The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning. (educationnext.org)
We choose to provide a couple of pathways to focus teacher effort, understanding, and action. (jplgough.blog)
By contrast, very little is known about how the availability of new information, or the experience of being evaluated, might change teacher effort and effectiveness. (educationnext.org)