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Direct linkPhillip Dawson; Margaret Bearman; Mollie Dollinger; David Boud – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Cheating attracts a significant amount of attention in conversations about assessment, and with good reason: if students cheat, we cannot be sure they have met the learning outcomes of their course. In this conceptual article we question the attention given to cheating as a concept and argue that the broader concept of validity is a more important…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Inclusion, Test Validity
Download full textHaun, Billy – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
The purpose of this commentary is to describe recent efforts in Virginia to develop and use performance assessments, including the challenges that emerged during this process and key considerations for states that integrate performance assessment into their systems. Performance assessments can play an important role in preparing students for…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Educational Policy
Gitomer, Drew H.; Martínez, José Felipe; Battey, Dan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In 2019, Drew H. Gitomer, Dan Battey, and José Felipe Martínez published a paper detailing apparent violations of fundamental principles and norms in the reporting of technical information about the edTPA, a widely used high-stakes assessment for teacher licensure. In this article, they describe and criticize the lack of appropriate response to…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, High Stakes Tests, Test Construction
Larios, Rosalinda J.; Chiu, Calli Lewis; Ylagan-Nicanor, Rohanna – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2023
In the state of California, the Education Specialist Teaching Performance Assessment (EdSp TPAs) is the latest accountability measure to be required of aspiring education specialists. Existing literature has been overwhelmingly critical of the TPAs (Dover, 2022; Valdez et al., 2020). And now, in the dawn of the EdSp TPAs, there must be a candid…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Specialists, Special Education
Jennifer Mishory – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2021
This program memorandum informs states that the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments) have determined it is appropriate and reasonable for the Department of Labor (DOL) to begin assessing performance for two performance indicators under Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) title I and III core programs for Program…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Innovation, Educational Indicators, Program Evaluation
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2024
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding each institution's direction…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, College Enrollment, Funding Formulas
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2023
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding each institution's direction…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Strategic Planning, Statewide Planning
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2024
Federal Student Aid (FSA), a principal office of the United States (U.S.) Department of Education (Department), is required by law to produce an annual report, which details the organization's fiscal year financial and program performance. The Federal Student Aid FY 2024 Annual Report (Annual Report) is a comprehensive document that provides an…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Public Agencies
Amy Loyd – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
On February 23, 2024, the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor (the Departments) published a final rule in the "Federal Register" (89 FR 13814) that defines the sixth performance indicator--effectiveness in serving employers--as "Retention with the Same Employer" in the second and fourth quarters following a participant's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Labor Turnover, Attachment Behavior, Group Unity
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2022
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding each institution's direction…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Strategic Planning, Statewide Planning
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2024
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between institutional administrators, University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Finance, Graduation Rate
Ben Erwin; Shayna Levitan – Education Commission of the States, 2024
Summative assessments measure students' mastery of grade-level academic standards and skills in specific content areas after learning. State summative assessment systems provide students and families, school and district leaders, and state policymakers with valuable data to help understand student progress and school quality. This Policy Guide…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Federal State Relationship, Public Policy
Dougherty, Kevin J.; Natow, Rebecca S. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Neoliberal theories--whether the new public management, principal-agent theory, or performance management--have provided the rationale for sweeping reforms in the governance and operation of higher education. This paper expands our understanding of neoliberal theory and practice by examining a leading neoliberal reform: performance-based funding…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Performance Based Assessment, Higher Education, Neoliberalism
Shepard, Lorrie A. – American Educator, 2021
According to Lorrie A. Shepard, claims that testing will serve equity very often are not true. From minimum competency tests in the '70s; basic-skills tests in the '80s; "tests worth teaching to" in the '90s; high-frequency, high-stakes tests in the '00s; and added layers of commercial interim tests in the '10s, it seems it has…
Descriptors: Testing, Accountability, Equal Education, Failure
D'Brot, Juan – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2022
Accountability mechanisms and processes have evolved with changes in statute. State Education Agency (SEA) accountability systems may exhibit characteristics of compliance- and/or improvement-focused systems in light of requirements under the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" (ESEA) and its reauthorizations under the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Best Practices, Disclosure, State Departments of Education
