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

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	J. M. Beach
Foreword by:	David Labaree
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-4758-6227-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4758-6227-X
Barcode:	9781475862270

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