Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability

Katherine E. Ryan is Associate Professor in the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Her research interests focus on educational evaluation and the intersection of educational accountability issues and high stakes assessment. Lorrie A. Shepard is Professor of Education and the Dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research focuses on psychometrics and the use and misuse of tests in educational settings.

• Preface and Organization of the BookPart I. THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITYChapter 1. Educational Accountability Systems. Robert LinnChapter 2. A Brief History of Accountability Testing: 1965-2007. Lorrie ShepardChapter 3. The Politics of Educational Accountability: Can the Clock be Turned Back? Lorraine McDonnellPart II. EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY: TECHNICAL AND SUBTANTIVE ISSUESChapter 4: Further Steps Toward the Development of an Accountability-Oriented Science of Measurement. Dan KoretzChapter 5: Reliability of Large-Scale Assessment and Accountability Systems. Vonda KiplingerChapter 6: Equating and Linking of Educational Assessments in High-Stakes Accountability Systems. Vonda Kiplinger and Laura HamilitonChapter 7: Standard Setting. Edward HaertelChapter 8: Toward a Normative Understanding of Student Growth. Damian BetenbennerChapter 9: Causes and Effects. Derek Briggs and Ed WileyChapter 10: Fairness Issues and Educational Accountability. Katherine E. RyanPART III: EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY EFFECTSChapter 11: Accountability and Assessment: Is Public Interest in K-12 Education Being Served? Joan HermanChapter 12. A View from the Teacher Trenches: Accountability and the Betrayal of the Standards Vision. Bella RosenbergChapter 13: School Improvement and Educational Accountability. David MillerChapter 14: Enhanced Assessment for School Accountability and Student Improvement. Steven DunbarPart IV FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITYChapter 15: Learning and Assessment in an Accountability Context. Eva BakerChapter 16: Future Directions for Educational Accountability: Notes for a Political Economy of Measurement. Michael Feuer

"The book includes chapters on the context, technical and substantive issues, effects, and future directions of educational accountability, written by a veritable "Who’s Who" in the field of educational measurement…Overall, The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability does an admirable job of distilling the knowledge of many of the nation’s best thinkers in educational measurement, both policy and practice."—William L. Brown, Education Review (May 2009)