Abstract
Despite ten years of direct regulation, our study of Danish lower secondary schools shows that they do not provide online access to the GPA for individual public schools (N=1,592). Using Lipsky’s gate-keeping theory, we investigate the lack of data provision as indicator not only of professionals’ being reluctant to accept imposed standards and control from central level (top-down) but also avoiding demands from parents (and children) on transparency and accountability (bottom-up). The lack of accessibility of grades on the web can thus be seen as a classical gate-keeping mechanism evolving in the age of information society where expectations of end-of-gatekeeping by providing accessibility and transparency using information systems has been outnumbered by classical forces of gate-keeping.
Original language | English |
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Publication date | 2012 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Event | EGPA Annual Conference 2012 - University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Duration: 5 Sept 2012 → 8 Sept 2012 Conference number: 34 http://egpa-conference2012.org/ |
Conference
Conference | EGPA Annual Conference 2012 |
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Number | 34 |
Location | University of Bergen |
Country/Territory | Norway |
City | Bergen |
Period | 05/09/2012 → 08/09/2012 |
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