Distributions of external control scores differ across school-function domains, with curriculum skewing toward internal control¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1–r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2024: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Box plots show the assessment distribution skews high (median around 0.50 versus mean 0.61), while curriculum has the lowest median (0.15 versus mean 0.31), indicating most countries' principals report substantial internal control over curriculum. → Kim 2019

Evidence¶

Kim 2019¶

Kim, T. & Yun, J. T. (2019). Logics of accountability: Cross-national patterns in school-level controls. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27(119). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4597

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Box-plot analysis of country-average external control scores in the TALIS 2013 data. The article reports "the median and mean are quite far apart with the median (0.15) set at half the value of the mean (0.31)" for curriculum, and that the assessment distribution is non-normal and skews high.

"The lowest median was in curriculum, which shows half of the countries have their average external control scores below 0.15."

Kim 2019 (2)¶

Kim, T. & Yun, J. T. (2019). Logics of accountability: Cross-national patterns in school-level controls. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27(119). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4597

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Same box-plot analysis of the four domains: HR shows the largest range (0–1) of country agreement on external control, while curriculum shows the smallest range with outliers Abu Dhabi, Cyprus, and Japan reporting very high external curricular control.

"In terms of range, HR shows the largest range (0–1), which suggests that countries’ levels of agreement with external control in HR have the most extreme values across countries."

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