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Can We Measure What Matters Most? - Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers (Hardcover)
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Can We Measure What Matters Most? - Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers (Hardcover)
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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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