Category: High-Stakes Testing

• At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability

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  July 29, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  Vasquez Heilig, J., Young, M. & Williams, A. (2012). At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability. Journal of Educational Administration, 50(5). The prevailing theory of action underlying accountability is that holding schools and students accountable will increase educational output. While accountability’s theory of action intuitively seemed plausible, at the point of No Child Left Behind’s national implementation, little empirical…

• Accountability Texas-style: The progress and learning of urban minority students in a high-stakes testing context

  1–2 minutes

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  July 28, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  Vasquez Heilig, J. & Darling-Hammond, L. (2008). Accountability Texas-style: The progress and learning of urban minority students in a high-stakes testing context. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 30(2), 75-110. This study examines longitudinal student progress and achievement on the elementary, middle, and high school levels in relation to accountability policy incentives in a large urban district in…