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Accountability, assessment, and teacher commitment : lessons from Kentucky's reform efforts

Title
Accountability, assessment, and teacher commitment : lessons from Kentucky's reform efforts / edited by Betty Lou Whitford and Ken Jones.
Publication
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Whitford, Betty Lou.
  • Jones, Ken, 1949-
Description
xvi, 267 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series, restructuring and school change
Uniform Title
SUNY series, restructuring and school change
Subject
  • Educational accountability > Kentucky > Case studies
  • Educational tests and measurements > Kentucky > Case studies
  • School improvement programs > Kentucky > Case studies
  • Teachers > Kentucky > Case studies
  • Educational accountability
  • Educational tests and measurements
  • School improvement programs
  • Teachers
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Evaluation
  • Qualitätssteigerung
  • Schule
  • Kentucky
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
1. Kentucky Lesson: How High Stakes School Accountability Undermines a Performance-Based Curriculum Vision / Betty Lou Whitford, Ken Jones 9 -- Part II Inside Schools and Classrooms -- 2. Constructs from the Classroom: A Perspective on Reform / Terry I. Brooks 27 -- 3. A Multi-Age/Multi-Ability Primary Classroom in Action / Christy D. McGee 49 -- 4. "The More Mathematics You Know, the Better Your Life Is Going to Be" / Ken Jones, Betty Lou Whitford 71 -- 5. Teacher Community and Commitment: A Case Study of a High School Social Studies Department / Letitia Hochstrasser Fickel 89 -- 6. Tortuous Journey toward School Reform: A Middle School's Efforts within the Context of a State-Mandated, High-Stakes Accountability System / Jan Calvert, Donna Gaus, Gordon Ruscoe 109 -- 7. Teacher Responses to Rewards and Sanctions: Effects of and Reactions to Kentucky's High-Stakes Accountability Program / Patricia J. Kannapel, Pamelia Coe, Lola Agaard, Beverly D. Moore, Cynthia A. Reeves 127 -- Part III Alternative Approaches to Accountability -- 8. A Teacher Appraisal Invention Process: Developing Commitment to Accountability / Linda Shelor 149 -- 9. View from Maine: Developing Learner-Centered Accountability in a Local Control State / David Ruff, Debra Smith, Lynne Miller 163 -- 10. A New Look at School Accountability / Anne Wheelock 179 -- Part IV Reactions -- 11. State and School Level Accountability Dilemmas / Jon Snyder 201 -- 12. Success Needs Time to Grow / A. Richardson Love Jr. 211 -- 13. Need to Broaden Accountability in Order to Foster Leadership / Marilyn Hohmann 219 -- 14. Reaching All Students: The Real Challenge of Reform / Dick Corbett 225 -- 15. Next Generation of School Accountability / Ken Jones, Betty Lou Whitford 233.
ISBN
  • 0791444090
  • 9780791444092
  • 0791444104
  • 9780791444108
LCCN
99021286
OCLC
  • ocm40862182
  • 40862182
  • SCSB-8905250
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library