Before
the introduction of the accountability policy in Chicago, a surprisingly high proportion of students left one or more items of the ITBS exam blank.
Moreover, because achievement data were available back to 1990, six years prior to
the introduction of the accountability policies, I was able to account for preexisting achievement trends within Chicago.
The size of achievement gains following
the introduction of the accountability policy differed across item areas.
Not exact matches
This study examined Career Academies in the early 1990s, before many
of the occupations common today even existed and prior to the
introduction of policies with important implications for secondary schools (e.g., school
accountability).
Finally, these trends will be provided to
policy makers in a «State
of the Nation» report about the real, but often hidden, costs and benefits
of initiatives such as the
introduction of a national curriculum and changes to national testing and
accountability requirements.