03169cam a22003378i 4500 BJBSDDR 20251113121204.0 ta 170206s2017 mau b 001 0 eng c 9780674976399 (cloth) 0674976398 (cloth) eng DLC eng LA 217.2 S359b 2017 370.11 Schneider, Jack (Writer on education) 45974 Beyond test scores : a better way to measure school quality / Jack Schneider. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 326 pages ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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 one or two metrics by which to measure school accomplishment. Or they ask around among neighbors, work colleagues, and so on; the problem, of course, is that nearly everyone thinks the school their children attend is a "good" school. Lawmakers and education reformers review spreadsheets containing data that only confirm what we already know: high average test scores, the metric most often used to indicate school quality, are merely a reflection of the socioeconomic status of students who attend the school. But which schools improve scores the most? Which are best at protecting kids from bullying and harassment? Which schools are best at science, at the arts? Which schools are best at preparing underserved groups for college and the job market? None of the metrics for school quality that are currently widely available are helpful at answering these questions. Schneider led a team of researchers who asked people what they thought made for a good school. The answers they provided sometimes aligned with the measures policymakers and researchers have deemed important--and sometimes not. Then they set out to design a new system for measuring school quality that would allow Americans to figure out which schools were good at doing what and how to hold schools accountable for improving outcomes.-- Provided by publisher Education Aims and objectives United States. Educational accountability United States. Educational tests and measurements United States. Education and state United States. Educación Fines y objetivos Estados Unidos 795 Evaluación educativa Estados Unidos 1271 Mediciones y pruebas educativas Estados Unidos 1692 lcc BK 68072 68072 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 LA 217.2 S359b 2017 00000120368 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK