Creating a system of accountability: The impact of instructional assessment on elementary children's achievement test scores

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 11, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Meisels, Samuel J ^a,b   Atkins Burnett, Sally ^b,e   Xue, Yange ^b,c,f   Nicholson, Julie ^b,c   Bickel, Donna DiPrima ^d,g   Son, Seung Hee ^b  

^a ERIKSON INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g IFL Prog Content Focused Coaching

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