All state education agencies and website addresses
Arizonaís Department of Education provides information on student achievement and other measures of school accountability including Arizonaís Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) http://tusdstats.tusd.k12.az.us/resources/aims/aims9899nonanchoritems/testqreading.pdf. The web site on accountability provides information on AIMS, Stanford 9, Measuring of Academic Progress (MAP), District Achievement Plan (DAP) and School Report Cards http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/default.htm
Californiaís Department of Education provides materials on accountability and assessment for parents to help with pupil promotion and retention. The http://www.cde.ca.gov/psaa/ includes information on the Academic Performance Index (API) and Immediate Intervention and Underperforming Schools Program (II/USP) -- schools planning and implementing comprehensive reforms to improve student achievement.
Illinois School Improvement Website designed to help educators use data driven decisions in their school improvement process, to provide easy access to excellent resources and tools, and to enhance communication among educators, parents, and the business community.
Key
State Education Policies on K-12 Education: 2000: Time & Attendance,
Graduation, Content Standards, Teacher & School Leader Licensure, Student
Assessment. This biennial state policy report gives
50-state tabular information on state education policies in the areas of content
standards, graduation, student assessment, teacher and administrator licensure,
and time and attendance.
Links to all states: education agencies, standards offices, and student assessment offices
North Carolinaís Department of Public
Instruction has information on student accountability http://www.ncpublicschools.org/student_promotion/. The site provides information about the
policy and implementation, parents and the standards, communication resources,
intervention strategies, and personalized education plans on student
accountability.
State
Assessment and Accountability Systems: 50 State Profiles The Consortium for Policy
Research in Education (CPRE) conducted a survey of state assessment and
accountability and collected information on each state, providing brief
summaries of their policies regarding assessment, performance reporting,
accountability, and alignment between their Title I and general state systems of
accountability.
State Education
Accountability Reports and Indicator Reports: Status of Reports across the
Statesó2000. The Council of Chief State School
provides state-by-state information on the types of accountability reports
published annually by states, when they are produced, and the levels at which
statistics are reported.
The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System in Kentucky includes materials for parents, teacher, and the general public. The Office of Assessment and Accountability http://www.kde.state.ky.us/oaa/ implements the state required assessment and accountability system. The Division of Assessment Implementation http://www.kde.state.ky.us/oaa/implement/Default.ASP maintains assessment information databases; communicaes assessment and accountability information to local districts, etc.
The Texas Education Agency, Office of Accountability and Accreditation, has materials for parents, teachers, and general public on accountability evaluations http://www.tea.state.tx.us/account.eval/, and an accountability procedures manual. You also can access accountability ratings for the schools and districts in the state. http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/.
The Office of Educational
Accountability in Wisconsinís Department of Education provides information on standards,
assessment and accountability. The
educational accountability provides reports on school performance http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/spr/. It also
provides links on Wisconsinís School Accountability System http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/oea/acct_sch.html.
Outstanding Resources from
the Regional Education Labs
WestEd
has been designated by the U.S. Department of Education to provide national
leadership in the area of assessment.
WestEd creates resource materials in assessment design and provide
services in the development, implementation, and evaluation of state and local
assessments ó tests that measure the performance of teachers as well as
students.
WestEd also provides links on which programs and projects are
involved with assessment and which resources feature assessment.
Early Childhood & Early Intervention
Family Involvement & Strengthening
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NREL)
translates for educators and community leaders the best research into practical, user-friendly resources and services for the assessment of educational results. It provides an assessment resource library and information on news and upcoming events.
helps educators, human service provider, and parents have the knowledge, skills, and resources to meet the complex needs of children and family. Provides a Parent Information and Resource Center.
