Name: Can We Measure What Matters Most?: Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers
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Author: Beach, J. M. ; Labaree, David
ISBN: 9781475862270

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Can We Measure What Matters Most?: Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers

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Physical Book

Author

J. M. Beach

Preface by

David Labaree

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781475862270

Synopsis "Can We Measure What Matters Most?: Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers"

This book examines the idea of educational accountability, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make schools better? Do business management theories and practices make organizations more effective? What if the most widely used management theories and assessment tools don't work? What if educational accountability tools don't actually measure what they're supposed to? What if accountability data isn't valid, or worse, what if it's meaningless? What if administrators don't know how to use accountability tools or correctly analyze the problematic data these tools produce? What if we can't measure, let alone accurately assess, what matters most with teaching or student learning. How is a business-model of economic efficiency supposed to increase the competing, and perhaps mutually exclusive, ends of schooling, such as human development, student learning, personal satisfaction, social mobility, and economic growth? What if students don't learn much in schools? What if schools were never designed to produce student learning? This book will answer these questions with a wide, interdisciplinary range of the latest scientific research.

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