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Strategies for Examining the Consequences of Assessment and Accountability Programs
Author(s) -
Lane Suzanne,
Stone Clement A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2002.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - accountability , argument (complex analysis) , principal (computer security) , set (abstract data type) , state (computer science) , psychology , management science , political science , computer science , economics , medicine , law , algorithm , programming language , operating system
This article addresses issues in evaluating the consequences of assessment programs that are developed for the purpose of holding schools accountable to state standards. After providing a brief review of research examining consequential evidence, a validation study to obtain consequential evidence for state assessment and accountability programs is proposed. The proposal includes a validity argument, a set of propositions that follow from the validity argument, a delineation of the consequential evidence needed, and a way to model the relationship between performance gains and school, principal, teacher, and student variables.