A special section outlines key considerations and concerns that education leaders will have to address as they make the standards a reality, from determining which instructional resources are truly aligned with the standards to incorporating Common Core assessment
results into accountability systems.
Too many states try to include too many
measures into their accountability system, and then none of the individual measures are really important or really guide schools on what their learning outcomes need to be.
Moreover, if states are worried about year - to - year fluctuations introducing
noise into their accountability systems, they should be thinking about how to average over multiple years in order to increase the precision of their determinations.
Traditional methods of studying social - emotional skills will have to evolve in more reliable, less subjective ways if educators and policymakers expect to incorporate them
validly into accountability systems and school improvement plans, education researchers meeting here last week cautioned.
Finally, according to an analysis by the California Department of Education (CDE), this policy will bring more than 1,200 additional schools
into the accountability system for English learners by increasing the number of students being tracked in each school.
States will need to build new measures and
metrics into their accountability systems to place greater value on these pathways and credentials as part of a system that encourages and supports college and career readiness for all students.
As states continue to grapple with the most appropriate ways to hold schools accountable under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), there is a lack of consensus on how alternative settings should
fit into accountability systems and whether those systems should be separate from or included in accountability systems for traditional schools.
These tests have real consequences: their results
feed into accountability systems, which have been used for more than a decade to hold schools and districts accountable for their students» learning.
A special section outlines some key considerations and concerns that education leaders will have to address as they make the standards a reality for students across the country, from determining which instructional resources are truly aligned with the standards to incorporating Common Core assessment
results into accountability systems.
But baking that expectation, quite literally,
into accountability systems is destined to deflate the grades of schools like Sawgrass and demoralize their teachers, students, and families.
Yet, questions remain about what measures are reliable and valid for use as accountability metrics and how to best incorporate
them into accountability systems.
«They should decide how much test results should factor
into their accountability system.»
ESSA requires states to annually measure the achievement of not less than 95 percent of the students in the state on the required state assessments and to explain how they will factor the 95 percent participation requirement — both for students overall and for each student group —
into their accountability system.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) proposes changes in how states include the nation's growing population of English Learners (ELs)
into the accountability system.
Griffith applauded the new federal education law, ESSA, and its mandate to states that they include a so - called «non-academic measure»
into their accountability system, and made clear how this additional measure aligns with ASCD's call for «multimetrics.»