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Personal Accountability in Education: Measure Development and Validation
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Rosenblatt, Zehava – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper, three-study research project, is to establish and validate a two-dimensional scale to measure teachers' and school administrators' accountability disposition. Design/methodology/approach: The scale items were developed in focus groups, and the final measure was tested on various samples of Israeli teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Measures (Individuals), Attitude Measures
The Need for Instructional Sensitivity and Construct Clarity in Pact: A Commentary on "Examining the Internal Structure Evidence for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers"
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Wilkerson, Judy R. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This commentary on the article titled "Examining the Internal Structure Evidence for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers: A Validation Study of the Elementary Literacy Teaching Event for Tier 1 Teacher Licensure" provides an overview of Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), its relationship to edTPA and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Certification
The Waive of the Future? School Accountability in the Waiver Era
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Polikoff, Morgan S.; McEachin, Andrew J.; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Duque, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2014
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have recently received waivers to the school accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As the prospects for reauthorizing the Act in the near term are dim, these new accountability systems will be law for at least several years. Drawing on a four-part framework from the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Teacher Work Sample Methodology: Displaying Accountability of U.S. Teacher Education Program Effectiveness
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Cooner, Donna; Stevenson, Cerissa; Frederiksen, Heidi – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
Productive strategies for evaluating outcomes in teacher licensure programs are becoming increasingly important in the education field. Research data from 492 teacher licensure program completers from 2006-2009 in the School of Education, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (USA) was compiled after accreditation by the Colorado…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Work Sample Tests
High School Exit Exams and "Mis"measurement
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Tienken, Christopher H. – Educational Forum, 2011
Test score validity takes center stage in the debate over the use of high school exit exams. Scant literature addresses the amount of conditional standard error of measurement (CSEM) present in individual student results on high school exit exams. The purpose of this study is to fill a void in the literature and add a national review of the CSEM,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Exit Examinations, State Departments of Education, Error of Measurement
Trait Validity and Reliability of TAAS Reading Scores: 1994-1999
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Lorence, Jon – Educational Research Quarterly, 2010
The Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) test was the major source of data for the Texas educational accountability system from 1994 through 2002. Contrary to critics who claim that TAAS data are invalid and unreliable measures of student performance, structural equation analyses of TAAS reading data based on the 1994 Texas third grade…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, High Stakes Tests, Reading Tests, Scores