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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.

Educational accountability. --- Educational tests and measurements. --- Educational tests and measurements --- Educational accountability --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education

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Examines five accountability models--two from the manufacturing sector; a performance incentive model used in the evaluation of job training programs for the poor; accountability in the legal sector; and accountability in health care as shown by clinical practice guidelines, use of statistical risk-adjustment methods, and the public reporting of health performance measures. The authors summarize the models? effectiveness and draw lessons for implementing the No Child Left Behind Act.

Educational accountability--United States. --- Organizational effectiveness--Evaluation. --- School management and organization--United States. --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Educational accountability --- School management and organization --- Organizational effectiveness --- Evaluation.

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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 places a strong emphasis on the use of student achievement test scores to measure school performance, and, throughout the United States, school and district education reform efforts are increasingly focusing on the use of student achievement data to make decisions about curriculum and instruction. To encourage and facilitate data-driven decisionmaking, many states and districts have begun providing staff with information from value-added assessment (VAA) systems-collections of complex statistical techniques that use multiple years of test-score data to try

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