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Download full textSmith, Mary Lee – 1996
In 1991 Arizona embarked on a program to change schools and make them more accountable for educational achievement. The instrument of reform was an assessment program known as the Arizona Student Assessment Program (ASAP), the most notable feature of which was a performance assessment that was added to an already extensive battery of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Culture, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Spagnolo, Joseph A. – 1997
A state superintendent of education discusses standards from the point of view of a policymaker, acknowledging both educational and political elements. The objective for the policymaker is to take the work of researchers and educational theorists and make it something that practitioners and ultimately the public can understand. The first thing is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Technology
