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Direct linkO'Neill, Onora – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
Systems of accountability are "second order" ways of using evidence of the standard to which "first order" tasks are carried out for a great variety of purposes. However, more accountability is not always better, and processes of holding to account can impose high costs without securing substantial benefits. At their worst,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Evidence, Evaluation Utilization
Herman, Joan, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2017
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainment--the number of years a person spends in school--strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who heretofore led the…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Interpersonal Competence
Download full textCicchinelli, Louis F.; Barley, Zoe – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2010
This guide is designed to help districts and schools evaluate reform efforts related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), including School Improvement Grants. It includes practical, how-to tips for conducting program evaluations, whether one takes a "do-it-yourself" approach or seeks outside assistance to evaluate reform…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Change
Costello, Ron; Elson, Peggy; Schacter, John – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2008
For the last 3 years, more than 80% of the respondents to the "Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools" have stated that they would rather see a school's performance measure based upon "improvement shown by students" than the "percentage passing the test" (Rose & Gallup, 2007, p. 35). If this were to…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Student Improvement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating
Faubert, Violaine – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures concerning school evaluation in primary and secondary education within the OECD countries. First, it provides a typology of the existing systems of school evaluation across the OECD. It encompasses the diverse criteria and instruments commonly used to carry out schools evaluation, as…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
