Looks at the challenges of accountability design, addressing such issues as the cultural debate surrounding the definition of standards, how test results are interpreted, and the effects of high-stakes testing.

Product Description: Joan Herman, Pamela Aschbacher, and Lynn Winters offer cogent guidance on the creation and use of alternative measures of student achievement. They present a systemic and iterative process model that links assessment with decisions affecting curriculum and instruction, according to developmental theories of learning and cognition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Offers precise lessons on how to focus the evaluation, identify tracking strategies, manage instrument development and data collection, analyze information, and interpret findings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Labeled A Nation at Risk, Americans are urgently seeking reform in their public school systems. While many promising programs are being developed, they have not yet been validated. The national conference Making Schools Work for Underachieving Minority Students shared the best of what is presently known and deliberated on the implications for research, policy, and practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is at the core of the Program Evaluation Kit. It takes a step-by-step approach to evaluation, using non-technical language to explain procedures to novice evaluators. This edition reflects the current emphasis on continuous evaluation throughout the process of programme development...read more