The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). This SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…

The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). The SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…

Background/Context: The target of assessment validation is not an assessment but the use of an assessment for a purpose. Although the validation literature often provides examples of assessment purposes, comprehensive reviews of these purposes are rare. Additionally, assessment purposes posed for validation are generally described as discrete and…

Synthesizes research on standards-based reforms and accountability, with specific attention to purposes, models, and methods of inquiry. Concludes that research on reforms has been largely nonsystemic in design and has failed to help individual schools, school systems, and statewide systems develop. (SLD)

More than 120 delegates representing 22 Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) member countries met to discuss policies regarding assessment, certification, and recognition of occupational skills and competencies in view of the changing role of vocational education and training. The following themes were discussed in the plenary…