EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY By: PRINCESS T. NAVARRO MAED – GENERAL SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY By: PRINCESS T. NAVARRO MAED – GENERAL SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY By: PRINCESS T. NAVARRO MAED – GENERAL SCIENCE 1. _____ T _____ _____ _____ S T A T E 2. _____ _____ H _____ _____ _____ S C H O O L _____ _____ _____ _____ _____N _____ A C C O U N T EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY By: PRINCESS T. NAVARRO MAED – GENERAL SCIENCE Objectives of the Lesson ● ● ● ● Define educational accountability; Explain educational accountability in K to 12 education; Give the significance of standards and assessment in Educational Accountability; and Describe Outcome-Based Educational Accountability What is Educational Accountability - A system that holds students, schools, and districts responsible for academic achievement (Elmore 2002a) . Educational Accountability Focuses on student performance as the measure by which schools and districts will be accountable to states (Elmore et al., 1996). Who Is Accountable? States hold institutions — schools and school districts—accountable for student performance. The locus of accountability is on institutions, not individual students or teachers. Who Is Accountable? Moreover, school-level accountability was designed to encourage teachers to work together to improve instruction, in contrast to programs such as merit pay, which were seen as fostering competition among school staffs (Clotfelter and Ladd, 1996). Accountability systems include a range of mechanisms, from simply requiring schools and districts to report on progress to policy makers and the public, to place consequences For high performance REWARDS For poor performance SANCTIONS • Testing and accountability measures continue to be popular policy prescriptions among decisionmakers. Test results—and the results of non-academic assessments—can provide information that helps identify poorly performing schools, districts, and subgroups. 1. Schools should be held accountable for higher standards of performance. 2. Schools should be provided assistance to build their capacities for delivering improved education. 3. Schools must increase the quality and quantity of their performance outcomes, especially student achievement. Principles of Accountability 1. Schools should be held accountable for higher standards of performance. 2. Schools should be provided assistance to build their capacities for delivering improved education. 3. Schools must increase the quality and quantity of their performance outcomes, especially student achievement. Two main tools being used to hold educators accountable Standards “Standards serve as a basis of educational reform that call for a clear definition of desired outcomes of schooling and a way to measure student success in terms of these outcomes” (National Research Council 2001). Testing To monitor improvement trends and to find out whether interventions such as new standards, curricula, and staff development programs are influencing student performance positively ( Barton, 2001). K to 12 Accountability Accountability in the K-12 school system is focused on holding school districts, schools, and educators responsible for student results. To ensure our high school graduates are well-prepared for higher education and the workforce, setting high expectations for our schools and students. K to 12 Accountability The K–12 accountability movement culminated with the passage of the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, which required all states to test students regularly in core subjects and to evaluate schools based on whether their students were making adequate progress toward achievement. K to 12 Accountability “No Child Left Behind Act 2001” • Requires states to develop and implement standards in reading/ language arts, mathematics, and science • Administer annual assessments connected to the standards • Mandate sanctions for continued poor performance by offering school choice and supplemental service options to students. K to 12 Accountability No Child Left Behind Act 2001: •The law also accentuates equal educational outcomes for all subgroups of students, imposes time-lines for improving student achievement through a requirement for adequate yearly progress (AYP) • Demands added qualifications for teachers • Defines proficiency as test scores in reading and mathematics (Sunderman, Kim, and Orfield, 2005). Educational Accoutability Educational Accoutability K to 12 Accountability ● While schools respond strategically to accountability pressure, they make substantive changes, such as lengthening instructional time and increasing focus on low-performing students who need extra help (Deming et al. 2016; Reback, Rockoff, and Schwartz 2014; Rouse et al. 2013). K to 12 Accountability K to 12 Accountability 1. How accountability interacts with assessments? ● When assessments are aligned with learning goals, accountability systems can motivate classroom instruction to focus on those outcomes (Stecher, Barron, Kaganoff, and Goodwin, 1998). K to 12 Accountability 2. How teachers conduct and use classroom assessment? ● Assessment and instruction interact when teachers collect evidence about student performance and use it to shape their teaching (NRC, 2001a; Shepard, 2000; Black and Wiliam, 1998; Niyogi, 1995). K to 12 Accountability 3. How states and districts use assessments for accountability? ● ● States and districts may use “normreferenced” tests, where a student’s reported score is compared to the scores of other students in some reference population. Over half of the states and some districts use some form of “criterion-referenced” assessments (CCSSO, 1998). Outcome-Based Education Overview An OBE curriculum starts with a clear picture of what is important for students to be able to do, then organizing the curriculum, instruction and assessment to make sure this learning ultimately happens. Outcome-Based Education The four basic principles are (Spady, 1994): 1. Clarity of focus focused on what they want students to know, understand and be able to do. 2. Designing down The curriculum design must start with a clear definition of the intended outcomes that students are to achieve by the end of the program. Outcome-Based Education 3. High expectations should establish high, challenging standards of performance in order to encourage students to engage deeply in what they are learning. 4. Expanded opportunities must strive to provide expanded opportunities for all students. Outcome-Based Education ● • • • Focuses on student learning by: Using learning outcome statements to make explicit what the student is expected to be able to know, understand or do; Providing learning activities which will help the student to reach these outcomes; Assessing the extent to which the student meets these outcomes through the use of explicit assessment criteria. Outcome-Based Education OBE requires lecturers to focus on the outcomes of education rather than merely teaching information. The lecturer will plan all activities around these outcomes. Lecturers: Central to the implementation of the OBE OBE requires lecturers to focus on the outcomes of education rather than merely teaching information. The lecturer will plan all activities around these outcomes Assessment will be on-going Outcome-Based Educational Accountability - Issues • • • Accountability towards students – fulfilling requirements of the curriculum Satisfying needs of industry – unemployed graduates Maintaining academic standards – unaccredited programmes Outcome-Based Educational Accountability - Issues • Accountable to grant providing organizations – stakeholders • Accreditation – outcome based education. It should contribute to the objective of improving student’s learning. Since in OBE, there is a need first to establish a clear vision of what the students are expected to learn (desired learning outcome) , then assessment become an embedded part of the system. Testing, Teaching, & Learning Elmore & Rothman (1999), NRC 1994 Goals 2000: vision of coherent capacity building 1994 ESEA set forth an incentives theory of change – assumed that with . sufficient motivation, teachers and other school personnel would find Thank You! CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo, including icons by Flaticon, and infographics & images by Freepik. —SOMEONE FAMOUS “This is a quote, words full of wisdom that someone important said and can make the reader get inspired.” References :"6 Assessment and Accountability in the Education System." ● ● ● ● National Research Council. 2002. Investigating the Influence of Standards: A Framework for Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10023. 7 Accountability." National Research Council. 1999. Testing, Teaching, and Learning: A Guide for States and School Districts. 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