social Mechanisms: When Do They Work and How Do They Influence?

Autor/in	Colyvas, Jeannette A.
Titel	Performance Metrics as Formal Structures and through the Lens of Social Mechanisms: When Do They Work and How Do They Influence?
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 118 (2012) 2, S.167-197 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
DOI	10.1086/663270
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Theory Practice Relationship; Educational Environment; Accountability; Benchmarking; Best Practices; Educational Practices; Educational Improvement; Use Studies; Organizational Climate; Organizational Culture; Educational Sociology; Higher Education; Research Needs; Educational Change; Data; Academic Standards; Standard Setting; Delivery Systems; Schematic Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Verantwortung; Bildungspraxis; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Benutzerschulung; Organisationsklima; Unternehmenskultur; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Forschungsbedarf; Bildungsreform; Daten; Standardisierung; Auslieferung; Schematheorie
Abstract	Our current educational environment is subject to persistent calls for accountability, evidence-based practice, and data use for improvement, which largely take the form of performance metrics (PMs). This rapid proliferation of PMs has profoundly influenced the ways in which scholars and practitioners think about their own practices and the larger missions in which they are embedded. This article draws on research in organizational sociology and higher education to propose a framework and research agenda for analyzing the relationship between PMs and practice. I argue that PMs need to be understood as a distinctive form of data whose consequences in use relate to their role as formalized systems of abstractions and the social mechanisms through which they exert change in practice. (Contains 1 note, 2 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10