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Can Early Childhood Educators Really Be Accountable?

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Clyde, Margaret – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1980

Critically examines the arguments of Leon Lessinger for teacher accountability and applicability of these arguments to early childhood education. (Author/SS)

Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education

Up Against the Wall: Psychometrics Meets Praxis.

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LeMahieu, Paul G.; Wallace, Richard C. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1986

This article presents the viewpoint that care must be taken to fit the specifics of a testing program to its intended purpose. Testing for diagnosing individual student learning and for school evaluation should not be confused. Statewide testing programs may provide evaluative information, but are inadequate sources of diagnostic information. (LMO)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education