District accountability without a state assessment: A proposed model

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 6-16

  Buckendahl, Chad W ^a   Impara, James C ^a   Plake, Barbara S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444254551     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2002.tb00102.x     Document Type: Article

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