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Book Synopsis School Accountability Report (SAR) Academic Performance Ratings by :
Download or read book School Accountability Report (SAR) Academic Performance Ratings written by and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Links to historical test results as well as rescent years. Results listed on spread sheets.
Book Synopsis School Accountability Reports by : Colorado. Department of Education
Download or read book School Accountability Reports written by Colorado. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report was issued as a statutory requirement of the Colorado State Board of Education. The report was directed to include, but not be limited to: (1) Whether student scores have improved since the accountability reports were issued in 2001; (2) Data on safety incidents involving students; (3) Whether the format of the School Accountability Reports (SARs) could be improved; (4) Whether the State Board or Department has been informed of problems with the SARs; and (5) Whether the State Board recommends that the SARs be continued. Gains since the first SAR indicate steady, but slow progress. The more significant gains are in the sheer number of schools that have been able to move up in the ratings from 2001 to 2004. Incidents involving student safety show nearly a 6% decline since 2001. Nine general issues identified by the report include: (1) Flexibility is needed for this Board to manage the quality and productivity of the SAR; (2) Data needs to be presented in a more readable format; (3) Colorado's three measures of holding schools accountable can be better communicated and reported to parents; (4) Clarify the use of the new academic growth rating for students; (5) Review and clean up statutory language on John Irwin Award Program; (6) Parents like the information on the SAR, but do not feel empowered to act; (7) Split schools require multiple SARs; (8) Use the Internet in a better way as an interactive communication toll with the SARs; and (9) Re-baseline weighted total scores to performance grades. Eighteen recommendations are discussed, these changes include verbiage changes for clarification, moving information from one part of the report to another, adding accreditation status and removal of irrelevant information. The report concludes that the School Accountability Report statutory language is one of the most prescriptive pieces of legislation that the State Board of Education must administer. While appreciating that the SAR is the most visible accountability system in Colorado, the State Board unanimously feels that added flexibility and less micromanagement of the reporting process would produce a more useful tool for both parents and policy-makers. Understanding the need for consistency with this type of report, the Board recommends making gradual changes over time rather than annual major overhauls. Allowing for the noted recommendations, the State Board of Education recommends the SAR be continued. The following are appended: (1) CSAP Trends 2001-2004; and (2) Safety Incidents and Actions Taken. (Contains 3 figures and 2 tables.).
Book Synopsis School Accountability by : Williamson M. Evers
Download or read book School Accountability written by Williamson M. Evers and published by Hoover Inst Press Publication. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from history, economics, political science, and psychology describe the present state of school accountability, how it evolved, how it succeeded and failed, and how it can be improved. They review the history behind the ongoing conflict between educators and policymakers over accountability and testing, describe various accountability schemes, and analyze the costs of accountability. Case studies of three states with strong school systems compare how accountability works in practice. Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book School Accountability Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information about academic performance, CSAP results, safety student/teacher ratio etc. for individual schools across Colorado.
Book Synopsis First-year Implementation of California's School Accountability Report Card by : Diane Miller Greene
Download or read book First-year Implementation of California's School Accountability Report Card written by Diane Miller Greene and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education by : Laura S. Hamilton
Download or read book Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education written by Laura S. Hamilton and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test-based accountability systems that attach high stakes to standardized test results have raised a number of issues on educational assessment and accountability. Do these high-stakes tests measure student achievement accurately? How can policymakers and educators attach the right consequences to the results of these tests? And what kinds of tradeoffs do these testing policies introduce? This book responds to the growing emphasis on high-stakes testing and offers recommendations for more-effective test-based accountability systems.
Book Synopsis Accountability in Action by : Douglas B. Reeves
Download or read book Accountability in Action written by Douglas B. Reeves and published by Lead + Learn Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll find all you need to design a comprehensive accountability system that includes more than test scores. Filled with discussion questions, sample reports, templates, and additional resources for research, this book is a must-have for everyone developing an accountability program that is fair and rigorous, and meets the needs of your organization.
Book Synopsis No Child Left Behind? by : Paul E. Peterson
Download or read book No Child Left Behind? written by Paul E. Peterson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met. Students at schools that fail to meet those standards may leave for other schools, and schools not progressing adequately become subject to reorganization. The significance of the law lies less with federal dollar contributions than with the direction it gives to federal, state, and local school spending. It helps codify the movement toward common standards and school accountability. Yet NCLB will not transform American schools overnight. The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability. Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for American education.
Book Synopsis Rating States, Grading Schools by : Marga Mikulecky
Download or read book Rating States, Grading Schools written by Marga Mikulecky and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents and policymakers have long sought to measure the quality of their public schools and to report that publicly in ways that are fair and equitable. In recent years, with a renewed focus on student outcomes, this effort has become a very public and sometimes acrimonious debate. With this project, Education Commission of the States (ECS) sought to answer three key questions from various stakeholders in a way that assists parents and policymakers in creating school accountability systems or "report cards" that are transparent and effective. The key questions and responding groups include: (1) Of researchers--Are the report cards easy to find?; (2) Of parents--Are the report cards easy to understand?; and (3) Of experts--What indicators are essential for measuring school and district performance? Experts selected five indicators they see as essential for any state's school accountability system: (1) student achievement; (2) student academic growth; (3) achievement gap closure; (4) graduation rates; and (5) postsecondary and career readiness. The aim of this report is to help state policymakers create accessible, useful, and effective school report cards so that states can improve their education systems by learning from each other. The following is appended: Members of the ECS School Accountability Advisory Group.
