His work interests include assessment and accountability technical and policy issues, assessment and accountability design and implementation, measures of student growth, standard setting,
educator accountability systems, and impact evaluation of policy and programs.
What we found without doubt is that large numbers of students, particularly in the early grades, were being placed in special education because of the failure of the school to properly teach them how to read, and from there they were essentially «warehoused», avoiding corrective intervention along
with educator accountability for what is really a literacy issue and an instructional issue.
Recent efforts by states to make
their educator accountability systems more rigorous represent a «seismic shift rarely seen in education,» according to the National...
When test results are used for school and
educator accountability a common response has been to spend large amounts of time on so - called «test prep».