accountability

Comprehensive School Quality Reviews: FairTest has
collaborated with Coalition for Effective Schools on a Working Paper
(PDF) and a Summary (PDF) of a Review system. 

“A Better Way to Evaluate Schools” outlines a 3-part school evaluation system – school quality reviews, limited standardized testing, plus school-based and local evidence.

June 17, 2010

for more information, contact
Dr. Monty Neill  (617) 522-0801
Bob Schaeffer  (239) 395-6773

for immediate release, Wednesday evening, January 27, 2010

Contact: Gary Ratner
Executive Director, Citizens for Effective Schools
301 469-8000                               

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Forum on Educational Accountability Successful in its Efforts to Improve the Higher Education Act, P.L. 110-315

Testing Our Children:

A Report Card on State Assessment Systems

Introduction

Executive Summary:
Preliminary Findings March 2004

[ FairTest copied this from another website, failed to capture the title, the file is no longer on the website that is noted at the end of this document.]

This Executive Summary of Preliminary Findings incorporates
the June 2003 Preliminary Findings. All data are for the 2000-2001
school year.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

As we enter into a national debate on school improvement and greater public school accountability with a heavy emphasis on testing, educators are concerned that a solitary focus on testing ignores important opportunities to help all students achieve at high levels. Overreliance on testing could have the unintended consequence of hurting more than helping.

Terry Crooks
Educational Assessment Research Unit
University of Otago
Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
(Terry.Crooks@otago.ac.nz)

Paper presented at the annual conference
of the American Educational Research Association,
Chicago, Illinois, 22 April 2003,
within Session 36.011 - Accountability from an International Perspective.

Some Criteria for Intelligent Accountability