Can We Measure What Matters Most?

Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvJ. M. Beach

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This book examines the idea of educational accountability, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make schools better? Do business management theories and practices make organizations more effective? What if the most widely used management theories and assessment tools don’t work? What if educational accountability tools don’t actually measure what they’re supposed to? What if accountability data isn’t valid, or worse, what if it’s meaningless? What if administrators don’t know how to use accountability tools or correctly analyze the problematic data these tools produce? What if we can’t measure, let alone accurately assess, what matters most with teaching or student learning. How is a business-model of economic efficiency supposed to increase the competing, and perhaps mutually exclusive, ends of schooling, such as human development, student learning, personal satisfaction, social mobility, and economic growth? What if students don’t learn much in schools? What if schools were never designed to produce student learning? This book will answer these questions with a wide, interdisciplinary range of the latest scientific research.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-09-30
Mått154 x 231 x 16 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareLabaree,David
ISBN9781475862287

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ForewordPreface: We Aren’t Measuring What Matters MostIntroduction: Investigating the Myths of Measurement the Management of SchoolsChapter 1: A Different Kind of Reform: The Neoliberal Gospel of EducationChapter 2: Getting Our Money’s Worth: A Short History of Accountability Movement in the U.S.Chapter 3: What Do Grades Measure? Investigating Grades as an Accountability MetricChapter 4: Education as a Social Practice: The Foundations of Teaching and LearningChapter 5: Nurture and Nature: The Complex Ecology of Student Learning (On What Teachers Can and Cannot Do…)Chapter 6: A Managerial Coup d’étatConclusion: Can We De-School Our Schools?Epilogue: Learning to Learn: Revising the Liberal ArtsPreview: Volume 2: The Myths of Measurement and Meritocracy: Why Accountability Metrics in Higher Education are Unfair and Increase InequalityReferencesIndexAbout the Author

In his two new books, Beach delivers a two-part assault on the logic of using measurement-based accountability regiments to reform educational systems. In Part 1, Can we Measure, Beach expertly excoriates the accountability movement that has dominated our k-12 public schooling system for decades showing how it has dismantled student learning and teacher morale. Although the chorus of accountability critics has grown louder and stronger over time, Beach’s interdisciplinary approach involving the lessons from history, philosophy, management, measurement, learning theories, motivation, and higher education makes a uniquely powerful contribution to the school reform debate.