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Download full textSpurrier, Alex; Aldeman, Chad; Schiess, Jennifer O'Neal; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
This brief is part of a four-part series examining the past, present, and future of modern school accountability systems. With the dual forces of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national call to action on racial inequity, the question of how we should measure and hold schools accountable for the impact they have on students is more urgent than ever.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Educational History, Equal Education
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Direct linkRodosky, Robert J.; Munoz, Marco A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
The authors write about evaluation, testing, and research and their relation to policy, planning, and program in the Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) in Louisville, Kentucky. The authors focus on evaluation and testing for accountability and on managing the unit for this purpose. In detail they show the many evaluation demands from both…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Testing, Accountability, School Effectiveness
Boling, Nancy – 2003
In this study, Kentucky elementary school teachers provided feedback concerning the state's school reform process after 13 years of implementing the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Five counties were randomly selected out of twenty-four in western Kentucky, with one school chosen from each county. Elementary teachers who had taught…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
Jones, Ken; Whitford, Betty Lou – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Designed to monitor school accountability, KIRIS (Kentucky Instructional Results Information System) offers a powerful lesson about how high-stakes accountability systems can distort and undermine original visions for effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. Changes have been influenced by several interconnected elements:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment
Shatkin, Gavin; Gershberg, Alec Ian – Urban Education, 2007
This article builds and explores the hypothesis that parent and community participation in school governance can have positive impacts on community development by fostering improvements in school performance and school-community relations and by acting as a catalyst for collective action around community-development issues. It does so through case…
Descriptors: Community Development, Parent Participation, Community Involvement, School Based Management
Borko, Hilda; Elliott, Rebekah – 1998
This paper presents a focused case study of Ann and Kay, a team of exemplary elementary teachers, as they worked to modify their mathematics instruction to be consistent with the goals of the Kentucky Education Reform Act and Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS), its innovative high-stakes assessment system. At the time of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 2002
In 1998, the Kentucky legislature made adjustments to the assessment and accountability system established by the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 to create a new system, the Commonwealth Accountability and Testing System (CATS). The Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) are a component of CATS. KCCT assessments are given in grades 4, 5, 7, 8,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Portfolio Assessment, Reliability
Pankratz, Roger S., Ed.; Petrosko, Joseph M., Ed. – 2000
This book describes the nation's most comprehensive and longest-running statewide school-reform initiative: the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Focusing on the broad picture, the book is a compilation of 17 articles by education experts who were asked to examine the intended and unintended consequences of Kentucky's reform law. The book…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development
Kleinert, Harold L.; Kearns, Jacqueline Farmer; Kennedy, Sarah – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1997
This article describes the development of Kentucky's alternative assessment for students with disabilities, including the content and scoring standards for the Alternate Portfolio. Specific examples of entries at each grade are given. Initial implementation data are presented, and critical issues in the development of alternate statewide…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Stecher, Brian M.; Barron, Sheila; Borko, Hilda; Wolf, Shelby – 1997
This is the first report from a 5-year study of the classroom level effects of state assessment reforms. The first year examines changes in the teaching of writing and mathematics in Kentucky elementary and middle schools as a result of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System and the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). This report…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Partnership for Kentucky School Reform, Lexington. – 1996
The Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA) is one of the most comprehensive education reform efforts attempted in the United States. This document presents an overview of factors leading to KERA's passage, its accomplishments, and areas in need of improvement. The conditions leading up to passage of KERA included disparities across Kentucky…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Notes from the Field: Education Reform in Rural Kentucky, 2000
Since the 1990-91 school year, an ongoing project has studied the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in four rural Kentucky school districts. Study methods have included over 1,200 interviews with various stakeholders, observation of over 500 classroom instruction hours, and a comprehensive review of key documents. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Elliott, Judy – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1997
This commentary on "Accountability for All Students: Kentucky's Alternate Portfolio Assessment for Students with Moderate and Severe Cognitive Disabilities" (Kleinert and others), points out that Kentucky includes the assessment scores or results in the larger accountability system of the school and state. Noteworthy components and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Kleinert, Harold L.; Kearns, Jacqueline Farmer; Kennedy, Sarah – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1997
This response to comments on "Accountability for All Students: Kentucky's Alternate Portfolio Assessment for Students with Moderate and Severe Cognitive Disabilities" (Kleinert and others), discusses changes in the ways Alternate Portfolios are now scored and answers concerns on the inclusion of students with mild and severe disabilities…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Guskey, Thomas R.; Oldham, Ben R. – 1996
The Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) represents one of the most comprehensive pieces of educational reform legislation enacted in the United States. This article describes a series of unintended consequences that are the direct results of inconsistencies both between and within components of the reform. The inconsistencies have made certain…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
