Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

The Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA) loosened the federal policy grip over states'
teacher accountability systems. We present information, collected via surveys sent to state …

Abstract The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act compelled states to design school
accountability systems based on annual student assessments. The effect of this federal …

A new push for accountability has become an increasingly important feature of education
policy in the United States and throughout the world. Broadly speaking, accountability seeks …

The present research is a follow-up study of earlier published analyses that looked at the
relationship between high-stakes testing pressure and student achievement in 25 states …

While numerous studies have found that school accountability boosts test scores, it is
uncertain whether estimated test score gains reflect genuine improvements or merely …

Since passage of the of No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, academic researchers,
econometricians, and statisticians have been exploring various analytical methods of …

The Infrastructure of Accountability brings together leading and emerging scholars who set
forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale …

Web 2.0 technologies have potential for teaching and learning, but show a slow rate of
adoption in education. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that contribute to …

Abstract Evaluation and training are important features of the employment relationship
between teachers and the schools they work for. The first feature, evaluation, involves …