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Download full textBanks, Karen E. – 1994
This paper examines political influences on assessment programs and their effects on local school systems. Specifically, it describes North Carolina's political climate and examines the impact of political influences on educational assessment in the state. The political climate in North Carolina has produced a plethora of state-mandated tests,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Nash, John B. – 1994
This paper examines the problems of centralized academic-indicator systems in light of the move toward site-based management. Problems with current practice are examined in the framework of critical inquiry. Alternatives to current accountability guidelines are presented that harmonize positivism with critical inquiry, while respecting both local…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Action Research, Critical Theory
Reframing Accountability Policy Research with Postpositivism, Pluralism, Democracy and Subsidiarity.
PDF pending restorationMacpherson, R. J. S. – 1996
A 1994 review of international policy research on accountability in education indicates that there is widespread concern over policy content, processes, and consequences. Current purposes tend to be polarized by a simplistic dualism--hyperindividualism versus communitarianism. Policies and practices often exhibit neocentralist assumptions. This…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
