Rosalind Levacic
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalind Levacic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalind |
| FAMILY NAME | Levacic |
| SIGNATURE | LEVACIC R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using quantitative data in World Bank per-student funding reform projects: Data, designs and dilemmas in transition countries
Since the late 1980s, education systems have increasingly moved to allocating funding for general education by means of a per-student formula. The trend started with developed economies and moved to transition and developing economies, where the World Bank has promoted the adoption of per-student funding (PSF). But promoting a particular reform, such as PSF, by including it in a package of sector-specific development projects funded by World Bank…
Secondary modern schools: Are their pupils disadvantaged
There are still 10 English local educational authorities (LEAs) that are wholly selective and a further 10 with some grammar and secondary modern schools. This article examines the academic performance of pupils in secondary modern schools and the funding of these schools using national data sets matching pupils' performance at Key Stage 2 and General Certificate of Education (GCSE) as well as data on funding from Section 52 statements. Students …
Raising School Performance in the League Tables (Part 2): Barriers to responsiveness in three disadvantaged schools
This is the second of two articles drawing from the Economic and Social Research Council‐funded Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools study. The first article reported quantitative data concerning the relationship between the rate of school improvement and degree of social disadvantage amongst school student communities. This article examines qualitative data from three case‐study schools in order to illuminate the barriers to responsiveness…
Raising School Performance in the League Tables (Part 1): Disentangling the effects of social disadvantage
The article uses data from a longitudinal study of over 300 secondary schools to investigate differences in the rate at which schools improved General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination results over the period 1991‐98 and the reasons for such differences. Two variables found to have the most impact on examination improvement were a low concentration of social disadvantage relative to other local schools and starting from a low …
The performance of grant maintained schools in England: An experiment in autonomy
The paper examines the recruitment and examination performance from 1991 to 1996 of Grant Maintained (GM) compared to Local Education Authority (LEA) schools using data for almost 300 non-selective schools in 6 LEAs assembled as part of the Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools (ICOSS) study. The data include pupil rolls, examination results, free school meals and budgets. On a straight forward comparison of the proportion of Year 11 student…
Local management of schools in England: Results after six years
This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of six years of local management of schools in England. Introduced into all parts of the UK except Scotland, as one of the key measures in the Education Reform Act (1988), local management of schools is a particular and limited version of the school‐based management (SBM) model. The paper starts by considering the theoretical basis for the links between SBM and local management on the one hand, and im…
Local management of schools as an organizational form: Theory and application
This paper sets out to understand local management of schools (LMS) in terms of the theory of organizational form. It is argued that the 1988 Education Reform Act was designed to change the LEA from a unitary form of organizational strucure to a multidivisional (M‐form), though the regulatory role of the LEA required in an M‐form organization was left underdeveloped. Without a quality assurance function for a regulatory body decentralized managem…
Centralizing in order to decentralize? DES scrutiny and approval of LMS schemes
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRosalind Levačić11. We wish to thank all those authorities who supplied us with LMS scheme documents and, in particular, those who sent us copies of their correspondence with the DES or internal documentation on LMS scheme amendments 1. We wish to thank all those authorities who supplied us with LMS scheme documents and, in particular, those who sent us copies of their correspondence with the DES or inte…
Economic Policy-Making
Raising School Performance in the League Tables (Part 1): Disentangling the effects of social disadvantage
The article uses data from a longitudinal study of over 300 secondary schools to investigate differences in the rate at which schools improved General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination results over the period 1991‐98 and the reasons for such differences. Two variables found to have the most impact on examination improvement were a low concentration of social disadvantage relative to other local schools and starting from a low …
Secondary modern schools: Are their pupils disadvantaged
There are still 10 English local educational authorities (LEAs) that are wholly selective and a further 10 with some grammar and secondary modern schools. This article examines the academic performance of pupils in secondary modern schools and the funding of these schools using national data sets matching pupils' performance at Key Stage 2 and General Certificate of Education (GCSE) as well as data on funding from Section 52 statements. Students …
Raising School Performance in the League Tables (Part 2): Barriers to responsiveness in three disadvantaged schools
This is the second of two articles drawing from the Economic and Social Research Council‐funded Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools study. The first article reported quantitative data concerning the relationship between the rate of school improvement and degree of social disadvantage amongst school student communities. This article examines qualitative data from three case‐study schools in order to illuminate the barriers to responsiveness…
The performance of grant maintained schools in England: An experiment in autonomy
The paper examines the recruitment and examination performance from 1991 to 1996 of Grant Maintained (GM) compared to Local Education Authority (LEA) schools using data for almost 300 non-selective schools in 6 LEAs assembled as part of the Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools (ICOSS) study. The data include pupil rolls, examination results, free school meals and budgets. On a straight forward comparison of the proportion of Year 11 student…
