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Madrigal, Alejandro, III; Epstein, Eliza – Texas Education Review, 2021
This brief is organized into four (4) main sections. We first discuss the inadequacy, inefficacy, and bias of standardized, high-stakes assessments. These assessments do not deliver on promises made by proponents and that they, in fact, do long-term harm to teachers and students, with a disproportionate negative impact on communities of color. The…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Testing Problems
Fonseca, Susana; Lobo Fernandes, Joana – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Providing higher education institutions (HEIs) with a tool for self-assessing their social responsibility (SR) that generates the information and knowledge necessary to a strategic approach to adopting the Green Paper recommendations about the SR of HEIs. Setting out the collaborative policy development process to construct the tool…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Sustainability, Alignment (Education), Pilot Projects
Saltz, Jeffrey; Skirpan, Michael; Fiesler, Casey; Gorelick, Micha; Yeh, Tom; Heckman, Robert; Dewar, Neil; Beard, Nathan – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
This article establishes and addresses opportunities for ethics integration into Machine-learning (ML) courses. Following a survey of the history of computing ethics and the current need for ethical consideration within ML, we consider the current state of ML ethics education via an exploratory analysis of course syllabi in computing programs. The…
Descriptors: Ethics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Course Descriptions, Computer Science Education
Pannell, Summer; Sergi-McBrayer, Juliann – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2020
This pilot study investigated the relationship between principal preparation program (PPP) field experience structure and principal instructional leadership preparedness as measured by state certification exams and state-wide student assessment results. The researchers sought to determine if a statistically significant difference existed in…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Academic Achievement, Scores
Wynne, Carlise Womack; Satchwell, Deryck – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
This article outlines a case study of creating a system of quality assurance in Belize while also building the capacity of teaching staff in order to support the process of establishing quality standards in tertiary education. This case study outlines the process of establishing the first quality assurance system in the nation's history as well as…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Case Studies, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Porosky Hamlin, Julie – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Ralph Wolff is founder and president of The Quality Assurance Commons (https:// theqacommons.org) and an independent policy consultant focusing on accreditation and quality assurance processes in the United States and internationally. He served as president of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Profiles, Accreditation (Institutions), Change Strategies
Cleveland, Richard E.; Hartline, Julie – Journal of School Counseling, 2017
This article describes initial efforts to pilot an evaluation instrument for school counselors. The pilot was a collaboration led by the state's school counselor association involving a state department of education (DOE), local school districts, and university faculty members. The article begins with a brief overview of historical and contextual…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, Counselor Evaluation, Pilot Projects
Marion, Scott; Leather, Paul – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
This paper presents an overview of New Hampshire's efforts to implement a pilot accountability system designed to support deeper learning for students and powerful organization change for schools and districts. The accountability pilot, referred to as Performance Assessment of Competency Education or PACE, is grounded in a competencybased…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Performance Based Assessment
Piper, Benjamin; Destefano, Joseph; Kinyanjui, Esther M.; Ong'ele, Salome – Journal of Educational Change, 2018
Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, which has a long history of particularly ineffective implementation after successful pilot programs, the Tusome national literacy program--which receives funding from the United States Agency for International Development--is a national-level scale-up of previous…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Benchmarking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Crosson, Pat; Orcutt, Bonnie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
This article describes efforts in Massachusetts and the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment (MSC) to develop a statewide system for learning outcomes assessment that does not rely on standardized testing and that is designed to transcend the traditional tensions and boundaries between campus-based formative and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Formative Evaluation, Accountability
Koretz, Daniel; Jennings, Jennifer L.; Ng, Hui Leng; Yu, Carol; Braslow, David; Langi, Meredith – Educational Assessment, 2016
Test-based accountability often produces score inflation. Most studies have evaluated inflation by comparing trends on a high-stakes test and a lower stakes audit test. However, Koretz and Beguin (2010) noted weaknesses of audit tests and suggested self-monitoring assessments (SMAs), which incorporate audit items into high-stakes tests. This…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Scores, Grade Inflation, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Boehm, Frédéric; Caprio, Temby – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
Corruption is at the core of weak governance. In the education sector, corruption is a threat to the quality of and access to education. Although the diagnosis is straightforward, effective reforms are more difficult to implement. The principles of good governance (transparency, participation, accountability, and integrity) provide us guidance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Bulletin Boards, Accountability
Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2016
Ninety-five percent of students at Redwood City's Hoover School, in San Mateo County, California, come from low-income and working-class Latino families, and nearly all start school as English language learners (ELLs). The elementary and middle school piloted the Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) program in 2009 in hopes of raising reading…
Descriptors: Accountability, Common Core State Standards, College Preparation, Low Income Students
Cosner, Shelby; Kimball, Steven M.; Barkowski, Elizabeth; Carl, Bradley; Jones, Curtis – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
Policy makers at the federal level have embraced an educator effectiveness agenda, which in turn has driven many states across the country to rapidly develop and implement new and more complex teacher evaluation systems. It is increasingly clear that the success of these nascent teacher evaluation systems partly depends on the will, skill, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Role, Principals, Organizational Change
Sosibo, Lungi – Africa Education Review, 2013
In the United States and elsewhere, the term 'accountability' is a buzzword in the discourses on initial teacher preparation. Various accountability measures which are believed to reinforce the integrity and effectiveness of initial teacher education programmes and to serve as evidence of the pre-service teachers' competences are in place in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Preservice Teacher Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Teacher Evaluation