Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) have advanced and matured, a number of states and localities have undertaken evaluations to validate the systems. Such efforts stem from the desire to ensure that the system is designed and operating in the ways envisioned when the system was established. Given that a central component in a QRIS…

This article demonstrates the sometimes compromised techniques involved in data collection and their subsequent reporting capabilities. To illustrate this point, a joint venture between the community colleges of Missouri, the Coordinating Board of Higher Education, and a national testing corporation completed a project assessing student outcomes.…