Evaluating the implementation of the new service regulations for teachers – Case studies.

With the beginning of the school year 2001/02, a new legislation regulating the work of teachers (LDG) has become operative, constituting a profound change in Austrian service regulations. LDG defines an overall temporal duty of teachers on a yearly basis and accounts for the fact that there are a lot of additional tasks for teachers additional to classroom teaching. On behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Education, 18 case-studies (one elementary school and one secondary school per province) have been produced which document and analyse the process and results of implementing LDG. Data was collected and qualitatively analysed by semi-structured interviews, field notes and document analysis. The final report will contain eighteen individual case studies and one cross-case analysis. It will be the basis for education policy recommendations for the further development of service regulations and possible collateral measures.