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Kane, Michael – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
Michael Kane writes in this article that he is in more or less complete agreement with Professor Koretz's characterization of the problem outlined in the paper published in this issue of "Measurement." Kane agrees that current testing practices are not adequate for test-based accountability (TBA) systems, but he writes that he is far…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Accountability, Standardized Tests, Equated Scores
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Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea; Lingard, Bob; Sellar, Sam – Theory Into Practice, 2016
Current debates about test-based accountability policies revolve around questions of how to ensure that all students have access to high-quality schools and teachers. Whether and how one can meet this goal depend, in part, on the nature of the arguments that policy proponents and opponents mobilize in these debates. This article examines these…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Educational Policy, Conflict, Educational Quality
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Thomas, P. L. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
The election of Barack Obama appeared to signal a shift in U.S. policy toward the Left, particularly since Obama has been framed as a "socialist," but the education discourse and policy pursued under Obama and voiced by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has shown that education reform remains in the midst of a powerful corporate model. This essay…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Commercialization, Public Education, Politics of Education
Atteberry, Allison – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
This paper investigates the extent to which spring-to-spring testing timelines bias teacher value-added as a result of conflating summer and school-year learning. Using a unique dataset that contains both fall and spring standardized test scores, the author examines the patterns in school-year versus summer learning. She estimates value-added…
Descriptors: Testing, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Scores
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Dietel, Ron – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2012
Even as the Internet and i-devices have changed so many parts of people's lives, educational testing has not changed substantially in decades. Though researchers and educators have for years raised ample concerns about existing tests, assessments have barely evolved. Further, despite years of expanded testing and greater school accountability,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability, National Competency Tests
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Feuer, Michael J. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2011
In this keynote address, the author shares his reflections on politics, economics, and testing. He focuses on assessment and accountability and begins with some data from large scale written educational testing, "circa 1840". The author argues that people's penchant for accountability and their appetite for standardized testing are, in…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests, Risk
Scherrer, Jimmy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The use of value-added modeling (VAM) in school accountability is expanding, but deciding how to embrace VAM is difficult. Various experts say it's too unreliable, causes more harm than good, and has a big margin for error. Others assert VAM is imperfect but useful, and provides valuable feedback. A closer look at the models, and their use,…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Accountability, Models, Data
Weiss, Elaine – School Administrator, 2011
Last May, the seven most recent New York State Teacher of the Year award winners joined the 1993 recipient in sounding the alarm bell over the state's new plan to stake 40 percent of teachers' performance evaluations on students' standardized test scores. In their letter to Chancellor Merryl Tisch and the state Board of Regents, the teachers said…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Governing Boards, Performance Based Assessment
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Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Test-based accountability as well as value-added asessments and much experimental and quasi-experimental research in education rely on achievement tests to measure student skills and knowledge. Yet, we know little regarding fundamental properties of these tests, an important example being the extent of measurement error and its implications for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Error of Measurement
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Vyrostek, Sarah – Educational Horizons, 2009
Rather than regard frequent and subjective testing as a negative, it should prove more beneficial for educators to offer students an opportunity to acquire life skills that will carry them through any test-taking situation. Offering students the skills necessary to succeed not only in the classroom but also through testing is where accountability…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Accountability, Teaching Experience, Educational Objectives
Bruton, Venita L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Standardized tests are an education reality and an important accountability consideration in most states and school systems. Most states require standardized assessments to meet requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2001. Changes to curriculum and instruction and to the school culture frequently occur through a school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests
Jacob, Anna M.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2012
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) is the nation's oldest and largest urban school choice program, offering private-school scholarships to low-income students in the city of Milwaukee since 1990. In the early years of the program, voucher schools were not required to test their students, though many of them did so using nationally normed…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Educational Testing
Yaffe, Deborah; Coley, Richard J., Ed.; Pliskin, Richard, Ed. – Educational Testing Service, 2009
Annual standardized testing lies at the heart of the accountability system that American education reformers and policymakers have established during the past decade in an effort to ensure equal opportunity for all students, no matter their race, ethnicity or wealth. The new testing regime has brought national attention to the schooling of…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Disadvantaged Youth, Standardized Tests, Accountability
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2009
As the recession crimps education budgets, states are beginning to pare the number of standardized tests they give, particularly those that no longer factor into state or federal accountability decisions. At the district level, though, it's a different story. Despite pressure not to cut staffing and programs, many districts are preserving local…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Testing, Educational Finance, Standardized Tests
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Steinberg, Carola – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
The intention of this article is to illustrate how assessment is an "emotional practice" (Hargreaves, 1998) for teachers and how paying attention to the emotions involved can provide useful information about assessment practices to teachers, teacher-educators and policy-reformers. Through presenting a review of research literature it makes three…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Formative Evaluation, Accountability, Student Evaluation
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