New Hampshire set out to evaluate the degree to which its school accountability system worked as intended. This report describes the findings.
Topics: Program Evaluation
From Session 2 of the 2021 Convening on Through-Year Assessment: Claims are the foundation for design and validation. This session will include representatives from states and vendors to address some […]
This paper describes the importance of collecting opportunity-to-learn (OTL) data and provides a framework to help states begin an OTL data collection and reporting system.
This paper identifies the key elements underlying a comprehensive accountability system evaluation and illustrates how the framework can be applied to design an evaluation plan for state and locally defined […]
This presentation provides an approach for thinking about the validity of accountability systems, and provides several examples of how system design decisions may impact the validity of a school accountability […]
Ten suggestions for improving accountability issues caused by the technical implementation of the adequate-yearly-progress (AYP) rules of No Child Left Behind.
An overview of various ways of looking at school performance, starting from simple scale score means to complex, conditioned, multi-level models to examine the assumptions underlying the different models and […]
A framework for designing a program to evaluate the validity of state accountability systems is presented in this session, including examples of several possible studies.
Presentation at the 1997 CCSSO Annual Large-scale Assessment Conference; discusses systems of evaluating & adequate yearly progress as well as methods of calculating and reducing error.