English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Matthew R. Della Sala is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations in the Department of Educational Studies at Purdue University. His primary research interests are educational policy, finance, and program evaluation. The conceptualization and measurement of education finance equity and adequacy has engaged researchers for more than three decades. At the same time, calls for increased academic accountability and higher student achievement in K-12 public education have reached new levels at both the national and state levels. Aligning these represents an emerging area of research with many challenges. For example, recent efforts by the authors to measure the alignment of fiscal equity and student outcomes using an equity ratio faced challenges, particularly because traditional education finance statistical measures do not fully account for factors that either impeded or contributed to their alignment.1 Hence, the purpose of this article is to expand upon our previous work not only by identifying contributing factors, but also by proposing a conceptual framework that explains their role in measurement and alignment of state education finance and academic accountability policies. In this article, we first review the process we used to create an equity ratio used to measure alignment. We then turn to our subsequent and related research to identify relevant contextual factors. Based upon these studies, we propose a conceptual framework that illustrates the interrelationship of factors associated with the alignment of education finance and accountability policies.

educational considerations

Education Funding and Student Outcomes: A Conceptual Framework for Measurement of the Alignment of State Education Finance and Academic Accountability Policies