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Direct linkPrice, Heather E. – Educational Policy, 2016
The school quality assessment process under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is criticized for oversimplifying and overemphasizing standardized test results and unfairly targeting diverse, urban schools. There has been much development in alternative test score evaluations, especially value-added models. These developments have tilted the public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Quality, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Environment
Download full textSimmonds, Michael; Webb, P. Taylor – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper describes how a locally developed school ranking system affected student enrolment patterns in British Columbia over time. In developing an annual school "report card" that was published in newspapers and online, the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute created a marketplace for school choice by devising an accountability scheme…
Descriptors: Accountability, Foreign Countries, School Choice, Educational Policy
Chi, Wendy C.; Welner, Kevin G. – American Journal of Education, 2008
Since 1996, the Center for Education Reform has released an annual report card, grading each state's charter school legislation and labeling as the "strongest" those laws placing the fewest and slightest restrictions on charter schools. While the Center for Education Reform rankings have undoubtedly been the most influential, at least four other…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Schmitz, Connie C.; Schillo, Barbara A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2005
This article reviews changes in the accountability landscape that have occurred for foundations in recent years and several precedents for foundation performance assessment. The authors then present a model of portfolio assessment that is used for organizational accountability and learning. This model, which was piloted in 2002 and 2003 for the…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Public Agencies, Report Cards, Performance Based Assessment
Mathews, Jerry G.; And Others – 1995
The Mississippi Report Card (MRC) is used by the State Department of Education as a public school accountability tool. The MRC describes and characterizes school district performance and links the performance indicator profile to the accreditation level for each school district in the state. This study provided a descriptive profile of each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Indicators
Kochan, Susan E.; And Others – 1993
Louisiana is one of the few states to produce and distribute school report cards to public school parents statewide. The state undertook a formal evaluation, here reported, of the "1991-92 Report Cards." In Phase 1 a random sample of roughly 2,000 parents and 6,000 faculty statewide was surveyed by mail with a 30-item questionnaire…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education
