ERIC Number: ED606824
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
Pages: 8
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Identifying Schools for Support and Intervention: Using Decision Rules to Support Accountability and Improvement under ESSA. Policy Brief
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Cardichon, Jessica; Melnick, Hanna
Learning Policy Institute
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, states are using a new approach to accountability based on multiple indicators of educational opportunity and performance. States have the opportunity to decide how to use them to identify schools for intervention and support and to encourage systems of continuous improvement across all schools. When identifying schools, states may consider an index of measures that produces a single summative score or a set of decision rules. In some cases, a decision rule approach can encourage greater attention to each of the measures, offer more transparency about how school performance factors into identification, and support more strategic interventions than those informed only by a single rating, ranking, or grade. This brief describes five options designed to meet ESSA's requirements and support states in effectively identifying such schools for support and intervention.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Improvement, Decision Making, Intervention, Educational Indicators, Identification, Low Achievement, Measurement Techniques
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Learning Policy Institute
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Every Student Succeeds Act 2015
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