Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and HumanitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The National Education Report Card Act of 1990
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and HumanitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The National Education Report Card Act of 1990
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and HumanitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
An Age of Accountability
Author: John L. RuryPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197883229X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education from 1970 to 2020. For more than half a century, the quest to hold schools and educators accountable for academic achievement has relied almost exclusively on standardized assessment. The theory of change embedded in almost all test-based accountability programs held that assessment with stipulated consequences could lead to major improvements in schools. This was accomplished politically by proclaiming lofty goals of attaining universal proficiency and closing achievement gaps, which repeatedly failed to materialize. But even after very clear disappointments, no other policy framework has emerged to challenge its hegemony. The American public today has little confidence in institutions to improve the quality of goods and services they provide, especially in the public sector. As a consequence, many Americans continue to believe that accountability remains a vital necessity, even if educators and policy scholars disagree.
Resources in Education
Author: Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: The Nation's Report Card
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Teacher Excellence
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The 1990 Science Report Card : NAEP's Assessment of Fourth, Eighth, and Twelfth Graders
Author: Lee R. JonesPublisher:
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Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This report from The Nation's Report Card provides further information about students' lack of preparation in science, their apparent disinclination to enroll in challenging science courses, and the comparatively low achievement of Back and Hispanic students, females, economically disadvantaged students, and non-college bound students. These Science Report Card results are based on a national survey of nearly 20,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12, conducted during the winter and spring of 1990 by the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The results from the 1990 science assessment were analyzed using item response theory (IRT) methods, allowing NAEP to describe performance across the grades and subpopulations on a 0 to 500 scale. Along this continuum, four levels of proficiency were defined: Level 200: Understands Simple Scientific Principles; Level 250: Applies General Scientific Information; Level 300: Analyzes Scientific Procedures and Data; and Level 350: Integrates Specialized Scientific Information. Overall science proficiency by race/ethnicity, gender, region, type of community, type of school, parents' highest level of education, additional home factors, types of high school programs, and plans after high school was determined. Chapters include: (1) "Overall Science Proficiency for the Nation and Demographic Subpopulations"; (2) "Levels of Science Proficiency for the National and Demographic Subpopulations"; (3) "Science Proficiency by Content Areas for the Nation, Subpopulations, and in Relation to High School Course-Taking"; (4) "Attitudes toward Science Education and Students' Experiences in Science"; (5) "Toward Scientific Literacy for All: Instructional Goals and Practices"; and (6) "Who Is Teaching Science? A Profile of the Eighth-Grade Science Teaching Force." The profile survey on teachers included data on race/ethnicity, years of teaching experience, level and type of teaching certification, academic training, teachers' perceptions of their preparation to teach science topics, and teachers' professional activities in science. An overview of the procedures used in the 1990 science assessment, the NAEP scale anchoring process for the 1990 science assessment and additional example anchor items, and statistical data for all parts of the survey are appended. (KR)