accountability
FairTest Reaction to President Obama's State of the Union Proposals on School "Reform"
Posted January 28th, 2010 by fairtest
for more information, contact
Dr. Monty Neill (617) 522-0801
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773
for immediate release, Wednesday evening, January 27, 2010
Forum on Educational Accountability Successful in its Efforts to Improve the Higher Education Act
Posted October 24th, 2008 by fairtest
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: Introduction
Posted January 7th, 2008 by fairtestTesting Our Children:
A Report Card on State Assessment Systems
Introduction
Students with Disabilities Report Executive Summary: Preliminary Findings March 2004
Posted January 3rd, 2008 by fairtest
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
TESTING PLUS
Posted December 6th, 2007 by fairtestAs 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.
Some Criteria for Intelligent Accountability Applied to Accountability in New Zealand
Posted August 29th, 2007 by fairtest
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
Links on Authentic Assessment and Accountability
Posted August 29th, 2007 by fairtesthttp://www.ceschangelab.org/cs/clpub/view/cl_cat/29
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/schools/nem/nem_overview.html
Authentic Assessment and Accountability
Assessment
Determining how, what and how well a student is learning – is an essential part of teaching. While assessment too often is reduced to standardized testing, teachers and researchers have created a wide range of powerful assessment tools and practices that are being used in schools across the nation.
FairTest has produced several publications about authentic performance assessment:
Accountability
This page contains materials and links that analyze and critique standardized test-driven models of accountability, such as the "No Child Left Behind"Act; and that propose, discuss and evaluate different approaches to accountability.
Because accountability depends greatly on the proper use of high-quality assessment, you should also visit The Case against High-Stakes Testing and The Case for Authentic Assessment.
A Learner-Centered School Accountability Model: An Alternative to High Stakes Testing
Posted April 24th, 2007 by adminKen Jones
