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This article investigates the effect of school autonomy on multi- ple measures of student achievement, combining the individual data of the students participating in the International Civics and Citizenship Survey with their results in the national high stakes standardized tests at the end of eighth grade administered by the Italian National Institute for Educational Evaluation.
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Tthe results are consistent with previous findings suggesting that the success of decentralization policies in education depends not just on formally granting more autonomy to schools; autonomy can be a prerequisite to laying out a number of institutional (outside the school) and organizational (internal to each school) changes that may lead to the improvement of student achievement.
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Angelo Paletta is Professor of Management Control Systems at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Deputy Rector position, responsible for the Finance and Social Responsibility. He was appointed by Pope Francis as a member of the Vatican Catholic Education Congregation. His main research interests include: educational management and leadership; public governance and accountability; crisis management and reorganization.
angelo paletta
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
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This page is a summary of: Improving Students’ Learning Through School Autonomy: Evidence From the International Civic and Citizenship Survey, Journal of School Choice, July 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2014.942173.
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