Beyond test scores a better way to measure school quality

Presentación del editor: "What makes a school a "good" school? It's hard to say, and our current methods of measuring school quality are crude and often misleading. Parents who face the problem of where to matriculate their children are often left to surf websites that only offer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schneider, Jack, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts [etc.] : Harvard University Press 2017
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Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010563389708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Wrong answer: standardized tests and their limitations
  • Through a glass darkly: how parents and policymakers gauge school quality
  • What really matters: a new framework for school quality
  • But how do we get that kind of information? making use of new tools
  • An information superhighway: making data usable
  • A new accountability: making data matter
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript.