Globally, there is a demand for basing education policy decisions and practice on solid evidence. While the same applies in Iceland, some have claimed that there is a dearth of evidence-based publications targeted at education. This article considers ...

The main purpose of this research is to analyse school principals’ and teachers’ attitudes towards external school evaluation in Iceland, in particular, the ways in which they consider the evaluation affects their schools’ internal evaluation and drives ...

The paper proposes three educational spaces, an operational space, an interactive space and a comparative space. The focus is on the interactive space in order to shed light on various modes of Nordic educational cooperation, with a brief discussion ...

Meginmarkmið þeirrar rannsóknar sem hér er kynnt er að svara spurningunni: Hver eru sérkenni námsferils og viðhorfa nemenda sem velja starfsnám í framhaldsskóla? Hér verða dregnar saman helstu niðurstöður hennar en hún náði til 2750 nemenda í öllum ...

Past findings concerning whether and how feedback from external evaluations benefit the improvement of schools are inconsistent and sometimes even conflicting, which highlights the contextual nature of such evaluations and underscores the importance ...