Beyond Test Scores A Better Way to Measure School Quality

Test scores are the go-to metric of policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the best schools. Yet standardized tests are a poor way to measure school performance. Using the diverse urban school district of Somerville MA as a case study, Jack Schneider¿s team developed a new framework to assess educational effectiveness.

Info autore

Jack Schneider is Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he leads the Beyond Test Scores Project. The author most recently of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door (with Jennifer Berkshire), he writes regularly for outlets like The Atlantic and The Nation and cohosts the education policy podcast Have You Heard.

Riassunto

Test scores are the go-to metric of policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the best schools. Yet standardized tests are a poor way to measure school performance. Using the diverse urban school district of Somerville MA as a case study, Jack Schneider’s team developed a new framework to assess educational effectiveness.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jack Schneider
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.08.2017
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9780674976399
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97639-9
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Categorie: Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, EDUCATION / Statistics, Educational strategies & policy, Social research & statistics, Schools, Educational strategies and policy, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Standards (inc Common Core)