As schools across the country prepare for new standards under the Common Core, states are moving toward creating more aligned systems of assessment and accountability. This paper recommends an accountability approach that focuses on meaningful learning, enabled by professionally skilled and committed educators, and supported by adequate and…

Used a comparative international format to examine the way performance models are applied in higher education in the United States, England, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The theoretical framework draws on understandings of performance measures as normalizing instruments. Discusses the new conceptualizations of…