Responding Effectively to Test-Based Accountability

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 578-583

  Hamilton, Laura ^a   Stecher, Brian ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 1942540559     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170408500804     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb, "Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 24, 2002, pp. 305-31.
2. Robert L. Linn, "Assessments and Accountability," Educational Researcher, March 2000, pp. 4-16; and Daniel Koretz and Sheila I. Barron, The Validity of Gains on the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 1998).
3. Robert L. Linn, "Assessments and Accountability," Educational Researcher, March 2000, pp. 4-16; and Daniel Koretz and Sheila I. Barron, The Validity of Gains on the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 1998).
4. Brian M. Stecher, "Consequences of Large-Scale, High-Stakes Testing on School and Classroom Practice," in Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, and Stephen P. Klein, eds., Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education (Santa Monica, Calif: RAND Corporation, 2002), pp. 79-100.
5. Brian Stecher, Laura Hamilton, and Gabriella Gonzalez, Working Smarter to Leave No Child Behind (Santa. Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 2003.)
6. There are some (for example, Alfie Kohn in this issue of the Kappan) who argue that the underlying purpose of NCLB is to break the monopoly of the public schools by imposing unattainable goals, labeling schools as failures, and opening the system to the services of private providers. For this article, we focus on NCLB as a tool for improving public schools.
7. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (Washington, D.C.: AERA Publications, 1999).
8. Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and Melissa Marschall, Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000).