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Chapter Twenty-Eight
Making Accountability Decisions
Increasing Accountability
• Over the past 20 years, there has been an increasing demand for educational accountability
• Movement from focus on processes to focus on outcomes
Legal Requirements
• No Child Left Behind– States must have assessment and accountability
students– Must report on performance and progress of all
students
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act– Students with disabilities must participate– Alternate assessments
• New legislation coming
Types of Accountability
• System accountability– States must set targets for adequate yearly
progress that include assessment participation and performance, graduation rates, and attendance
– Certain consequences occur if targets are not met
• Student accountability– Some states choose to set additional
consequences for individual students (i.e., grade promotion/retention, scholarships, etc.)
Types of Standards
• Content Standards• Achievement (performance) standards– Grade-level achievement standards– Alternate achievement standards– Modified achievement standards (controversial)
Alternate Assessment
• Developed by states to measure the achievement of students (particularly those with disabilities) who can not demonstrate skills and knowledge according to the regular assessment, even with accommodations
• Students with severe disabilities often participate
• Variation in format (portfolio, test, rating scales, etc.)
Important Considerations
• Typically, accountability tests are developed to measure performance of groups of students, and are not necessarily adequate for making individual decisions.
• It is important for students to be tested in the way that they can best demonstrate their skills and knowledge, which may require test accommodations for many students with disabilities
Best Practices
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