Local management of schools in England: Results after six years
This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of six years of local management of schools in England. Introduced into all parts of the UK except Scotland, as one of the key measures in the Education Reform Act (1988), local management of schools is a particular and limited version of the school‐based management (SBM) model. The paper starts by considering the theoretical basis for the links between SBM and local management on the one hand, and im…
Local management of schools as an organizational form: Theory and application
This paper sets out to understand local management of schools (LMS) in terms of the theory of organizational form. It is argued that the 1988 Education Reform Act was designed to change the LEA from a unitary form of organizational strucure to a multidivisional (M‐form), though the regulatory role of the LEA required in an M‐form organization was left underdeveloped. Without a quality assurance function for a regulatory body decentralized managem…
Using quantitative data in World Bank per-student funding reform projects: Data, designs and dilemmas in transition countries
Since the late 1980s, education systems have increasingly moved to allocating funding for general education by means of a per-student formula. The trend started with developed economies and moved to transition and developing economies, where the World Bank has promoted the adoption of per-student funding (PSF). But promoting a particular reform, such as PSF, by including it in a package of sector-specific development projects funded by World Bank…
Centralizing in order to decentralize? DES scrutiny and approval of LMS schemes
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRosalind Levačić11. We wish to thank all those authorities who supplied us with LMS scheme documents and, in particular, those who sent us copies of their correspondence with the DES or internal documentation on LMS scheme amendments 1. We wish to thank all those authorities who supplied us with LMS scheme documents and, in particular, those who sent us copies of their correspondence with the DES or inte…
Economic Policy-Making
Economic Policy-Making
Centralizing in order to decentralize? DES scrutiny and approval of LMS schemes
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRosalind Levačić11. We wish to thank all those authorities who supplied us with LMS scheme documents and, in particular, those who sent us copies of their correspondence with the DES or internal documentation on LMS scheme amendments 1. We wish to thank all those authorities who supplied us with LMS scheme documents and, in particular, those who sent us copies of their correspondence with the DES or inte…
Local management of schools as an organizational form: Theory and application
This paper sets out to understand local management of schools (LMS) in terms of the theory of organizational form. It is argued that the 1988 Education Reform Act was designed to change the LEA from a unitary form of organizational strucure to a multidivisional (M‐form), though the regulatory role of the LEA required in an M‐form organization was left underdeveloped. Without a quality assurance function for a regulatory body decentralized managem…
Local management of schools in England: Results after six years
This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of six years of local management of schools in England. Introduced into all parts of the UK except Scotland, as one of the key measures in the Education Reform Act (1988), local management of schools is a particular and limited version of the school‐based management (SBM) model. The paper starts by considering the theoretical basis for the links between SBM and local management on the one hand, and im…
The performance of grant maintained schools in England: An experiment in autonomy
The paper examines the recruitment and examination performance from 1991 to 1996 of Grant Maintained (GM) compared to Local Education Authority (LEA) schools using data for almost 300 non-selective schools in 6 LEAs assembled as part of the Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools (ICOSS) study. The data include pupil rolls, examination results, free school meals and budgets. On a straight forward comparison of the proportion of Year 11 student…
Raising School Performance in the League Tables (Part 2): Barriers to responsiveness in three disadvantaged schools
This is the second of two articles drawing from the Economic and Social Research Council‐funded Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools study. The first article reported quantitative data concerning the relationship between the rate of school improvement and degree of social disadvantage amongst school student communities. This article examines qualitative data from three case‐study schools in order to illuminate the barriers to responsiveness…
Raising School Performance in the League Tables (Part 1): Disentangling the effects of social disadvantage
The article uses data from a longitudinal study of over 300 secondary schools to investigate differences in the rate at which schools improved General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination results over the period 1991‐98 and the reasons for such differences. Two variables found to have the most impact on examination improvement were a low concentration of social disadvantage relative to other local schools and starting from a low …
Secondary modern schools: Are their pupils disadvantaged
There are still 10 English local educational authorities (LEAs) that are wholly selective and a further 10 with some grammar and secondary modern schools. This article examines the academic performance of pupils in secondary modern schools and the funding of these schools using national data sets matching pupils' performance at Key Stage 2 and General Certificate of Education (GCSE) as well as data on funding from Section 52 statements. Students …
Using quantitative data in World Bank per-student funding reform projects: Data, designs and dilemmas in transition countries
Since the late 1980s, education systems have increasingly moved to allocating funding for general education by means of a per-student formula. The trend started with developed economies and moved to transition and developing economies, where the World Bank has promoted the adoption of per-student funding (PSF). But promoting a particular reform, such as PSF, by including it in a package of sector-specific development projects funded by World Bank…
Political science (8 works) · School Choice and Performance (7 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Disadvantaged (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works)