Accountability and Student Growth: A National Perspective

Wisconsin Department of Education · July 2011

Accountability and Student Growth: A National Perspective — Wisconsin Department of Education, July 2011.
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July 28, 2011

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  1. Accountability and Student Growth A National Perspective Damian W Betebenner National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
  2. Educational Accountability: A Plethora of Initiatives No Child Left Behind: Criterion Referenced Accountability/Universal Proficiency. Institution level (i.e., school accountability), not personnel level Race to the Top (RttT): Accountability as personnel evaluation New Initiatives: Universal Career and College Readiness. Accountability and Student Growth
  3. Educational Accountability: A Plethora of Initiatives Challenge: Create a comprehensive and coherent accountability system that includes all stakeholders in the drive to improve educational quality for all students. Challenge: Create a comprehensive and coherent accountability system that weaves together: What is. What should be. What is reasonable. Accountability and Student Growth
  4. Comprehensive Accountability Maximizing the progress of all students toward career and college readiness requires attention toward multiple points of influence. Institutional – Schools, Districts Personnel – Principals and Teacher Programs – Curriculum and educational programs Students State and Federal mandates have often been piecemeal (schools or teachers/principals). Groups feel like scapegoats. Everyone plays a role from policy makers to parents. Accountability and Student Growth
  5. Coherent Accountability Accountability initiative spread across different levels are often incoherent Indicators at the state, district, school, and teacher level often do not “speak” to each other. Goal: Create a unified indicator system that speaks to all stakeholder goals: Comprehensive and coherent so that participants are tied to “translatable” goals. Accountability and Student Growth
  6. Status Quo The Center for Assessment is currently working with approximately 20 states on growth and accountability. A variety of use cases: RttT states: Focus is on teacher evaluation Non RttT states: Diagnostic uses of growth data, institutional evaluation (including growth for AYP purposes), program evaluation. Some use cases are more personal than others. Recommendation: Be deliberate but don’t rush. Less personal use cases allow stakeholders to become familiar with the indicators. Accountability and Student Growth
  7. Wisdom Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand. Confucius Accountability and Student Growth