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Gray, Deborah M.; Smart, Karl L.; Bennett, Misty M. – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
The authors explore the disconnect between espoused and enacted values in assurance of learning activities--assessment is said to be encouraged, valued, and rewarded--but is it? The data from an analysis of 200 pages of the contractual rules (bylaws) for reappointment, tenure, and promotion at Central Michigan University demonstrate little…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Administration, Rewards, Recognition (Achievement)
Blank, Rolf K. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is working to respond to increased interest in the use of growth models for school accountability. Growth models are based on tracking change in individual student achievement scores over multiple years. While growth models have been used for decades in academic research and program evaluation, a…
Descriptors: State Government, State Departments of Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Kearney, C. Philip; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1974
A response to criticism by researchers House, Rivers, and Stufflebeam published in the June Kappan. (Editors)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation, State Departments of Education
House, Ernest; And Others – 1974
Accountability currently is an important concept throughout education. Michigan has assumed leadership among the States in exploring and applying accountability procedures. The purpose of this report is to examine the quality and implications of that leadership. Specifically, the authors' purpose is to assess the Michigan Accountability System…
Descriptors: Accountability, Citizen Participation, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
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Murphy, Jerome T.; Cohen, David K. – Public Interest, 1974
One view of accountability focuses on schemes that assume that if government can get more rational information and use it in more scientific ways, the schools' performance can be improved; the other assumes that the schools' problems are less scientific than political and that clients and constituents should influence educational decisions more…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Performance Factors
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Brown, Mary M.; Kiefer, Charles C. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1980
This evaluation approach provides a mechanism for obtaining and synthesizing managerial information about vocational education programs. Data analyses and the conclusions and recommendations of the study are used to determine future educational activities and priorities in the state. (SK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Management Information Systems, Program Evaluation
Stecher, Brian M.; Hanser, Lawrence M. – 1992
A study sought to determine the extent to which local accountability systems exist in vocational education and to describe the nature of the underlying relationships between such programs and their constituents. Data were collected through interviews from two local vocational education programs in each of five states (California, Florida,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment