Beyond Test Scores : a Better Way to Measure School Quality.

What makes a school a "good" school? It's hard to say, and our current methods of measuring school quality are crude and often misleading. Parents who face the problem of where to matriculate their children are often left to surf websites that only offer one or two metrics by which to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneider, Jack
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Education > Aims and objectives > United States.
Educational accountability > United States.
Educational tests and measurements > United States.
Education and state > United States.
Responsabilité du rendement (Éducation) > États-Unis.
Tests et mesures en éducation > États-Unis.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Education > Aims and objectives.
Education and state.
Educational accountability.
Educational tests and measurements.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Wrong answer: standardized tests and their limitations
  • Through a glass darkly: how parents and policymakers gauge school quality
  • What really matters: a new framework for school quality
  • But how do we get that kind of information? making use of new tools
  • An information superhighway: making data usable
  • A new accountability: making data matter
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript.

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