The law requires
districts to adopt «multiple objective academic measures,» which could include statewide standardized
test results, student portfolios and other placement
tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.
For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE
districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school
districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were
predictive of students»
test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52