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Creating Accountability in Big City Schools Creating Accountability in Big City Schools
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ling-Hammond, Linda Dai Ascher, Carol Darling-Hammond, Lin Da Flaxman, Erwin Schwartz, Wendy |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Accountability has always been a basic concept in public educa6ion, although ideas about how to accomplish it have changed over the years. Problems in urban schools have given rise to the hope that carefully created systems of accountability might spur school improvement and school restructuring. Devising a system of genuine accountability in a large urban school is a zomplex task, involving careful sorting of responsibilities and a thoughtful set of measures for assessing school effectiveness and student progress. The following types of mecnanisms operate simultaneously within a system of accountability: (1) political accountability; (2) legal accountability; (3) bureaucratic accountability; (4) professional accountability; and (5) market accountability. Bureaucratic accountability, professional accountability, and market accountability are all currently proposed as strategies for school improvement. Accountability systems need multiple statistical indicatcrs to stimulate and measure school improvement; however, there is little agreement about what those indicators should be, or who should be responsible for determining them. Indicators must go beyord rudimentary output measures such as student test scores and examine the school context. Whether the indicators focus on inputs or outputs, care must be taken to protect the technical quality of the data, to create a level of analydis that isolates within-school differences, and to ensure that across-school comparisons are fair. A list of 29 references is appended. (FMW) Linda Dai ling-Hammond Carol Ascher U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER t ERIC) document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it r Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this docu mem do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or policy |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED334338.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED334339.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
