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Record W1963872717 · doi:10.1108/eum0000000005495

Economic rationalism and education reforms in developed countries

2001· article· en· W1963872717 on OpenAlexaffabout
Y. L. Jack Lam

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Educational Administration · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSchool Choice and Performance
Canadian institutionsBrandon University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConvictionAccountabilityIdeologyProductivityHigher educationEconomicsPolitical sciencePublic administrationSociologyEconomic growthLaw

Abstract

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In contrast to those of the earlier decades, recent school changes and educational reforms in developed countries are not governed by ideologies originated from specific social or national contexts, attempting to address unique specific interests or educational concerns. Rather, the universal “economic rationalism” is contended to be the primary driving force shaping the nature and spirit of the global educational reforms. In support of this conviction, reform literature prepared by scholars from America, Canada, England and Australia is examined. By identifying some common threads extracted from diverse articles, a general model is woven, linking rationalistic principles such as efficiency, productivity and accountability with various formats of reforms. Specific objectives include cost‐reduction, higher rate of social return, more reliable and comparable outcome assessment and greater market (public) control. Public educators should realign themselves to this paradigm shift if they are to retain their professional leadership in a more turbulent environment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.102

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.012
Scholarly communication0.0080.003
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.338 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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