Product Description: This report provides guidelines to promote thoughtful development of practical, high-quality measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies that practitioners and policymakers can use to improve valued outcomes for students.

Product Description: Little has been written about the interaction of the No Child Left Behind Act with external audiences that have no formal connections with the schools. This study focuses on print journalists and foundation program officers, who frequently use data from schools and districts in their work...read more

Product Description: Clarifies the primary questions raised by the use of valueadded models for measuring teacher effects, reviews the most important recent applications of VAM, and discusses statistical and measurement issues assoicated with VAM.

Product Description: Examining the state of the art in achievement testing and how testing and accountabiltiy can be used most effectively to promote positive educational outcomes.