-Comprehensive Center Region X:
provides assistance in reforming schools and improving teaching and learning. This program has information on resources and publications http://www.nwrac.org/links/index.html
Discussed School Improvement and provides research that has been done on school improvement.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
(NCREL)
Pathways to School Improvement was designed primarily to help school improvement teams as they progress through the phases of the School Improvement Cycle. The topics included in the Pathways model include Assessment | At-Risk | Curriculum | Early Childhood | Goals and Standards, Governance | Instruction | Integrated Services | Leadership | Learning, Literacy | Math | Parent and Family Involvement | Preservice Education, Professional Development | Safe and Drug-Free, School-to-Work | Science | Technology
-Professional Development: resources look at how to involve staff, parents, community members, and other professionals http://www.ncrel.org/pd/involve.htm
-Needs Assessment: measures both student and staff learning gaps. Has general information about how to collect and use data and also about publications.
-Comprehensive School Reform (CSR): focuses on reorganizing and revitalizing entire schools and provides research and publications http://www.ncrel.org/csri/respub/respub.htm, http://www.ncrel.org/policy/pubs/pdfs/pivol3.pdf , http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pbriefs/98/98-1toc.htm
Pacific Resources for Education & Learning (PREL)
There is a great amount of information on assessment and accountability. It provides articles with research on raising standards, student testing, assessment and evaluation and other resources http://www.prel.org/work/aas/rsc.asp on assessment and accountability.
provides information on comprehensive school reform. It provides research http://www.prel.org/work/sr/rr.asp on comprehensive school reform and also resources for choosing reform models, components of comprehensive reform effort, planning for comprehensive school reform and arrangements with model developers.
Family and
community involvement is a primary contributor to making schools effective. PREL provides research
publications
on family involvement in education and publications on overviews
of parental involvement. Also, it
provides resources on tools for developing parent/family
and community partnerships.
SERVE
Improving Learning through Research & Development
-Assessment, Accountability, and Standards: provices information on What assessment knowledge and skills do teachers need and resources and publications. Also, it provides information on teacher evaluation, training opportunities, and publications that are available. Issues in accountability and evaluation it has information on reducing class size
-School Development & Reform: helps increase school success by providing products, training, technical assistance, and other services that enable school to plan and implement continual, comprehensive school reform programs. Provides links on SERVE Regional Forum on School Improvement and other links.
SEDL has publications on state accountability polices.
Comprehensive School Improvement:
Addressing the Challenges, and Making Assessment Work for Everyone, How
to Build on Student Strengths.
-Connecting Schools With Their Communities: helps the community identify education-related issues and plan strategies for addressing them
Organizing for School Improvement: provides research on Comprehensive School Reform
Laboratory For Student Success
(LSS)
-Community for
Learning: A
comprehensive school reform program developed for Research inhuman Development
and Education that draws from over two decades of research experience on what
makes schools work and what helps students learn.
-Urban
Education: LSS serves as
the lead Regional Educational Laboratory for urban education reform. LSS has developed this program of
cross-disciplinary applied research, development, and dissemination to improve
the development and learning success of children and youth in urban communities.
Provides resources and publications on urban education such as; Urban Education Enhance
Program and much
more.
-Accountability publications
include A Superintendentís Role in the
Age of Accountability and The Houston Independent School
District (HISD)
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
(McREL)
provides educator resources so you may search for information on publication, hot topics etc.
Asking the Right Questions: A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking about School Improvement is designed to help school leaders, particularly principals, think systemically as they examine school improvement issues and make decisions about change.
McREL's Evaluating for Success: An Evaluation Guide for Districts and Schools provides practical information, tips and tools to help evaluate comprehensive school reform. The guide also is useful for schools and districts engaged in comprehensive reform but not necessarily participating in the CSRD program.
-Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration: focuses on reorganizing and revitalizing entire schools, rather than on isolated piecemeal reforms.
Northeast &
Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University (LAB)
-Standards: Provides links for projects within the Standards, Assessment, and Instruction Initiative.
Appalachia
Educational Laboratory (AEL)
-Comprehensive School
Reform has resources on comprehensive school
reform programs, including an emphasis on basic academics and parental
involvement.
-The State of State Education
Accountability includes a publication on state accountability.
-Assessing and
Demonstrating Student Learning