The consequences of metrics for social justice: tensions, pending issues, and questions

Petour, María Teresa Flórez; Assael, Tamara Rozas; Gysling, Jacqueline; Astorga, José Miguel Olave

doi:10.1080/03054985.2018.1500356

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“…Lack of indicators and data for underrepresented aspects is partly explained by a persistent disciplinary-divide ( Barry and Born, 2013 ; Weber et al, 2012 ), narrow interpretation of expert knowledge ( Cornell et al, 2013 ), and a lack of transparency about assumptions and uncertainties of metrics-based assessments ( Saltelli et al, 2020 ). In doing so, use of these frameworks in sustainability governance runs the risk of overlooking dynamics, trade-offs, or unintended consequences ( Flórez Petour et al, 2018 ; Lehtonen, 2015 ). Given their ‘performativity’ vìs-a-vìs sustainability action ( Hale et al, 2019 ), recognition and acknowledgement of biases and limitations with respect to understanding food systems is paramount.…”

Section: A Review Of Food Systems Framework and Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

Hebinck

Zurek

Achterbosch

et al. 2021

Global Food Security

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Growing acknowledgement that food systems require transformation, demands comprehensive sustainability assessments that can support decision-making and sustainability governance. To do so, assessment frameworks must be able to make trade-offs and synergies visible and allow for inclusive negotiation on food system outcomes relevant to diverse food system actors. This paper reviews literature and frameworks and builds on stakeholder input to present a Sustainability Compass made up of a comprehensive set of metrics for food system assessments. The Compass defines sustainability scores for four societal goals, underpinned by areas of concern. We demonstrate proof of concept of the operationalization of the approach and its metrics. The Sustainability Compass is able to generate comprehensive food system insights that enables reflexive evaluation and multi-actor negotiation for policy making.

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Section: A Review Of Food Systems Framework and Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

Hebinck

Zurek

Achterbosch

et al. 2021

Global Food Security

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“…As highlighted in the earlier review, disciplines and knowledge systems are often overlooked or ignored: Omission of particular themes and dynamics is partly explained by a persistent divide between various disciplines (Barry and Born, 2013;Weber et al, 2012), narrow interpretation of expert knowledge (Cornell et al, 2013), and a lack of transparency about assumptions and uncertainties of metrics-based assessments (Saltelli et al, 2020). In doing so, use of these frameworks in sustainability governance runs the risk of overlooking dynamics, trade-offs or unintended consequences (Flórez Petour et al, 2018;Lehtonen, 2015). Given their now vital role in sustainability governance, recognition and acknowledgment of biases and limitations with respect to understanding food systems is paramount.…”

Section: The Food System Sustainability Compassmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

Hebinck¹,

Zurek²,

Achterbosch³

et al. 2020

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The growing acknowledgement that food systems require transformation has led to a call for comprehensive sustainability assessments to support decision-making. For frameworks to serve sustainability governance, they must show the trade-offs and unintended consequences that might result from policy decisions across key goals relevant to food system actors. This paper reviews existing literature and frameworks and builds on stakeholder input to present a sustainability compass with associated metrics for food system assessments. The compass defines sustainability scores for four societal goals, underpinned by areas of concern. The operationalisation approach for assessment balances policy-usability, system complexity and comprehensiveness, while providing actionable insights. It concludes by outlining additional challenges for research to continue development of food system frameworks that support sustainability governance.

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“…In response to the low macro‐level trust documented in several studies, the Ministry of Education in Chile is currently proposing changes to the national assessment system; particularly, with respect to the frequency of SIMCE testing and consequences to schools. As Flórez Petour et al (2018) highlight, assessment reform processes have often excluded practitioner voices. This factor may contribute to teachers finding external assessment results of little value for the improvement of teaching practices.…”

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“…Prior studies examining how schools use SIMCE data have focused mostly on primary schools, lowperforming, and high-poverty schools and have documented unintended consequences, such as narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, and using selection practices to skim off the highest performing students, among others (Falabella, 2014(Falabella, , 2020Parcerisa, 2021). In those studies, teachers perceived high-stakes assessments as externally imposed, distant from what they understand as valuable and from the challenging context in which they teach (Flórez Petour et al, 2018). As low-performing schools face the threat of closure, teachers have reported high levels of stress (Pino et al, 2016).…”

Section: Standardised Assessment In Chilementioning

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Responding to external accountability in high‐performing, high‐capacity public secondary schools in Chile

Montecinos

Cortez

Zett

et al. 2022

Euro J of Education

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The qualitative study on which this article reports explored how senior leaders, mathematics and Spanish language teachers (N = 72) in four high‐performing, high‐poverty, public secondary schools in Chile enact performance‐based accountability policies related to standardised assessments. These four public schools were selected because prior to when the study was conducted all were part of the Bicentennial Schools Programme led by the Ministry of Education from 2010 to 2014. The aim of the programme was to develop effective secondary schools to serve low‐income students. A thematic analysis of data produced through individual and group interviews and observations of departmental meetings shows that the enactment of performance‐based accountability involved two dimensions of learning‐centred leadership, distributed among senior leaders and department heads. An aim shared by parents, students, teachers and senior leaders was to ensure students' access to, and completion of, studies in higher education. Attaining good scores in national standardised SIMCE tests was key to meeting the vision. Collective trust among all actors and macro level trust in standardised testing served as a resource for strong collaboration to improve instruction and learning as well as teachers' collective efficacy. The discussion focuses on school‐level practices and policy‐level decisions that create conditions for the effective use of information produced from standardised assessments. A key point supported by our findings is that successful performance in external assessments is resourced by, and fosters, trust formation in schools.

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The consequences of metrics for social justice: tensions, pending issues, and questions

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems

Responding to external accountability in high‐performing, high‐capacity public secondary schools in Chile

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