accountability

State Examples
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Barry Topol
John Olson
Ed Roeber
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The purpose of this study was to: 1) determine the amount of money a typical state would incur to implement a high-quality assessment (HQA) system including performance components in comparison to the amount currently being spent on their state assessment, and 2) determine if various cost-...

Equity Issues
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Laura Wentworth
Julie Kessler
Linda Darling-Hammond
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In 2008, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) invited a team of researchers, including the authors, to study schools within the city, including elementary schools that were, like those profiled in High Schools for Equity, achieving strong educational outcomes with low-...

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Gene Wilhoit
Linda Pittenger
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This paper recommends an accountability approach that focuses on meaningful learning, enabled by professionally skilled and committed educators, and supported by adequate and appropriate resources, so that all students regardless of background are prepared for both college and career when they...

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Soung Bae
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This research brief describes practical and measurable indicators of career as well as college readiness that the state and districts can look to as they develop accountability plans. The report includes specific information about how performance assessment can be used to measure student...

State Accountability
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Jennifer Davis Poon
Kirsten Taylor Carr
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The purpose of this resource from CCSSO is to assist states who are interested in redesigning or reconsidering aspects of their accountability systems to better align with “next-generation” learning models designed to produce college and career ready outcomes for all students.

State Accountability
Center for American Progress, The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
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This study provides an overview of the landscape of next-generation accountability concepts implemented by states. In reviewing the work of the states and drawing upon the thinking in both CCSSO’s 2011 proposal and “Accountability for College and Career Readiness: Developing a New Paradigm” by...

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), PACE
Linda Darling-Hammond
David Plank
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This report from Linda Darling-Hammond and David Plank profiles the role of California's new accountability system. California’s new accountability system is different from the previous system in nearly every important respect. The new system is grounded in the concept of reciprocal...

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Gene Wilhoit
Linda Pittenger
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This paper from Linda Darling-Hammond, Gene Wilhoit, and Linda Pittenger recommends an accountability approach that focuses on meaningful learning, enabled by professionally skilled and committed educators, and supported by adequate and appropriate resources, so that all students are prepared...

State Accountability
Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)
Michael Fullan
Santiago Rincon-Gallardo
Andy Hargreaves
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This paper seeks to clarify the responsibilities of policy makers to create the conditions for an effective accountability system that produces substantial improvements in student learning, strengthens the teaching profession, and provides transparency of results to the public. The authors point...

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Brian Stecher
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A number of factors account for the failure of performance assessment to capture a large role in achievement testing in the U.S., and this history can inform educators and education policymakers looking for better ways to test students and schools in an era of standards-based accountability.  ...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Ruth Chung Wei
Raymond L. Pecheone
Katherine L. Wilczak
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This paper argues that halting testing won't fix flawed assessment and accountability systems.  Instead, the authors advocate improving the system of assessments to improve what is taught in school.  After outlining performance assessments, the paper outlines political and policy recommenations...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Soung Bae
Linda Darling-Hammond
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In this paper, Bae and Darling-Hammond propose three types of performance indicators for use in California's redesigned accountability system to measure and support career and college readiness. The report includes specific guidance for the use of performance assessment to measure both college...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford University School Redesign Network
Linda Darling-Hammond
Elle Rustique
Raymond L. Pecheone
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This report shows how the design of high school graduation policies can have important consequences for teaching, learning, and student attainment. It contrasts the results of single-test approaches to graduation with those of states using a broader range of measures to award a high school...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Linda Darling-Hammond
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This article authored by Linda Darling Hammond for CCSSO, outlines the criteria for a Student Assessment System, which should:

  • address the depth and breadth of standards as well as all areas of the curriculum, not just those that are easy to measure.
  • consider and include all
  • ...
Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Linda Darling-Hammond
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This paper by Linda Darling-Hammond outlines how states can achieve the goal of making high-quality assessments both affordable and feasible to implement while strengthening teaching and learning at the same time. States that seek such a system can achieve their goals by:

• Understanding...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Center for K – 12 Assessment & Performance Management
Linda Darling-Hammond
Raymond L. Pecheone
Ann Jacquith
Leah Walker
Susan E. Schultz
Ruth Chung Wei
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This paper by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ray Pecheone outlines a set of principles that are shared by the systems of high‐achieving nations as well as a number of high‐achieving states in the United States. These systems include the following:

• Assessments are grounded in a thoughtful,...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Applied Psychological Measurement
David Miller
Robert Lee Linn
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In this paper, David Miller and Robert Linn outline six aspects of construct validation to guide the validation of performance based assessments: content, substantive, structural, generalizability, external, and consequential. Each aspect is discussed, with the focus on studies that could be...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Ace Parsi
Linda Darling-Hammond
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This report by Ace Parsi and Linda Darling-Hammond is intended to familiarize state boards of education with performance assessments and help policymakers address some of the thorniest issues around these assessments: purpose, sustainability, reliability, accountability, policy...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Raymond L. Pecheone
Stuart Kahl
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This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large-scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability. Lessons from...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Ruth Chung Wei
Raymond L. Pecheone
Katie Wilczak
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This paper offers a retrospective research study of performance assessment initiatives beginning in the 1990s up to today.  The study addresses three specific questions: 

• What were the conditions that helped sustain some of the programs? 

• What were the challenges that led to...