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Record W2025523722 · doi:10.1177/1741143207084059

Align, Don't Necessarily Follow

2007· article· en· W2025523722 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEducational Management Administration & Leadership · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPublic Policy and Administration Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
KeywordsLegitimacyGermanConceptualizationQuality (philosophy)Face (sociological concept)New public managementPolitical scienceVocational educationPublic administrationGlobalizationDiscourse analysisSociologyPublic relationsPedagogyPublic sectorSocial sciencePoliticsLaw

Abstract

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In the face of globalization, states around the world have tried to regain legitimacy by using a policy framework known as new public management (NPM). In education, it promises to improve quality and competitiveness, by means of increasing control over educational institutions, implementing managerial techniques and submitting educational institutions to increased competitiveness. This article presents evidence from an exploratory study comparing senior college administrators' attitudes in the Canadian province of British Columbia and those of vocational school administrators in two German subjurisdictions toward NPM. Questions addressed include: (1) how NPM-related measures were perceived by those administrators; and (2) how differences in the way reform discourses are framed in the different subjurisdictions impact the administrators' attitudes towards NPM. Findings show that the level of agreement on different aspects of NPM was comparatively similar across countries and subjurisdictions. Correlational analysis, however, revealed differences between the administrators' semantic constructions of the reform policy. Interpretive analysis indicated that semantic constructions were linked to the varying policy discourses of the subjurisdictions. The article concludes that discourse is an important aspect when introducing NPM in educational institutions, since it lays the groundwork for the conceptualization of future policy discourses.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.945
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.165
GPT teacher head0.420
Teacher spread0.255 · 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