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Language Matters: Teacher and Parent Perceptions of Achievement Labels from Educational Tests
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O'Donnell, Francis; Sireci, Stephen G. – Educational Assessment, 2022
Since the standards-based assessment practices required by the No Child Left Behind legislation, almost all students in the United States are "labeled" according to their performance on educational achievement tests. In spite of their widespread use in reporting test results, research on how achievement level labels are perceived by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
State Accountability Decisions under the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Validity, Stability, and Equity of School Ratings. EdWorkingPaper No. 23-863
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Erica Harbatkin; Betsy Wolf – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) began a new wave of school accountability under which states draw on multiple measures to assess school quality. States have options in terms of how to weight components in their school quality indices and how many years of data to use to determine school ratings. In this study, we simulate school ratings…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Legislation