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Download full textSpurrier, Alex; Aldeman, Chad; Schiess, Jennifer O'Neal; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
This brief is part of a four-part series examining the past, present, and future of modern school accountability systems. With the dual forces of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national call to action on racial inequity, the question of how we should measure and hold schools accountable for the impact they have on students is more urgent than ever.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Direct linkTröhler, Daniel – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Based on archival material, the following paper analyzes the political strategies of the early OECD stakeholders in transforming schooling from a cultural to a technological system and how they were in need of standardizing different existing patterns of thoughts or institutional behaviors in the member countries. The European…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, International Organizations, Foreign Countries
Kanjee, Anil; Moloi, Qetelo – Perspectives in Education, 2016
This article proposes the use of a standards-based approach to reporting results from large-scale assessment surveys in South Africa. The use of this approach is intended to address the key shortcomings observed in the current reporting framework prescribed in the national curriculum documents. Using the Angoff method and data from the Annual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Accountability, Standard Setting
Brawley, Sean; Clark, Jennifer; Dixon, Chris; Ford, Lisa; Ross, Shawn; Upton, Stuart; Nielsen, Erik – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2013
Higher education in Australia is currently in a state of flux, with the Federal Government's Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency commencing operations in January 2012. The "After Standards Project" has been working with Australian university history departments and the Australian Historical Association, educating and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Accountability
Scherman, Vanessa; Zimmerman, Lisa; Howie, Sarah J.; Bosker, Roel – Perspectives in Education, 2014
In South Africa, very few standard-setting exercises are carried out in education and, if they are, teachers are not involved in their execution. As a result, there is no clear understanding of what the standard is and how it was arrived at. This situation is compounded when teachers are held accountable when learners do not meet the prescribed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standard Setting, Academic Standards, Elementary School Teachers
Doorey, Nancy A. – Educational Leadership, 2013
A short 27 months ago, two groups of U.S. states were each awarded more than $175 million to design, develop, and pilot test a new generation of assessments (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). These new tests will replace assessments in English language arts and mathematics that are currently in use within state and federal accountability…
Descriptors: Accountability, Consortia, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards
Maryland State Department of Education, 2018
Based on Maryland's 2017-2018 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) results, nearly half of all entering kindergarten children show foundational skills indicating they are fully ready for kindergarten, more than a third are approaching readiness, and 18% have emerging readiness skills. Results for the 2017-2018 school year show a slight increase…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Academic Standards, Gender Differences
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2016
This report informs Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, the Parliament of Australia, the Australian higher education community and the general public about the performance of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA or the Agency) during the financial year ending 30 June 2016. Prepared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2015
This report informs Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, the Parliament of Australia, the Australian higher education community and the general public about the performance of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA or the Agency) during the financial year ending 30 June 2015. Prepared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance
Cook, Gary; Linquanti, Robert; Chinen, Marjorie; Jung, Hyekyung – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2012
The "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" ("ESEA"), as amended by the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" inaugurated important changes in assessment and accountability for English Learner (EL) students. Specifically, Title III of the law required states to develop or adopt English-language proficiency (ELP)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, English Language Learners, Federal Legislation
Gaal, John; Wermes, Andrew – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
The Association for Skilled and Technical Sciences (ASTS) serves as the professional organization for Trade and Industrial Education (T&I) teachers. As part of its mission, ASTS is committed to providing leadership, voice and support for its membership. Nearly one year ago, driven by its concern that federal or state education agencies should not…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Certification, Trade and Industrial Education, Academic Standards
Colyvas, Jeannette A. – American Journal of Education, 2012
Our current educational environment is subject to persistent calls for accountability, evidence-based practice, and data use for improvement, which largely take the form of performance metrics (PMs). This rapid proliferation of PMs has profoundly influenced the ways in which scholars and practitioners think about their own practices and the larger…
Descriptors: Evidence, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Environment, Accountability
Bennett, John; Tognolini, Jim; Pickering, Samantha – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
This paper describes how a state education system in Australia introduced standards-referenced assessments into its large-scale, high-stakes, curriculum-based examinations in a way that enables comparison of performance across time even though the examinations are different each year. It describes the multi-stage modified Angoff standard-setting…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Tests, Foreign Countries, Cutting Scores
Castellano, Katherine E.; Ho, Andrew D. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2013
This "Practitioner's Guide to Growth Models," commissioned by the Technical Issues in Large-Scale Assessment (TILSA) and Accountability Systems & Reporting (ASR), collaboratives of the "Council of Chief State School Officers," describes different ways to calculate student academic growth and to make judgments about the…
Descriptors: Guides, Models, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Reindl, Travis – Trusteeship, 2011
As states struggle to boost economic growth and create new jobs, colleges must change to help meet the demand for talented workers. Boards of public institutions need new metrics to determine how well they are meeting statewide workforce goals. States must focus more on measuring higher education's effectiveness and efficiency, especially when it…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Outcomes of Education, Metric System, Labor Force Development
