Identifying Effective Measures for a Statewide Accountability System

Аннотация

This paper is a project report of a policy analysis of state accountability measures used to evaluate public schools. Current state accountability systems use a variety of accountability measures to evaluate their schools. The inconsistent measures can create misrepresentations of how well or how poorly schools are educating their students. Two identical schools in different states can receive entirely different rankings based on the measures applied from their respective state accountability systems. The purpose of this project was to provide recommendations to state policymakers and state department of education officials on what accountability measures should be included in their state accountability systems.