Sentences with phrase «of accountability policies»

The fact that the two exams displayed different trends before the introduction of the accountability policy suggests that they measure somewhat different concepts.
We must continue to recognize that the design of accountability policy matters, and we must refine our policies over time.
In education, we are hampered because many of our accountability policies create conditions that promote compliance over innovation.
A comparative and international history of school accountability can explore the relationships among individual national histories of accountability policy and discourse and broader questions of international trends and patterns.
We've also learned that the design of accountability policies can affect the way teachers respond to them.
This paper examines the effect of accountability policy on school practices and student outcomes with remarkably comprehensive and detailed data that include a multi-wave five - year survey of the census of public schools in Florida and administrative data on individual student performance over time.
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.
An effective redesign of accountability policies like NCLB may need to pay more specific attention to the processes and practices operating within schools.
There's also a growing consensus that in the next generation of accountability policies, we must broaden the criteria beyond test scores, and the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), encourages this kind of creative rethinking.
Our state adopted a basic re-write of our accountability policies under HB 3 two years ago.
For this reason, different exams often lead to different inferences about student mastery, regardless of whether any type of accountability policy is in place.
The size of achievement gains following the introduction of the accountability policy differed across item areas.
Managing in the middle: School leaders and the enactment of accountability policy.
«Experts will debate the merits of accountability policies for years to come,» said Huffington Post authors Joshua Bleiberg, center coordinator for the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and Darrell West, vice president of Governance Studies and the founding director for the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings.
Together, these two changes — measuring performance levels using a performance index with as many categories as possible and weighting growth more heavily than status — will go a considerable way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences.
But several studies do show longer - term effects of accountability policies; we have strong evidence from Raj Chetty and colleagues that impacts on test scores do predict impacts on other important life outcomes; and, again, many states appear poised to broaden accountability measures beyond just test scores.
While special education placement rates appeared to increase following the introduction of the accountability policy in Chicago, this alone can explain only a small fraction of the observed achievement gains.
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.
But a new regulation from the Department of Education allowing performance indexes go a long way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences, says Morgan Polikoff.
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