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Download full textMathews, Jerry G.; And Others – 1995
The Mississippi Report Card (MRC) is used by the State Department of Education as a public school accountability tool. The MRC describes and characterizes school district performance and links the performance indicator profile to the accreditation level for each school district in the state. This study provided a descriptive profile of each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Indicators
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – Tennessee Education, 1995
The relationships among factors reported on report cards developed for local school districts in Tennessee and how they related to student outcomes were studied. The study revealed few, if any, straight-line relationships between inputs and outputs reported. Report cards are vastly overrated as indicators of educational quality. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Kochan, Susan E.; And Others – 1994
Louisiana is one of the few states that uses indicator data to produce school report cards for statewide distribution to parents. The system, the Progress Profiles Program, produces report cards that must be accessible, meaningful, and understandable to a lay audience. An evaluation of the 1991-92 report cards was undertaken in 1993. In Phase 1…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Bobbett, Gordon C.; French, Russell L. – 1993
As the latest in a series of studies analyzing the data reported on Tennessee's school district report cards, this paper focuses on finding a common statistical treatment to examine the impact of predictor variables on dependent variables. Investigations of the 1988-89 report card data explored the relationships among eight school district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education
Caldas, Stephen J.; Mossavat, Mark K. – 1994
In April 1992 the Louisiana Department of Education sent individualized school-level profiles and district composite reports to all 66 district offices in the state. To measure the effectiveness of this program and identify areas of improvement for subsequent profiles, a survey was conducted. This report considers the responses of 363 parent…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Kochan, Susan E.; And Others – 1993
Louisiana is one of the few states to produce and distribute school report cards to public school parents statewide. The state undertook a formal evaluation, here reported, of the "1991-92 Report Cards." In Phase 1 a random sample of roughly 2,000 parents and 6,000 faculty statewide was surveyed by mail with a 30-item questionnaire…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1992
The relationships among factors reported on a set of report cards developed for local school districts in Tennessee were studied. The analysis offers information about how selected factors relate to student outcome. Each year, Tennessee's State Board of Education produces a report card on each school district using data provided by the district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