Book Synopsis School Accountability Report (SAR) Growth Calculations by :
Download or read book School Accountability Report (SAR) Growth Calculations written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The landscape of school rating systems by : Benjamin Dalton.
Download or read book The landscape of school rating systems written by Benjamin Dalton. and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the accountability movement in education has resulted in the proliferation of school report cards, school ratings and rankings, and other kinds of performance reporting for public consumption and policy use. To understand the strengths and limitations of school rating systems and the role they play in shaping public perceptions and school improvement practices, this paper situates rating systems within the broader field of comparative organizational assessments and neo-institutional theory; describes school rankings and rating systems in use by states and consumer-oriented enterprises; and details four aspects of school ratings (measurement, transformation, integration, and presentation) that affect their use and interpretation.
Book Synopsis Creating Responsible and Responsive Accountability Systems by : OERI State Accountability Study Group
Download or read book Creating Responsible and Responsive Accountability Systems written by OERI State Accountability Study Group and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis High Stakes Assessment and School Accountability by : Michael L. Young
Download or read book High Stakes Assessment and School Accountability written by Michael L. Young and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis State Evaluation of the Colorado Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program, 2004-2005 by :
Download or read book State Evaluation of the Colorado Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program, 2004-2005 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Final Report by : Colorado. Commission on Closing the Achievement Gap
Download or read book Final Report written by Colorado. Commission on Closing the Achievement Gap and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis High Stakes for High Achievers by : Michael J. Petrilli
Download or read book High Stakes for High Achievers written by Michael J. Petrilli and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report, the authors examine the extent to which states' current (or planned) accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high-achieving students, and how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to better serve all students. In their view, states can and should take four steps to ensure that the needs of high achievers are prioritized under ESSA: (1) For the first academic indicator required by ESSA ("academic achievement"), reward schools for getting more students to an "advanced" level; (2) For the second academic indicator expected by ESSA ("student growth"), rate schools using a "true growth model," i.e., one that looks at the progress of individual students at all achievement levels and not just those who are low-performing or below the "proficient" line; (3) Include "gifted students" (or "high-achieving students") as a subgroup, and report their results separately and (4) When determining summative school ratings, make "growth for all students" count for at least half of the rating. Based on these four design features, the authors rate states' current (or planned) accountability systems using a rubric and the most recent publicly available information. This rubric is the basis for two sets of ratings: one for the thirty-nine states (plus the District of Columbia) that calculate summative school ratings (or intend to) and one for the eleven states that don't take this step (or don't plan to). The ratings suggest that the overwhelming majority of current (and planned) state accountability systems provide schools with few incentives to focus on their high-achieving students. In fact, the analysis presented herein indicates that just four states--Arkansas, Ohio, Oregon, and South Carolina--have truly praiseworthy systems when it comes to focusing attention on these students. The results also highlight the specific areas where states need to improve. Only four states (Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon) base at least half of a school's rating on "growth for all students," and seven states and the District of Columbia assign no weight to this measure. (Eleven states don't calculate summative school ratings.) Given that student growth is the best way to evaluate schools' impact on student achievement--and the best way to signal that all kids matter--this finding is extremely alarming. Just five states (Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wyoming) include high-achieving or gifted students as a subgroup and separately report their results. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia rate (or plan to rate) schools' achievement using a model that gives extra credit for students who achieve at an "advanced" level, such as a performance index. Unfortunately, draft regulations published by the Department of Education appear to disallow such indices, and those fourteen states may be required to resume measuring academic achievement via proficiency rates alone. For this reason, the authors have one major recommendation for the Department of Education: All states to rate academic achievement using a performance index. Such an allowance is both consistent with ESSA and in the best interests of students. The Department's final regulations should encourage performance metrics that account for the achievement of all students. [Foreword by Chester E. Finn, Jr.].
Book Synopsis "How Do We Know They Know?" by : R. Deborah Davis
Download or read book "How Do We Know They Know?" written by R. Deborah Davis and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher education programs are charged with educating teachers to teach all students - preparing them to teach multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual, and differently-abled students in an increasingly global, inter-dependent world. This book takes as its starting point the assumption that pre-service teacher candidates, primarily white and middle-class, come to college to pursue a teaching degree having little if any experience of a social nature with persons not like themselves. Rooted in areas of theory and practice and based around the «Schools and Society» and «Culturally Relevant Teaching» courses required by the Teacher Education Program social justice conceptual framework, «How Do We Know They Know?» is a conversation about ways to assess these pre-service teachers' growth and movement, as they progress from naiveté to awareness about the realities of culture in schools.