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1 online resource (xii, 117 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test-based accountability in education that has been going on for decades. Over time, such accountability systems included ever-stronger incentives to motivate school administrators, teachers, and students to perform better. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education reviews and synthesizes relevant research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. The book helps identify circumstances in which test-based incentives may have a positive or a negative impact on student learning and offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. The most important directions for further research are also highlighted"--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Basic Research on Incentives -- Tests as Performance Measures -- Evidence on the Use of Test-Based Incentives -- Recommendations for Policy and Research. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Educational accountability -- Government policy -- United States.
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Educational accountability. |
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Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Education -- United States.
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Education. |
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Public schools -- United States.
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Public schools. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hout, Michael.
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Elliott, Stuart W.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Published also in print: Incentives and test-based accountability in education. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011 9780309128148 (OCoLC)731911073 |
| ISBN |
9780309128155 (electronic book) |
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0309128153 (electronic book) |
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0309128145 |
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9780309128148 |
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