Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education

Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability

ISBN 10: 0309128145 / ISBN 13: 9780309128148

Published by National Academies Press, 2011

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Does rewarding or penalizing students, teachers, or schools contribute to improvements in education? This intriguing question lies at the heart of many programs and policies at the federal and state levels to improve education in the nation?s schools. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education takes a hard look at that question. It examines the affects of test-based incentive programs like No Child Left Behind, high school exit exams, techer perfomance pay, and direct student rewardas. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education lokks across al the available rigorous studies of the wide range of different incentive programs that have been implemented across the country. In reviews and synthesizes the research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. It considers wheters there are particular circumstances in wich test-based incentives may have a positive - or a negative - effect on student learning. For educators, policy makers, and school administrators, Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. For researchers, it identifies the most importnt directions for further research into the complicated issueof incentives and how they work. 220 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309128145
• ISBN 13: 9780309128148
• Binding: Blanda
• Illustrator: No Aplica
• Edition: 0.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo
• Weight: 220 grams
• Book Type: Libro

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Synopsis

In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test-based accountability in education that has been going on for decades. Over time, such accountability systems included ever-stronger incentives to motivate school administrators, teachers, and students to perform better.

Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education reviews and synthesizes relevant research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. The book helps identify circumstances in which test-based incentives may have a positive or a negative impact on student learning and offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. The most important directions for further research are also highlighted.

For the first time, research and theory on incentives from the fields of economics, psychology, and educational measurement have all been pulled together and synthesized. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education will inform people about the motivation of educators and students and inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountability systems. Education researchers, K-12 school administrators and teachers, as well as graduate students studying education policy and educational measurement will use this book to learn more about the motivation of educators and students. Education policy makers at all levels of government will rely on this book to inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountability systems.