Using External Accountability Mandates to Create Internal Change

Autor/inn/en	Petrides, Lisa A.; McClelland, Sara I.; Nodine, Thad R.
Titel	Using External Accountability Mandates to Create Internal Change
Quelle	In: Planning for Higher Education, 33 (2004) 1, S.44-50 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0736-0983
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Performance Based Assessment; State Aid; Academic Persistence; Outcomes of Education; Educational Environment; Accountability; Community Colleges; Institutional Research; Educational Change; Resistance to Change; Employee Attitudes; Self Evaluation (Groups); College Outcomes Assessment; Organizational Effectiveness; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Leistungsermittlung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Verantwortung; Community college; Community College; Institutionelle Forschung; Bildungsreform; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Self evaluation; Group; Groups; Selbstevaluation; Gruppe (Soz); Unternehmenserfolg; Kalifornien
Abstract	In light of a new state-mandated performance-based funding mechanism for community colleges in California, this article discusses how one district sought to implement new internal evaluation procedures to improve student outcomes in line with systemwide goals outlined in the performance-based funding. These efforts introduced an evaluative environment on campus that reinforced self-serving behaviors among individuals--not an uncommon reaction to perceived external threats to capability and competence. This research concludes that in a climate of external accountability and performance mandates, an institution's ability to understand and mitigate the need for individuals to take on protective or defensive behaviors in response to external demands for accountability becomes increasingly important in helping the organization to substantially improve its ability to use data and information to bring about positive change. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10