Open AccessStandards: How do we measure and how are we measured?
Author(s) -
Aaron J. Elkins,
Marcia A. Mardis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw8213
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , academic standards , standards based assessment , professional standards , learning standards , measure (data warehouse) , psychology , pedagogy , public relations , political science , mathematics education , sociology , engineering ethics , educational assessment , higher education , computer science , engineering , curriculum , social science , database , law
Our focus for this issue was on standards in their many varieties. Standards hold a certain fascination for me, and I thought about this topic in some depth while preparing to write this editorial. It occurred to me that our school librarians may be working with at least two types of standards: performance standards and professional standards. Performance standards can be represented by student achievement goals that are established by the governing agency for schools or by the performance measures that appear in school librarians’ evaluations.